AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — Three Lakeland High School students who entered and won an Air National Guard essay contest in March were rewarded with a flight on a KC-135.
During the roughly three-hour trip April 26 from Fairchild Air Force Base, students had full run of the plane to do whatever they wanted and watched as air guard pilots refueled a plane from inside the “boombox." They were close enough to see the patches on the other pilots’ uniforms.
“It was one of the best experiences of my life,” said Lakeland student Brent Hill, 17. “Not a lot of people get to do that, and it was really great.”
Brent, a junior, and seniors Ty Gilbert, who just got her pilot's license, and Katrina Evans, who is a mechanic at the Coeur d’Alene Airport, submitted essays to board the flight. They could also nominate staff members from their school to fly with them, so the students brought armed guard John Hatcher, industrial technology teacher Corey Pettit, who was nominated by two students, and college and career advisor Carrie Paquette on the flight.
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