Coast Guard Gives Last Flight To Boy Scouts

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Coast Guard Gives Last Flight To Boy Scouts

 

 

 

Jun 8, 2008 12:10 am US/Pacific

John Iander

 

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) ― It may be the best field trip ever for some lucky Boy Scouts, but it's a trip that's also coming to an end.

 

Early on a recent Saturday morning about two dozen excited Boy Scouts from Sacramento's Troop 144 arrived at McClellan Airpark. They enjoyed an adventure that may change their lives.

 

These scouts are getting a close-up look at a Coast Guard C-130 Search and Rescue aircraft. Pilot Lieutenant Randall Black and the Coast Guard crew took the Scouts on an orientation flight.

 

But because of budgets and a new federal polic[y], this is the last orientation flight the Coast Guard can give the Scouts.

 

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Just a note:

 

I wasn't allowed an orientation helicopter flight in the Army until I was on ROTC scholarship. That was in 1975-76 (my sophomore in college) school year.

 

This is return to an older policy. No more, no less.