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Cadets under
Canvas
How Beccles Air Cadets have spent their summer
Cadets from Beccles Squadron
have recently returned from a series of camps at home and abroad.
Summer camp was held at RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, a front line fighter
base. Ten Cadets and two staff enjoyed a busy week of activities,
including simulator flying, night exercises, drill, shooting, ten-pin
bowling, visits to local air museums and the Battle of Britain Memorial
Flight, based at Coningsby. During the camp, Sergeant Trevor
Thurston won the Best NCO award, with Sgt Johnny Firth-Clark a close
second. Cadet James Organ was judged Best Cadet, and Cadet Laurie
Reynolds, Best Newcomer. The camp is designed to show Cadets what
life on a working RAF station is like, and to give them the chance to try
new and exiting activities. Cadet James Organ commented that it was
“a fun-filled week, packed with many exiting activities.”
Five Cadets spent a week at an adventure training camp in a Dorset Army
base, where they went power-boating, scuba diving, karting, mountain
biking, and visited a water park. They tackled an assault course,
took part in field-craft exercises, and undertook swimming tests, where
all five passed their Intermediate Swimming Award.
Sergeants Chloe Bridge and Louise Vincent spent a hectic eight days at
Rheindahlen airbase in Germany, visiting sections of the base and the
historic local area. For Chloe, 17, of Beccles, it was her second
visit to Germany this summer with the Air Cadets, having taken part in a
pilot camp at the huge American airbase at Ramstein a few weeks
earlier. She said of her latest visit, “the camp was really fun and
I enjoyed visiting Cologne and sampling German culture.”
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