[PAO] "Freshman receives national award from Civil Air Patrol"

Thu Sep 12 14:51:36 CDT 2013

Here's an AF Academy story about a CAP cadet worth sharing!
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Steven

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by Don Branum
Air Force Academy Public Affairs

9/12/2013 - *U.S. AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo.* -- It's a bit easier to spot
Cadet 4th Class Sara Fishbein these days: She's the one with a brand new
feather in her cap.

The Civil Air Patrol recently named Fishbein, a native of Dayton, Ohio, the
top CAP cadet in the nation.

"I found out during Basic (Cadet Training)," Fishbein said. "I found out as
soon as I got back from basic that CAP had coordinated with the Academy and
was actually going to let me travel to the event."

Fishbein joined the CAP when she was 13 because she believed the Air Force
Academy considered CAP experience on applications, she said.

"I ended up completely falling in love with the program," she said. "CAP
kept me really focused and headed in the right direction."

Retired Gen. Stephen Lorenz, a 1973 Academy graduate and head of the USAFA
Endowment, was the guest speaker at the award ceremony. Several other
Academy alumni also attended.

"It was my first time talking to Academy graduates outside of the Academy
since coming here," Fishbein said. "It was really neat, seeing where I
could potentially be in 10 or 15 years."

She said highlights of her CAP experience included a trip to Australia for
an International Air Cadet Exchange and a Pararescue orientation course at
Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.

"I got the chance to meet (Defense Secretary) Leon Panetta when he was the
director of the CIA ... just a number of super-cool opportunities," she
said. "But I also spent a lot of time in my local squadron and worked
through some of the leadership positions there."

Those leadership positions prepared Fishbein to take an active role in her
squadron, said Lt. Col. DeAnna Franks, air officer commanding for Cadet
Squadron 17.

"In a very short time, Fishbein has set the bar high for all four degrees
in CS 17 and other squadrons in the wing," Franks said. "Her impressive
Civil Air Patrol background and her experience attending a preparatory
school comes across in her every move in squadron military training,
inspections and physical tests. I'm excited to see where her future Air
Force journey takes her."

Fishbein keeps in touch with her former squadron-mates, many of whom are
active-duty Airmen now, she said.

"Some are in ROTC, some are here and at the other military academies, and
some are kicking butt in the civilian world," she added.

She said she plans to continue her involvement with CAP. The Air Academy
Cadet Squadron meets regularly on base.

"If I'm a pilot, it'll be pretty tricky to have any kind of significant
involvement for a few years," she said. "But it was an extremely invaluable
program to me. I know I was super grateful to all the mentors I had,
especially the ones from the Air Force and the Academy. I would pick their
brains on everything ... they answered a lot of questions for me and
provided good examples."

Nominees for the cadet of the year award are first selected to compete at
the squadron level. Squadron selectees compete through 52 CAP wings, then
in one of eight geographic regions. Those eight finalists meet a national
review panel.

CAP provides roughly 10 percent of the Academy's cadets, according to the
organization's fact sheet. It conducts roughly 90 percent of Air Force
search-and-rescue operations within the U.S. and offers orientation flights
in both powered and glider aircraft. CAP is open to anyone 12 years old and
older. More information on the Air Academy Cadet Squadron is available at
http://bit.ly/15kW94o.
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