A LEGISLATIVE COMMEMORATION,  Congratulating and commending Cadet Colonel Susanna Brazil Marking for receiving the General Carl A. Spaatz Award.

     WHEREAS,  Susanna Brazil Marking is the 1,614^th recipient of the General Carl A. Spaatz Award, the first female cadet in South Dakota history to earn this prestigious award, and the first Spaatz Award recipient in the South Dakota Wing in more than eighteen years; and

     WHEREAS,  Cadet Marking serves as the South Dakota Wing Cadet Drill Team Commander; the chairperson of the North Central Region Cadet Advisory Council; and is an active member of the National Cadet Advisory Council; and

     WHEREAS,  Cadet Marking has served as the Cadet Commander of the Joint Dakota Cadet Leadership Encampment and as a representative of South Dakota and the United States as an ambassador in the International Air Cadet Exchange:

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT COMMEMORATED,  by the Eighty-second Legislature of the State of South Dakota, that Cadet Colonel Susanna Brazil Marking be congratulated and commended for being an outstanding student leader and an example of the best of South Dakota.