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Creekview High Students told of Firefighter's Deployment to Afghanistan

CTV STAFF
Thursday, October 02, 2008

Babette Davis at Creekview High

Cherokee County Fire and Emergency Services Fire Safety Educator Babette Davis visited a classroom at Creekview High School on Monday to talk about her husband's deployment to Afghanistan.

After Babette Davis spoke about her husband Cecil Davis, the students were asked to write a letter to him, said Tim Cavender, spokesman for Cherokee Fire-ES.

Cecil Davis is a Cherokee County firefighter who was first deployed May 31 to Ft. Riley, Kan., where he completed a three-month course to become a certified Combat Advisor, Cavender said. He was assigned to Afghanistan in August to assist U.S. troops as well as train the Afghan army and is also a combat medic, Cavender said.

A Navy veteran who served as a corpsman in Cuba during Desert Storm, Cecil Davis has been in the U.S. Army National Guard for 5 years.

Lisa Kennedy, the teacher who invited Babette Davis to visit her class, instructed her students on how to format a letter to Mr. Davis, Cavender said, adding they were later asked to write a letter to Staff Sgt. Davis as part of their classroom assignment.