From right, Lakeland High School's career advisor Carrie Paquette, Air National Guard recruiter Emily Hanson, senior Ty Gilbert, senior Katrina Evans, student resource officer John Hatcher, junior Brent Hill and instructor Corey Pettit are guests on an Air National Guard refueling flight April 26.
May 3, 2023
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During a roughly 3 hour flight from Fairchild Air Force Base, Lakeland High School students had full range of a KC-135 plane to do whatever they wanted, and watched as air guard pilots refueled a plane from inside the “boombox”, where they were close enough to see the patches on the other pilots’ uniforms.