The men and women of Blue watch turned up in force as the 2nd half of 1368 Sqn did their trip to the Leamington Fire Station, while the other half used the classrooms at Aylesford School. Turned out to be more exciting than planned after the station got a call-out. People appeared from nowhere jumped in the engines and were out the building within 90s. Reassuring to see professionalism at work within public service and also the sense of teamwork, training, alertness and personal responsibility needed to make it work. As well as some intelligent question and answer at the end, there was some nice time where older cadets chatted to members of the watch about careers and things, as our juniors took photos. Special thanks to Warwickshire Fire & Rescue Service for facilitating the visits to help us as part of our newly named Operation "1368 Goes Forth" (into the community).

Many thanks to the volunteer staff and all the cadets and their families who supported the 1368 Quiz night on Tuesday which raised around £700 for the Sqn. Special thanks also to our neighbours Playbox, for providing their space to a good cause. Advertised as general fundraising event, the underlying intent is to use the money raised to seed and launch a 2 year campaign for a 1368 Squadron 'Minibus/People carrier'. We want to reduce the current and fragile reliance on others' transport. 1368 is a large and vibrant squadron with engaged staff and cadets. By getting a Squadron Operated Vehicle (SOV) and in partnership with other Sqns our vision is that we could be provider rather than taker of transport; able to take more cadets from across the Wing to things like air experience flying at RAF Cosford, and enhance the opportunities for cadets to do expeditions, visit air displays, and attend camps and community duties. Special thanks to team of CI M (love the jacket), Acting P...

Massive thanks to Red Watch for hosting close to half of 1368 Sqn at Warwickshire Fire and Rescue Headquarters on Monday; part of Operation "The Great Escape" where we look to keep the programme exciting, ease pressure on Aylesford School classrooms, and build ties with the local community. They got an insight into how control room operates, and how emergency service call-outs are managed, as well as playing with Fire Engines. An interesting night by all accounts.

60 cadets from 1368 Sqn Air Cadets paraded across two parades on Sunday. Warwick was fixed at 20 cadets and Leamington with 40 cadets; a visual indication of the strength and momentum of the Air Cadets in Warwick and Royal Leamington Spa. Here's some photos from the super-smart 20 cadets that paraded and laid a Wreath at Warwick. This was 1368 Sqn's largest turn-out for Remembrance day in its history with 60 cadets and 6 staff across two parallel events (up from 46 in 2024 and 2023) paying their respects for those that have given their lives in past conflicts. Well done to all the cadets and the hard work they put in getting their uniforms up to expected standards; representing the youth of today with pride. Let's hope that the necessary maintenance is carried out, so we get our joint cadet centre with the army cadets back soon.

60 cadets from 1368 Sqn Air Cadets paraded across two parades on Sunday. Warwick was fixed at 20 cadets and Leamington with 40 cadets; a visual indication of the strength and momentum of the Air Cadets in Warwick and Royal Leamington Spa. Our newbies did the Sqn proud with amazing work despite limited time due to building still being closed. We also had a cadet play in the Sea Cadet band for the first time. Our ex-1368 OC and Civ Comm chairman was able to join us on the return march past in Leamington as 1368 Sqn Air Cadets paid respects in memory to those who've lost their lives in past conflicts in World War I && II and more recent conflicts. These are some of the pictures from various sources. 

3 weeks now with no work done on building by RFCA and VIVO. However, amazing work by NCOs and Cadets trying to get uniforms and drill level ready for Remembrance Parades. We also saw plenty peer revision this week. We have an unusually high number of mids doing GCSE's this year. Many thanks to Aylesford School allowing use of classrooms and Chat GPT for all its assistance (more lessons on why AI language models may not always tell the truth and why individual thoughts and creativity are important to come). Nice to see cadets from different schools helping each other though. Fantastic effort by new intake on uniform given problems with building access. Some amazing individual effort noticed. 1368 is not the smallest of Squadrons. Photos are first with 0925 intake in uniform with main cohort.