Squadron Civil Air Patrol Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Haley Blevins of Lexington Park was recently awarded The Spaatz Association Aerospace Leadership Scholarship at the association’s annual meeting held in Washington, D.C.
The award and meeting are sponsored by the awardees of CAP’s highest cadet achievement award, the Carl A. Spaatz Award. This award has been earned by only 1700 cadets since 1964. Cadet Blevins was one of only six cadets nationwide selected for this prestigious award because of her many accomplishments in Civil Air Patrol Squadrons, Group III, Maryland Wing, and the Middle East Region.
The Award was presented to Blevins by the Brig Gen Mike McClendon, USAF and Col Robert Mattes, USAF. Col Mattes is the chairman of the TSA scholarship committee. Both he and General McClendon are past winners of the Spaatz Award.
Cadet Blevins has been a member of CAP for 6 years. She is a member of the St Mary’s Composite Squadron, and is also Chairperson of the Maryland Wing Cadet Advisory Council. She participated in the International Air Cadet Exchange to England in 2005. She was the project officer for the exchange to Maryland in 2006. She attends Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg and is majoring in Computer Science. She recently soloed and passed the FAA private pilot written test and will use the scholarship to obtain her private pilot’s license.