October 11, 2012
MEDIA ADVISORY
Media Contact: Lisa McDonnell (858) 503-1841
JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORP (JROTC) CADET PICNIC
WHEN: Saturday, October 13
• 9:30-9:50 a.m. – Sack Race (preliminary rounds)
• 9:55-10:15 a.m. – Relay Race (preliminary rounds)
• 10:20-10:45 a.m. – Bat Spin (preliminary and final rounds)
• 10:50-11 a.m. – Sack Race (final rounds)
• 11:10-11:20 a.m. – Relay Race (final rounds)
• 11:30-11:40 a.m. – Hotshot (preliminary and final rounds)
• 11:40 a.m.-1 p.m. – Lunch
• 1-1:30 p.m. – Ovation (preliminary and final rounds)
• 1:40-2:10 p.m. – Tug of War (female final rounds)
• 2:20-2:50 p.m. – Tug of War (male final rounds)
• 3-3:30 p.m. – Formation and closing ceremony
WHERE: Admiral Baker Park
2400 Admiral Baker Road, SD (Area) 92120 .
Media parking will be available in main lot.
WHAT: Highly motivated cadets from the San Diego Unified School District Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) Joint Brigade will conduct the Annual JROTC Cadet Picnic and compete in a day filled with fun competitive events and good sportsmanship. This event is held to foster an atmosphere of teamwork and esprit de corps and increase participation and morale within all San Diego Unified School District JROTC programs.
VISUALS: High school cadets competing with their school teams against other schools.
GUEST SPEAKERS/INTERVIEWS: students, instructors.
BACKGROUND: The Cadet Picnic is an annual event since 1992 to foster teamwork and esprit de corps and increase participation and morale within all San Diego Unified School District JROTC programs. The SDUSD Joint Brigade is organized based upon a line infantry brigade of 13 units from all 4 branches of JROTC, with a Headquarters comprised of command and staff. The Joint Brigade is housed within the Office of College, Career & Technical Education.
The United States Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) came into being with the passage of the National Defense Act of 1916. Under the provisions of the Act, high schools were authorized the loan of federal military equipment and the assignment of active duty military personnel as instructors. In 1964, the Vitalization Act opened JROTC up to the other services and replaced most of the active duty instructors with retirees who worked for and were cost shared by the schools.
The JROTC Program has changed greatly over the years. Once looked upon primarily as a source of enlisted recruits and officer candidates, it became a citizenship program devoted to the moral, physical and educational uplift of American youth. Although the program retained its military structure and the resultant ability to infuse in its student cadets a sense of discipline and order, it shed most of its early military content.
The study of ethics, citizenship, communications, leadership, life skills and other subjects designed to prepare young men and woman to take their place in adult society, evolved as the core of the program. More recently, an improved student centered curriculum focusing on character building and civic responsibility is being presented in every JROTC classroom.
JROTC is a continuing success story. From a modest beginning of 6 schools in 1916, JROTC has expanded to over 3,200 high schools within every state in the nation, as well as American schools overseas. Cadet enrollment has grown to 281,000 cadets with 4,000 professional instructors in the classrooms. Comprised solely of Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine retirees, the JROTC instructors serve as mentors developing the outstanding young citizens of our country.
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