Captain James Minta
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1st Sgt Lorenzo Cox
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Welcome all new families and cadets
Dear Parents,
Congratulations on having your son and/or daughter sign up for the Naval Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (NJROTC) program at Lassiter High School. Our program is unique in that it is composed of students from Lassiter, Pope, and Kell High Schools. Rather than just teaching a class per day to students, we administer an overall program that emphasizes self-discipline, reliability, academics, physical conditioning and character development from day one. While in our program, your cadet will be able to earn promotions within our cadet ranks (from Cadet Seaman Recruit up to Cadet Commander). Additionally, cadets will be able to letter in our various teams in drill, athletics, academics, orienteering, and rifle. Of course, just “showing up” won’t necessarily earn your cadet a letter or promotion. All of our cadets must personally earn everything they receive in NJROTC.
The purpose of this letter is to announce our annual Newcomer Orientation/Drill Camp, which will be held in the NJROTC classroom and drill field. This year’s camp will be co-hosted with Sprayberry NJROTC unit at Sprayberry High School, 2525 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta, GA 30066. The dates for orientation are Monday, 23 July and Tuesday, 24 July from 9 am until 3 pm each day. Our cadet leaders are developing an agenda that will detail each day’s activities. Attending our orientation will afford the students an excellent opportunity for our Freshmen newcomers to transition properly from middle school to high school, meet some upper classmen who will be charged with alleviating any minor problems or possible fears that they may have about going to high school, and assist upperclassmen with the basics of the NJROTC program. Bottom line, by attending Newcomer Orientation, they will meet the two NJROTC Instructors, get a better feel for the NJROTC program, and very likely will wind up doing a few push-ups for not attaching a “sir” or “ma’am” to a yes or no answer. We will not be strictly enforcing grooming standards during the two days, but males must leave their earrings at home. We will discuss the grooming standards that will be strictly enforced during the school year (these standards are required by the U.S. Navy to enable a student to participate in the NJROTC program). We will have one session for parents (Monday, 23 July from 9 am until 10 am) which will be conducted by our Senior Naval Science Instructors. It is important for them to hydrate well prior to starting the camp and eating a healthy breakfast. Tuesday we will provide lunch for the students, but ask that you send them with their lunch on Monday.
At the conclusion of the orientation camp we will conduct a one-day drill camp Wednesday 25 July from 9 am until 12 pm. This camp is optional, but new cadets are highly encouraged to attend. The camp will afford them the opportunity to build on those basic drill skills learned during orientation camp. The camp will provide basic drill for the new cadets as well as advanced drill for our upperclassmen on the competition drill and color guard teams.
There is no sugar coating the fact that Navy JROTC will be unlike any other class your son or daughter will experience. We will demand that our cadets maintain accountability and responsibility for their actions and performance. We will not be bashful about pointing out their shortcomings or failure to measure up to our standards. However, if they do well in JROTC, they will most likely be given an officer’s job in their senior, or possibly even junior year, and assist in actually running the unit.
So please email us at james.minta@cobbk12.org and Lorenzo.cox@cobbk12.org, if your son or daughter can attend. Thank you and we’re looking forward to meeting each and every one of you.
Welcome Aboard!
Upcoming Events
Newcomer Orientation
July 23-24 0900-1500
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Sprayberry High School
2525 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta, GA 30066
Drill Camp
July 25 0900-1300
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Sprayberry High School
2525 Sandy Plains Rd, Marietta, GA 30066
Cadet Parent Organization (CPO) Meetings
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Upcoming Spirit Nights
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Donations are still being accepted for our unit. We would love to get the funds to buy a unit trailer, which would cost approximately $3500.
If you want to donate to the cause, please follow this link: https://donorbox.org/cadet-letter-writing-campaign. Also, please share with your family and friends.
If you want to donate to the cause, please follow this link: https://donorbox.org/cadet-letter-writing-campaign. Also, please share with your family and friends.
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