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SWY Wing ATC
PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD
At 2490 (Spen Valley) Squadron, we love making memories, and we love capturing them too. It seems to have fallen out of fashion for some – but at Spen Valley, every year we love having a group photograph, so that all the cadets can remember their friends of the squadron for many years to come.
Here they are so far this year, in both sports kit and blue RAF uniform - don't they look smart, bless them! We're on a mission to get every Air Cadet Squadron to bring back group photographs - so get your cameras and tripods out and capture those memories!
Gold Award
Presented
By CI Kira Thompson
During the summer CI Anna Zhang attended Buckingham Palace where she was recognised with the Gold Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, following an address by His Royal Highness Prince Edward.
She enjoyed a few days in London celebrating her success along with her Mother.
Throughout Anna’s cadet career, she completed her Bronze, Silver and as a staff member, has now gone on to completing her Gold.
Huge congratulations for all her hard work over the years to get to this point. Well done Anna, great work and a great role model to our younger cadets to show what you can achieve if you keep at it.
Anna said “It is hard overall but take it one step at
a time and go for it.
People are here to
support you and it's
worth it in the end.
I'm so proud of myself
for doing it and
encourage
everyone else to
give it their best
shot too. I was
also pleased
to meet Nina
Wadia and
Ore Oduba
during the
event”.
Promotion Joy at Spen Valley
The Squadron has a new event to celebrate, something which has not happened on
our unit for at least the last 15 years...
We now have a Cadet Warrant Officer!
Our eldest NCO, having experienced many years at the squadron, undertook a Wing Board where he successfully completed an interview, in
order to achieve the top rank
promotion available to cadets.
Here is our new CWO Jamie Owen being presented with his new rank slides by Wing Commander Brian Daniel.
Big congratulations from everyone at 2490 (Spen Valley) Squadron!
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