Dr. Jaime Aquino, Superintendent of San Antonio Independent School District, shares the following video, which, "Celebrates our employees who are military veterans, including our JROTC and LOTC instructors. Happy Veterans Day!" https://youtu.be/CjHWxhWEtv0

Submitted by: LTC (Ret) Derrick A. Corbett, SAI  On Thursday, 27 Oct 2022, the Army JROTC cadets of Alvarado High School (Alvarado, TX) traveled to the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas. The cadets visited the flight line, EOD working dog teams and the Air Traffic Control Tower. The lead pilot on the [...]

Story by: CW4 (R) Christine Landers On 4 NOV 2022 Hillcrest High School attended the West Point LEADS Workshop. The workshop was to provide DISD JROTC Cadets a chance to work with current US Military Academy Cadets as well as a small team of West Point Staff. The cadets were later broken down into small [...]

Submitted by: LTC (Ret) Derrick A. Corbett, SAI  On November 2nd, the Alvarado High School (Alvarado, Texas) JROTC scholars volunteered at Alvarado's Helping Hands for Jesus (HHFJ). Each month our goal is to engage in a community activity that positively impacts the community. The JROTC scholars augment the HHFJ team once a month to support its mission [...]

Submitted by: LTC (R) Leonard S. CianciottoVideo Credit: McAllen ISD The McAllen High School Bulldog Battalion celebrates 50 years of Junior ROTC with a tribute video played at our last home varsity football game.  Happily, we also provided the color guard at the class of 1973's 50th reunion where we met the very first Battalion Commander, [...]

Submitted by: LTC (R) Thomas W. Johnson On 15 October, Cheyenne Central High School, WY, hosted a Raider competition.  Six schools from three states consisting of Army, Air Force and Marine JROTC’s competed in the event.  It concluded with a Rifle PT challenge to the music of “Bring Sally Up.” The event was sponsored by [...]

Submitted by: MSG (R) Gary Hollins East Central HS JROTC Male Raider team earned 1st place honors at the Wagner competition on Saturday 8 October 2022, they from left to right Pedro Camacho, Marcos Sanchez, Isaac Camacho and Angel Davila.  The army instructor is MSG Gary Hollins.

Story by: LTC (R) Darrell (Wallie) Shaw DARDANELLE, AR -- Dardanelle High School JROTC and Computer Science programs were recently awarded a $17,141 Innovation in Computer Science grant from the Arkansas Department of Education. The grant will fund an initiative to develop virtual reality and other extended reality applications for students and teachers. The grant [...]

Submitted by LTC (R) Patrick Almond and 1SG (R) Kenneth Carbon On Friday, 23 Sep 2022, the Davenport High School JROTC program participated in the Annual Comal County Fair Parade in New Braunfels, Texas. The Comal County Fair is the largest County Fair in Central Texas. Thousands of local residents lined the parade route to [...]

Story by LTC (R) Peter R. Sandberg Maryvale HS JROTC Color Guard Team was invited to present the Colors at Cartwright District's annual 9/11 Never Forget Breakfast hosted by Dr. Aguilar-Lawlor to honor First Responders and commemorate 9/11. This proved to be a great opportunity to support partners and build relationships in the Community. After [...]