FORMER
CADET
UPDATES
2008
Private Kenneth Bradford joined the Marines the 28th April 2008 and came to visit the Squadron on the 29th of July 2008 after boot camp. During his last days as being Cadet Second Lieutenant Kenneth Bradford he attended the Lutz Relay for Life with the Cadets. It was wonderful to hear how much he enjoys the Marine's.
Our Squadron was fortunate enough to have two people come to our meeting on the 24th June 2008. Jared Baxley is a former Cadet that has just graduated from the Air Force Academy and spent a year on the Air Force base in Tallahassee. After graduation he applied for flight school. The Flight School chooses first from the Air Force Academy and then other branches of service. Over four hundred graduates from Air Force Academy will attend flight school.
During his visit to the Squadron he spoke of the Academy and stated that he will
soon going to Texas for pilot school. He
will be learning to fly the T6 and it has only been a short six years since he
left. Jared said, “Civil Air
Patrol helped him in the Academy and in basic training.”
Jared loved playing for the junior varsity football team the first year
and played Varsity team Jersey #26 until he graduated.
Jared was home schooled, but attended Chamberlain High School during his
last years school and played football for the Chamberlain Chiefs and won the
State of Florida Academic Achievement Award.
Jared joined the Squadron when he was 13 and achieved the rank of
Cadet Captain after completing the Amelia Earhart Award at the age of 18 he
joined the Academy. Jared also
received the Brewer Award for Aerospace. We
loved having him visit our Squadron again and we wish him the best in flight
school.
Benjamin Turinsky in the Army
Pvt. Aaron Polster is stationed at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii --25th Infantry
CJ and Kirsten Rivenbark were married and December 2006. CJ attended College at Harding University and Graduated with degrees of Bachelor of Science with a Physics minor and Bachelor of Science in Public Administration on 10th of May 2008.
I am a pilot in a NH-90 helicopter (aka "Big Baby), and loving it. I have been in the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) now for 3 years, and have been stationed in both Iraq and Kosovo. I have changed my mind though about moving to Australia to take criminal justice courses to be a police officer there, although sometime in the future I may still do that, but as of right now I am happy with being a pilot here in Germany. I lived in Florida for 13 years and was in Civil Air Patrol in Lutz for about 2 years before moving. I'd like to go visit the Squad again where I was at just to really say hello and maybe share some of my experiences in the Air Force to everyone there, to give something back to the Squad, just like they did to me. All of my other friends, I'd like to meet them again as well, haven't seen them in a few years now and it's been pretty tough.
We Hope To Hear From More Of Our Former Cadets Soon.