Page 8 - Cadet Review Spring 2023

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POTTED FACTS ON THE CADETS APPOINTED TO THEIR NEW POSITIONS INCLUDE...
CSM ASHANTI HOLDEN has participated in various activities and programmes. These include the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Battlefield Tours, Sports Competitions, voluntary work, and Remembrance parades to name but a few. During this time she has developed her leadership skills and is a far more confident person than she was before joining. These skills have helped her, not only within the cadets, but also in her day-to-day life.
SERGEANT HAILEE REA-CROSSLEY had the opportunity, in 2019, to attend a weeklong STEM course where she was able to learn about the roles in the engineering side of the army- which she found very intriguing. This course helped her to foresee her future by leading to taking an engineering course in college, with the aim of to eventually joining the army as an engineer.
SERGEANT FLORENCE SHAW has had the opportunity to go on many trips to lots of amazing places. The Cadet Centre for Adventure Training (CCAT) has been a huge factor in contributing to these experiences. She completed a basic kayaking course in Scotland in 2021 which started with a very long train journey but ended with having a new set of friends and a new found love for kayaking. In 2022 she went to Capel Curing on a rock climbing trip and fought her fear of heights. But her most memorable trip is a Kayaking trip to France in May 2022. She kayaked down grade 2/3 rapids and had the most memorable time in a foreign country with new people and again gaining more skills to add to her repertoire.
ABLE CADET POLLY WHYLEY aspires to attend Peer Educator and Seamanship Cadet Instructor courses so that she can begin to teach in her unit. This is because her loyalty to the unit means she believes it is her duty to help the unit as it has helped her and to assist the staff who have been so instrumental in helping her development as a cadet.
FLIGHT SERGEANT (NOW CADET WARRANT OFFICER) SAMANTHA CREBBIN has been supporting cadets through virtual experiences and
is also a flight staff cadet with 645 Volunteer Gliding School. Her passion for flying was boosted even further in March 2022 when she was successful in winning an Air Cadet Pilot Scholarship. This resulted in her first solo flight on 22 March, an experience she will never forget.
SERGEANT HANNAH WARDMAN was at home
in Gibraltar during the first lockdown, and was desperate to put her cadet community spirit to good use, so she became involved in a community restoration project, restoring the guns of Gibraltar. She volunteered for many hours cleaning and painting alongside other locals and found it very
When she has the chance she would love to come back to the Army Cadet Force as an adult and become a detachment commander 'so I can inspire
the new generation the way my adults have inspired me'
fulfilling to be doing something positive during such an awful time.
ABLE CADET KEILAN BLADES sat his GCSE exami- nations last year and has moved forward onto college where he is studying Motor Vehicle Technology and Motorsports Level 2 course. Outside of the Sea Cadets his next biggest love is Formula One. He
went to Silverstone last year to watch the Grand Prix and was like a kid in a sweet shop! He is hoping that one day he will be the one in the Pit Stop Area maintaining a race car.
CADET SERGEANT PIPER NOBLE intends in the future to join QPD Forces Preparation College and join the military. She is unsure in the direction she wishes to go yet but still has time to figure this
out. When she has the chance she would love to come back to the Army Cadet Force as an adult and become a detachment commander 'so I can inspire the new generation the way my adults have inspired me'. In the near future, she aims to become a Staff Sergeant at cadets and strive to help everyone around her be the best that they can be.
CADET WARRANT OFFICER KIAN WATKINS found that he loved instructing, having the ability to pass on everything he had learnt and hopefully inspiring the next generation of cadets. This has led to him completing the Cadet Drill Course, the Method of Instruction course and also the Qualified Aerospace Instructors Course, one of the highlights of his cadet career. After a tough selection process, 40 cadets from across the UK were selected to undergo 6 months of aerospace training, culminating in
a graduation week at RAFC Cranwell. Whilst the course was tough, it was the people that certainly made it an incredible time.
CADET CORPORAL REUBAN HUGHES, as part of the Royal Marine Cadets has done many amazing things that have helped him focus on his goals and built up his confidence from participating on the annual summer camps both learning about new and interesting things to do with the Royal Marines, to participating in drill competitions and recently going on board the training ship Jack Petchey, one of the offshore cadet training vessels gaining his offshore seaman qualification.
CADET SERGEANT HARVEY VARAZINSKIS has climbed mountains in Wales, cycled the Coast to Coast for Charity, attended drill competitions and completed his silver DofE, which is only a fraction of what he has been able to do in the Air Cadets.
FLIGHT SERGEANT ALEXANDER WILSON has served the community in many ways, one way is that most weekends he volunteers at his gliding club in between flying. This involves moving aircraft, running
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