MAJOR Rodney Tyson
It is with a genuine concern and a sincere sense of pride for each of our students that Grovetown High School and the Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Department welcomes you to the JROTC program. We anticipate an exciting year of learning, growing, and working together as a team. I challenge each cadet in the Warrior Battalion to put your very best into the program and it will help mold you for the challenges of the future!
While it appears necessary to underscore that a high school student does not incur an obligation for future military service by virtue of enrolling in JROTC, it is equally essential to highlight some of the many advantages that accrue to a young person who enrolls in this course of instruction.
The JROTC Program, like academic courses in English, History, Science, & Mathematics, offers credit toward a high school diploma. JROTC cadets receive instruction in a variety of valuable subjects not available in other aspects of the school curriculum--subjects that have application in all walks of life. Our cadets will have the challenge and accompanying satisfaction of assuming leadership responsibility early in their formative years. Our cadets will learn basic leadership principles the first year then take the responsibility of leadership and teach those principles and techniques during succeeding years. Cadets will plan and direct unit training, make decisions on matters pertaining to personnel and discipline, and assume command responsibilities. Young people training in the business sector must wait years to gain many of these experiences and to exercise this type of authority.
If you are now or later consider a military career, you will find that participation in JROTC gives you an advantage in applying for a college ROTC scholarship or for admittance to one of the United States Military Academies. Additionally, a young person who has applied himself well in JROTC and who may choose to enter one of the military services, to include the National Guard, may enter at one to two grades and pay scales higher than one who has not participated in JROTC. More importantly, no matter what your career aspirations, you will gain a broader perspective of life by having taken this course!
Having served in the active army for 22 years as both an enlisted and commissioned officer, nothing gives me a greater since of pride than what I do now; motivating young people to become better citizens.
HOOAH!
While it appears necessary to underscore that a high school student does not incur an obligation for future military service by virtue of enrolling in JROTC, it is equally essential to highlight some of the many advantages that accrue to a young person who enrolls in this course of instruction.
The JROTC Program, like academic courses in English, History, Science, & Mathematics, offers credit toward a high school diploma. JROTC cadets receive instruction in a variety of valuable subjects not available in other aspects of the school curriculum--subjects that have application in all walks of life. Our cadets will have the challenge and accompanying satisfaction of assuming leadership responsibility early in their formative years. Our cadets will learn basic leadership principles the first year then take the responsibility of leadership and teach those principles and techniques during succeeding years. Cadets will plan and direct unit training, make decisions on matters pertaining to personnel and discipline, and assume command responsibilities. Young people training in the business sector must wait years to gain many of these experiences and to exercise this type of authority.
If you are now or later consider a military career, you will find that participation in JROTC gives you an advantage in applying for a college ROTC scholarship or for admittance to one of the United States Military Academies. Additionally, a young person who has applied himself well in JROTC and who may choose to enter one of the military services, to include the National Guard, may enter at one to two grades and pay scales higher than one who has not participated in JROTC. More importantly, no matter what your career aspirations, you will gain a broader perspective of life by having taken this course!
Having served in the active army for 22 years as both an enlisted and commissioned officer, nothing gives me a greater since of pride than what I do now; motivating young people to become better citizens.
HOOAH!