Junior ROTC is an elective high school course taught by military personnel at selected private and public high schools in the United States and its territories. It is also taught abroad though the Department of Defense Dependents School System, which primarily serves the dependents of military personnel stationed overseas.
The curriculum, taught by retired military professionals, encompasses a broad spectrum of subjects, including:
Junior ROTC awards academic grades, but its true measures of success are the young people it motivates to stay in school and graduate. It also develops the personal confidence and pride in self to avoid drugs and other negative peer pressures, and attain life skills that enhance success after graduation.
Established by Congress in 1916, Army Junior ROTC has demonstrated over the decades that it works! Junior ROTC Cadets generally graduate from high school at a higher rate than the school as a whole, and principals, parents, and former cadets consistently endorse the positive impact that Junior ROTC has had on the school, the community and the cadets themselves
To motivate and develop young people is the goal of Junior ROTC. To accomplish this goal, it combines classroom instruction and extracurricular activities oriented on attaining an awareness of the rights, responsibilities, and privileges of citizenship; developing the student's (Cadet's) sense of personal responsibility; building life skills; and providing leadership opportunities.
Cadets are organized into units along
military
lines and are taught by retired military personnel, but Junior ROTC
does not
recruit students for military service. Instead, its focus is on
developing young
people and orienting them positively in preparation for whatever role
in life
they might choose. It is in this sense that Junior ROTC is part of the
Army's
service to the nation.
The
HHS Blue Streak Battalion Also Participates in A Regional Summer Camp
Each Year at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia
For more information and pictures from
previous camps, click the link below,
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