Congratulations to Cadet Captain Cailey Stolt, who was presented the 2022 Thomas Hudner Scholarship of Honor at this year’s Wisconsin Wing Conference.
C/Capt Stolt will be pursuing a nursing degree from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire. She stated, "I am grateful to have received this scholarship and represent Thomas Hudner and his legacy."
Presenting the scholarship were Lt Col Stephen Kohler & Col Denese Helgeland
The scholarship is in honor of Thomas Hudner, a fighter pilot in the Korean War, who routinely completed his missions by air. But in a dramatic rescue attempt of a fellow pilot, Hudner executed a wheels-up landing in enemy territory and found himself battling the elements on the ground. The snow and cold of December 1950 in North Korea found Hudner thinking not of himself or the enemy, but of one fellow Navy pilot, Ensign Jesse Brown, the Navy’s first African American aviator.
President Truman awarded Thomas Hudner the Congressional Medal of Honor on April 13, 1951 for his courageous actions.
This year’s scholarship is sponsored by Mary and retired Navy Captain Thomas Hennessey.
