By: Benny Arredondo
The head Commander of ROTC is Commander Ronald Hojnowski, and his assistant is Chief Gary Geromette. Joining ROTC requires a time sacrifice since all student cadets are required to participate in different types of events as a standard of joining. Current cadets of JROTC are held to the standard of having to participate in 10 hours of community service. Different types of events can be, color guard, drone racing, drill, community service, etc. These are all different fields that cadets may choose to be in with some being requirements.
JROTC community service is a controversial topic based off the feedback given from current cadets serving. As a basic standard of the syllabus is to participate in a certain amount of event until a cadet has reached 10 hours. Many events are given through out the year to give all cadets an equal fair chance to participate and complete their task. What makes this controversial is that some students believe that having to show up to events maybe too much since most events occur on the weekends. Emily, a current cadet serving claims, “consistently there always blowing so many events towards us that I didn’t know were required but since I’m a student athlete I can’t really attend much on the weekends and it’s killing my grade by not being able to show up.” This is an issue that many other cadets are being met with, without the opportunity to speak about what solutions may be.
As a group and team, some of the superior cadets see participating outside of school as a way of building a good bond and friendship. Davis, another cadet of ROTC claims, “…showing up to anything, not just the organization but anything outside of school always leads to building a friendship stronger cause you’re seeing each other outside of just the same thing every day which leads to new topics and a way to learn things in common, just overall a new environment for each other.” Both perspectives of the cadets show the pros and cons of joining and serving the ROTC unit. Most students claim that joining comes with a cost and that its not for everyone which they understand and so do the superiors Commander Hojnowski and Chief Geromette.
The head Commander of ROTC is Commander Ronald Hojnowski, and his assistant is Chief Gary Geromette. Joining ROTC requires a time sacrifice since all student cadets are required to participate in different types of events as a standard of joining. Current cadets of JROTC are held to the standard of having to participate in 10 hours of community service. Different types of events can be, color guard, drone racing, drill, community service, etc. These are all different fields that cadets may choose to be in with some being requirements.
JROTC community service is a controversial topic based off the feedback given from current cadets serving. As a basic standard of the syllabus is to participate in a certain amount of event until a cadet has reached 10 hours. Many events are given through out the year to give all cadets an equal fair chance to participate and complete their task. What makes this controversial is that some students believe that having to show up to events maybe too much since most events occur on the weekends. Emily, a current cadet serving claims, “consistently there always blowing so many events towards us that I didn’t know were required but since I’m a student athlete I can’t really attend much on the weekends and it’s killing my grade by not being able to show up.” This is an issue that many other cadets are being met with, without the opportunity to speak about what solutions may be.
As a group and team, some of the superior cadets see participating outside of school as a way of building a good bond and friendship. Davis, another cadet of ROTC claims, “…showing up to anything, not just the organization but anything outside of school always leads to building a friendship stronger cause you’re seeing each other outside of just the same thing every day which leads to new topics and a way to learn things in common, just overall a new environment for each other.” Both perspectives of the cadets show the pros and cons of joining and serving the ROTC unit. Most students claim that joining comes with a cost and that its not for everyone which they understand and so do the superiors Commander Hojnowski and Chief Geromette.
