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Survey - Vernon Explorer Post 800 Alumni Question Analysis 
Below are the results to date of the survey. Listed are the number of individuals who answered the particular question and the percentage of those individuals who selected that answer.
 
Total number of responses: 14
# Responses Percent
1.
On a scale from 1 to 5, 5 being the highest, what degree of impact did the Explorer Post have on your life?
   No response 0 0%
   1 - No Influence 0 0%
   2 0 0%
   3 1 7.14%
   4 4 28.57%
   5 - Major Impact 9 64.29%
 
2.
What degree of influence did the Explorer Post have on your career ?
   No response 0 0%
   1 - No Influence 2 14.29%
   2 2 14.29%
   3 1 7.14%
   4 4 28.57%
   5 - The Explorer Post was very much an influence in my career. 5 35.71%
 
8.
Would you be willing to support an officially formed Alumni group?
   No response 0 0%
   Yes 9 64.29%
   No 0 0%
  
Survey - Vernon Explorer Post 800 Alumni

Free Form Text Answers
 
The questions which asked only for free form text answers are listed below, along with the answers they received.
 
3. Did you develop any friendships from the Post ?
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Yes. 90% of my friends are from the Post, including my best friend.
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Yes
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Yes I did, I am still good friends with a few people I met while in the post.
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Yes
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Yes.
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yes
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yes
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yes - some good, some bad
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I am lucky to still have many of the friends that I met in the post which was more than 20 years ago
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yes
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yes
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many lasting
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Yes. Most definetly.
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yes
 
4. What was the highest Rank in the post you obtained ?
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LT
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Captain
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Lieutenant
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LT
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Sergeant or Lt., can't remember.
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exploer
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LT
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captain - for a week !
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sgt
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captain
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Lieutenant
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Capt
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sgt
 
5. What years were you in the Post ?
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1970-1978
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1981 to 1984
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1980 - 1987
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1978-1985
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I think around 74 to 76
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77-78or79
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72-80
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1973 - 1978
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1979 1982
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1973-1977
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75-79
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1973-1980
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1970-1974
 
6. Use this space for any comments you'd like to make.
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Let's go forward
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we need to get together other than when bad things occur (Jack or Mel's Kids)
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Not enough room to explain how the post impacted my life, but it was mostly very positive.
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Led to career as Local cop, then Fed Agent.
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Learned alot about police work
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It gave me direction and disapline
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They were some of the best times that I ever had!
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i have seen and heard alot of neg.stuff this year,just losing interest.
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This rag-tag bunch came from different walks of life. My sucess in the Military & PD highly influenc
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Have a fund raiser dinner every 18 months
 
7. Should we have an Alumni gathering in 2004 ? If so, what do you recommend ?
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Yes. Something this fall maybe.
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I would like it, but money is very tight right now and for the next 5 years.
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Yes. I have planned a few in the past. Maybe a day with kids and adults only at night.
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yes, no idea
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Probably can't make it. I'm in Miami.
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yes ?
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I would love to see eveyone now is as good as anytime
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yes,same as 2003
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no
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yes
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Yes. In Portland Oregon.
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no, 2005
 
9. In regards to question 8, how much would you be willing to pay for annual support ?
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Maybe up to $50 per year.
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See answer to number 7.
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Depends on membership, what we would do, what it would go for, and I am cheap.
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$50.00
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I dunno, maybe $25?
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Maybe a dollar, or so ....
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whatever it takes
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$20.00
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20.00
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$50.00
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yes
 
10. In regards to question 8, would you be to be a founding member or serve on the official Alumni committee ?
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Yes.
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Not sure
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Sure.
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Prefer not to - Don't have the time
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Don't know what that would entail, but maybe.
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Would you want me to be on the committee? lol
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Since I live far away I would do whatever I could with that in mind
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maybe
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not at this time
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yes
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Yes, you dont have to ask this question.
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yes

This survey was taken summer of 2004 with approximately 40 members polled.