WHY DID I ENROLL IN JROTC? I was an elementary student when I heard about the JROTC program. My high school friends once told me about it and were encouraging me to join the program. Somewhere along everybody’s life’s‚ one exceeds a sense of leadership and moral standards. It is within and only within this program‚ in which you will find yourself succeeding in most that you do. Until I finally made my way to high school‚ I was known to be a cadet and additionally‚ a student also. As a starter
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GRS81 January‚ 10th‚ 2013 Why Did I Join JROTC Before I enrolled into the JROTC program I considered myself‚ and was considered to be just a normal student. Nothing was special about me‚ and I had just been a face in the crowd. Coming into Fort Hamilton I realized if I ever wanted to go anywhere in this world I’d have to first become a better person‚ JROTC had been the perfect place to go. One of my main reasons for joining JROTC was fist to better myself as a person. JROTC main mission is to “motivate
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I joined Army JROTC because I wanted to be a part of a team thatWhi I Enrolled In JROTC people respect and honor. I also joined JROTC because I think it will help me out later on in my life. My god father served in the military for 4 years. My step father served in the military for 5 years. With them being in the military has gave me some influence to join the military. There are several types of JROTC. There are different
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Since age eleven‚ the military was single handedly the only career field I could possibly fathom myself going into. Upon coming to and registering for Blackman High School‚ joining JROTC was a no brainer. Especially when I learned I could take this class in substitution for gym class. JROTC is more than a class; it is a program all its own and within it are kids with a future. I would like to believe that JROTC is greatly contributing to this and really guiding us as students in the right direction
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Why Did I Enroll In JROTC I enrolled in JROTC mostly because of my family. My dad was in the US Air Force and retired shortly after I was born‚ my oldest brother joined the US Navy about 2-3 years ago and my sister joined the early entry program for the US Navy and is going to boot camp in July‚ my brother was practically born to join the US Marines‚ and 3 of my 4 brothers have been or are in JROTC. It was only natural and the sane thing to do that I joined JROTC because we are practically a
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FL Why did I enroll in Jrotc? If you were in middle school and you see some crazy guy in uniform screaming would you choose that class or not? I chose that class because I didn’t want to be as every other high school student and just show up for 4years and then graduate. But the real reason that I enrolled in JROTC was because I want to be different than every high school student and you learn how to become a leader. To begin with‚ the first reason that I enrolled in JROTC was because I want
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Training Corp (JROTC) in schools students can gain life changing experiences. The National Defense Act of 1916 allowed the JROTC program to be established in the United States. Active duty military personnel were given the equipment needed to run the program in a high school (Army ROTC par. 1). In the Title Ten of the U.S. Code it states “it is a purpose of the Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to instill in students in the United States secondary educational institutions
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How JROTC Builds Character and Leadership. JROTC is designed to motivate young people to become better citizens. It teaches a newer and higher standard of life. Character is a big part in the JROTC mission‚ in order to become a better citizen you have to build strong character. To help young people build stronger character JROTC places them in complicated situations and in Leadership Positions that are designed to encourage the need to take charge and lead the group in the right direction. Junior
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JROTC is more than a connection to the armed forces. In fact‚ that’s not what it’s founded on at all. According to James M. Hale‚ Area Ten Commander of ROTC‚ the program focuses on service. It’s not merely a pipeline to the military; students join for a multitude of reasons. “I didn’t know about it in middle school”‚ freshman‚ Mathew Cha‚ Petty Officer Second Class said. “I figured it out when I was filling out [schedule information]. My sister was like ‘Hey try JROTC for a year.’ and I thought
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Adonte’ YearwoodJamuary 20‚ 2012 Jrotc1SG Frett7th Period JROTC Builds Character and Leadership The JROTC (Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps) is an Army ran cadet program established by the National Defense act in 1916 starting with just six units. Since then this program has flourished and now has over 1‚000 units in schools and colleges throughout the nation with more than 274‚000 cadets enrolled. The main purpose of JROTC is not to prepare cadets for the military‚ but to instill certain
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