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Upper Hutt College student Benjamin Eckery takes a cruise in an RNZAF Iroquois during an Air Force Challenge at RNZAF Base Ohakea this week.

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Media Release

11 July 2007

OHAKEA HOSTS AIR FORCE CHALLENGE

High school students from Wellington have joined teens from around New Zealand for an Air Force experience at Ohakea Air Force Base this week.

The event is organised by the Royal New Zealand Air Force and involves 70 Year 12 and 13 students from Dunedin, Christchurch, Wellington and Palmerston North high schools.

The students have given up the second week of their school holidays, July 9 – 13, to fly in military aircraft and talk with airmen and airwomen about what a career in the Air Force may hold

RNZAF recruiting officer Flying Officer Jared Small said the students had expressed interest in an Air Force career through their school careers advisers.

RNZAF recruiting officer Flying Officer Jared Small said the students had expressed interest in an Air Force career through their school careers advisers.

“The Air Force Challenge allows the students to experience what Air Force life is really like. It’s more than just guns, aircraft and parade drills. The experience allows students to view equipment and talk to personnel they may one day be working alongside.”

Last week RNZAF Base Whenuapai held the first leg of the Air Force Challenge for high school students from the upper North Island.

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