1 August 2007
CORPUS CHRISTI - Three Kingsville CAP Cadets Awarded for Encampment Attendance By Major Joe Ely Carrales, CAP Kingsville, Texas- Three Civil Air Patrol cadets from the Corpus Christi Composite Squadron's (CC-CAP) Brahma Cadet Flight were awarded the U. S. Civil Air Patrol's Encampment Ribbon for attending the 2007 Texas Wing Summer Encampment. The awards were presented to Cadet Airman Bryce Nix, Cadet Airman Michael Beal and Cadet Airman Basic Celeste Resendez at the Tuesday 10 July 2007 meeting of the Kingsville Cadet Flight at their CAP Station at Memorial Middle School. The three cadets represented Kingsville and Corpus Christi to the body of CAP cadets gathered for this annual summer activity. This year's encampment was held at Camp Maxey near Paris, Texas from 17-24 June 2007. "An encampment can be the most significant and worthwhile training experience of a CAP cadet's membership," said Major Phyllis Sutton, Director of Cadet Programs for the Texas Wing, "Encampments are memorable experiences that cadets will talk about and cherish the rest of their lives; plus cadets leave encampments motivated about Civil Air Patrol taking back to their units a plethora of knowledge and experience that can be shared and built upon." Such knowledge and skill is be vital to continued growth of the CAP Cadet program in South Texas. "The effort to create a Civil Air Patrol Cadet unit in Kingsville is gaining momentum." Said Major Joe Ely Carrales, CC-CAP Squadron Commander, "it is hoped that more cadets will join the unit over the next school year."

    
Photo Caption: (Left to Right) Major Joe Ely Carrales, CAP stands with Cadets Bryce Nix, Michael Beal and Celeste Resendez at CAP STATION KINGSVILLE. (photo courtesy of Cadet Airman Morgun Bedynek)