Tweet
Re: ANNOUNCING: The 2011 Cavalry Camp of Instruction!!!....
While I was not able to attend the COI, it is certainly on my bucket list. I have followed this thread and enjoyed reading the feedback and it sounds like it was a great experience. I also like Tom's idea about the "grading" of different kits. I like the idea but can see several pit falls. I believe those pit falls can easily be fixed with the right work done in advance and the right people working together. If this is done in the wrong way, you may end up turning more people away then you would attracting or improving. The other issue would be what standard would you be using to grade people. For instance, when you look at original cartridge boxes, you will find some that look like a true artisan put them together with clean lines, very tight stitches, edge dressings, etc vs ones that look like my 9 year old put them together. They are both surviving artifacts, so which is going to be the baseline for the grading of others equipment. You could go with what is in the ordnance manuals but as we have often seen, governments accepted items that may not have been exactly what was described in the manuals. Not to mention the different equipement in the eastern and western theater. If we go back to the cartridge box example, I think there are common connections that can be found in original items that might be used in the grading system, but there may be variations that would have to be acknowledged. By all means I am not denouncing the idea. But, that the folks who would do such a grading system would have to do a lot of pre planning and maybe see it more of a teaching tool then a grading tool.
While I was not able to attend the COI, it is certainly on my bucket list. I have followed this thread and enjoyed reading the feedback and it sounds like it was a great experience. I also like Tom's idea about the "grading" of different kits. I like the idea but can see several pit falls. I believe those pit falls can easily be fixed with the right work done in advance and the right people working together. If this is done in the wrong way, you may end up turning more people away then you would attracting or improving. The other issue would be what standard would you be using to grade people. For instance, when you look at original cartridge boxes, you will find some that look like a true artisan put them together with clean lines, very tight stitches, edge dressings, etc vs ones that look like my 9 year old put them together. They are both surviving artifacts, so which is going to be the baseline for the grading of others equipment. You could go with what is in the ordnance manuals but as we have often seen, governments accepted items that may not have been exactly what was described in the manuals. Not to mention the different equipement in the eastern and western theater. If we go back to the cartridge box example, I think there are common connections that can be found in original items that might be used in the grading system, but there may be variations that would have to be acknowledged. By all means I am not denouncing the idea. But, that the folks who would do such a grading system would have to do a lot of pre planning and maybe see it more of a teaching tool then a grading tool.
Comment