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Four 1368 Cadets attend their DofE Gold Award celebration at Buckingham Palace, 22 May 2026

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Last Friday saw four of our senior 1368 cadets and their guests attend the Royal Palace gardens to celebrate their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award success in the 2025/26 season. They even got to speak with a few famous people, a goal keeper from the past, and bumped into the Commandant of RAFAC/Air Training Corps again.  The sun was shining on them, a great way to celebrate a great achievement. Like their expeditions, something they won't forget. Well done to CWO H, FS R, Sgt F, and Cdt P. The DofE Scheme remains a core pillar of 1368 Squadron, along with Community Duties, Sports, and Drill/Parades/Discipline. Many things cadets do within their two night a week activities can be counted towards the Award, including our focus on sports nights/athletics, leadership and instructional training (all cadets do blue leadership within first 6 months), classification training, marching band and volunteering and service to the community.  We run 7-8 expeditions a year from Initial Exp...

2nd Gnorman Knights of the Domino Pizza Order Award, 18 May 2026

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Cpl K became the first 1368 NCO to be awarded a 2nd night-hood for outstanding NCO-ness (gets to look after the Gnorman hat again). An outstanding job holding the fort with other NCOs away doing GCSEs/A Levels, a period which has seen great success with Review cadets stepping into acting JNCO roles.  Cpl K also took on 0426 intake mgmt and played a big part on regency run success. Only one step away from a coveted 1368 Millennium Falcon medal (not seen since 2024).

Warwickshire Police HQ visits, 13-14 May 2026

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Handcuffs, batons, tasers, cars, police sirens/lights, and dressing up. What's not to like? 😉 Warwickshire Police's youth engagement team did a brilliant couple of nights for us last week to spice things up.  Quite educational (lots of tips for your future Nandos journey). We learnt loads.    Cdt M/Cdt B won the Quiz star prizes (Well done, 15/15 correct answers!).

5 cadets from 1368 Sqn complete their Method-of-Instruction course, 10 May 2026

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All very similar to Enid Blyton but well done to 5 cadets from 1368 Sqn (Cdts P, Cdt B, Cdt G, Cdt B-R and Cdt S-M on their successful completion of stage 1 of the instructor cadet lanyard (Method-of-Instruction training). It's the most we've ever had through one course. Target now is to maintain momentum and support practice lesson planning/delivery before July. Staff can support/give lesson ideas (e.g. we need someone to deliver a lesson on map reading contours).

OC's cadet of the month for Apr 2026, 6 May 2026

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Cdt S-M was OC's COTM for last month. Intelligent leadership & thoughts for others, Great +ve feedback from Wing JNCO course.

Athletics training #4, 6 May 2026

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Felt like a proper training session, i.e. a few feeling the pain on the relay rounds at the end. Some championship winning performances among our cadets, just a question of whether they can turn up for Wing Athletics comp. Commend all the cadets on their Wed efforts.

2 cadets from 1368 Sqn went Gliding at Little Rissington, 3 May 2026

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A scratch place win this one (day before) due to last minute drop-outs (i.e. not part of our normal allocation). Great opportunity for Cdt E (first flight) and Cdt G. A few cadets are getting Av Med 1's signed by parents/sqns. Flying/gliding schools hate not filling places, so it's great we got to fill them thanks to parents able to take-em.