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Air Show Pilot
This years annual Air Show was held at Lackland AFB, where the Civil Air Patrol cadets were amongst many who participated in this event. The Lackland Cadet Squadron was joined by others from the Pegasus Composite, and the newly formed Pipe Creek Squadron. Commander of the 5th Group, Col. Eddy Billman was also on hand to assist in recruiting purposes.


On Saturday many cadets assisted in recruiting others, as well as touring the Air Show grounds. Many aircraft were present such as the Y/F-22 Raptor, MH53 Pavelow, AH60 Blackhawk, KC135 Stratotanker, C5 Galaxy, A10 Warthog, the historically famous Thunderbirds and many more. Different aircraft displays were plentiful, search as the Pearl Harbor reenactment, the Army Golden Knights, Air Force Reserve Rocket car, and a fly-by from the F-117A Nighthawk Stealth Fighter. Later that day the crowds were fascinated as the Thunderbirds displayed their aerial superiority and deafened most everyone. The day concluded with satisfaction by the CAP group, and all returned home to prepare for the next day.

Air Show Group
Sunday morning, with only a few hours left until the close of the Air Show, the Lackland Squadron was out bright and early in full force. The cadets numbered many more than the previous day, and with more cadets, only brought more people to the CAP display.

The Air Show schedule followed Saturdays, but this one was truly different. The cadets were able to meet up with Nicole Malachowski, #3 and the Thunderbird pilot. Major Nicole Malachowski is the first female Thunder Pilot, and the first woman demonstration pilot in any military high performance jet team.

She was also a former CAP cadet from the Cable Composite Squadron based in California where she achieved the grade of Cadet Captain. She expressed words of encouragement for the cadets to reach for there dreams, to continue making good grades, and for all of them to try as hard as they could to obtain the Spartz Award. After sharing a friendly conversation, she also took time to take individual pictures with cadet and sign autographs for them.
 

 
Jet Fighter Model
After visiting with Major Malachowski some cadets returned to their duties. It was then that the Lackland Cadet Squadron unveiled their newly formed Honor Guard Program with performances by C/Amn Daniel Perez and C/1st Lt. Gus Rios. The performance routine consisted of high speed rifle spinning in addition to tossing and step by step maneuvers. The performance brought many more people to the display and ended up with a lot of potential members. During the Thunderbird performance the cadets were preparing to go home when suddenly a call for a ground team mission came. After receiving the call, some cadets prepared and were ready to go within ten minutes with the equipment they had for any possible mission. The mission duration lasted about eight hours, but although unsuccessful in finding the ELT, the group succeeded in eliminating a large part of the San Antonio, and surrounding area which led to another crew finding it the next day.