Ex-AFB jet getting extreme makeover, courtesy of CAP cadet

SOUTH CAROLINA -- A Boy Scout/Civil Air Patrol cadet who wants to one day fly with the Marines is now hard at work on the ground, working to restore an old Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star at the Darlington County Airport. Frankie Slemmer says he hopes to give the jet, a 1954-vintage, two-seat trainer, a complete makeover, restoring it to the condition it was in when it flew out of Shaw Air Force Base, in nearby Sumter, S.C. The restoration effort is part of Slemmer's Eagle Scout project.