CONWAY, Ark. — Fifteen cadets endured 18 grueling weeks of training and completed all the necessary tests to be accepted as new game wardens for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission during a ceremony Sept. 19 at Antioch Baptist Church.
An 83 percent graduation rate for the class from where it began, with 18 prospective game wardens, was excellent news to Lt. Tracey Blake, the AGFC’s assistant training administrator, who led Friday’s ceremony.
“It is a pretty good return, considering especially last year when we started with 16 and only graduated seven. But I told them this week, ‘You’re a committed group.’ That’s why there’s 15 graduating, and that’s going to take them a long ways in their career, being committed to the agency and the job,” Blake said…