Youth cadets with Civil Air Patrol praise program’s influence during Capitol Hill visit

March 6, 2024 at 1:08 p.m.

by Alex Thomas

U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., speaks with cadets of the Arkansas Wing of the Civil Air Patrol in the senator's office. Cadets with the program's 52 wings were in Washington, D.C., last week as part of the Civil Air Patrol's legislative day. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Capt. Kyle Lutgen)
U.S. Sen. John Boozman, R-Ark., speaks with cadets of the Arkansas Wing of the Civil Air Patrol in the senator's office. Cadets with the program's 52 wings were in Washington, D.C., last week as part of the Civil Air Patrol's legislative day. (Special to the Democrat-Gazette/Capt. Kyle Lutgen)

WASHINGTON -- Morgan Crawford's involvement in the Civil Air Patrol began with fulfilling an academic requirement.

As a sixth-grade student at Little Rock's Cloverdale Middle School, Crawford had to take an aerospace education course.

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