Personal Essay: Civil Air Patrol (CAP)

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No longer than 120 eighty-character lines of text (including spaces and blank lines) Describe a setting in which you have collaborated or interacted with people whose experiences and/or beliefs differ from yours. Address your initial feelings, and how those feelings were or were not changed by this experience. Civil Air Patrol (CAP) is a Air Force auxiliary comprised of cadets from the ages of 12-18. Each year every CAP region has what is known as an encampment. This is a week long military style basic training like experience. Encampment induces large amounts of stress through high expectations and high pressure training situations. This brings together a wide range of diverse individuals from several states. You are with your flight at all times. You eat, sleep, and even shower together. The Desert Hawk Encampment was held in the west desert of Utah in the middle of summer with very hot, long, dry, days. This was the encampment I attended This was not an easy experience by any means. I was put in a flight with 9 other cadets who came from very different backgrounds and had extremely …show more content…

I attend the Utah Military Academy. I transferred to this school the first year it was open. This is a JROTC military based school. This public charter school revolves around the military, leadership, character and education. At this school i've been able to push myself mentally and physically. I learned many lessons that I will be able to use in my future career as an officer and as a citizen of the world. At my school I am a Group Commander. In this position I am responsible for over 235 cadets and nine position (i.e. logistics, weapons, security, information, academics, personnel, public affairs, finance, facilities). This position has given me experience in having to understand a situation or position quickly, assessing what needs to be done, and presenting a creative solution in order to complete the

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