California Cadet Corps Experience

Everyone goes through a challenge at some point in their life. I went through a challenge last year at the beginning of my freshman year attending Foothills Christian High School. Last year, my freshman year I did not know anybody starting the school year. This made me super nervous to start high school. I was also concerned about the three days a week at school and two days homeschool. One of my challenges was going to school and parts of that challenge was not knowing anybody starting school, having to go to school on three days a week instead of five, and not knowing the campus well.

many obstacles along the way and still managed to overcome them. A difficult challenge I have faced throughout high school would be the time I decided to

Every day, every one, in the world goes through a challenge, big or small. They affect and impact us significantly. They change the way we think, love, act, and approach or do things. Challenges either frighten or motivate us, but they are what make us the person we are today.

1. Thirty pounds of metal resting on my left shoulder, I marched for hours in the blistering hot sun. The sousaphone was my greatest enemy. In 6th grade I was chosen to play tuba for our middle school band, I didn't like it at first, but it grew on

Everyone has different aspects of life that come with multiple obstacles. As many think they aren’t able to overcome and moving fourth, believing they will fall apart and behind everyone else. Most of mankind has experience some type of obstacles and we all have a wide arrangement on how to

In my search to discover the best environment to continue my studies I have come across many schools. While I have been impressed by each, Virginia Tech is the only to have genuinely captured my attention. Spending a night with the Corps was the single greatest experience of my life and has led me to pursue not only Virginia Tech but the Corps as well. Being exposed to reputable college students chasing their dreams has influenced me to do the same. If their presence was able to impact me so strongly, what can I achieve after four years of being surrounded by the Corps of Cadets? An institution built on distinguished students of high moral value is unquestionably the conclusion of my college pursuit. Virginia Tech is where I belong.

What it means to me, to be a R.O.T.C. Junior Cadet at Pryor Middle School. Being a R.O.T.C Junior Cadet means a whole lot to me, as it has been my lifelong dream to serve in the United States Military. A R.O.T.C Junior Cadet should demonstrate qualities of loyalty and patriotism, dependability and good character, obedience to discipline, and leadership abilities. It is important to show loyalty because loyalty builds character and reliability in a person. Being able to understand and exert discipline is also important in order to be successful.

I, Ronnishia Thomas, the child of Amie Williams and Donnie Thomas SR. I have three siblings, two sisters and one brother. My sister's names are Alexas Tucker and Donnishia Williams. My brother who is the youngest out of us all name is Donnie Thomas JR. My brother Donnie Thomas JR.,

Without a doubt the single most influential experience in my life has been graduating from Marine Corps boot camp at MCRD San Diego. They say less than one percent of United States Citizens serve in the military and a small fraction of them serve as United States Marines. I take great pride in the fact that standing on those famous yellow footprints separates me from more than 99% of people I will meet. Some people claim boot camp was easy for them, that they didn’t struggle or second guess themselves; unfortunately I am not one of those people. I greatly struggled, not physically as that was easy but mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. Initially I wasn’t sure if I had made the right decision in enlisting right out of high school. But then

TRAINING IN THE CALIFORNIA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD This essay addresses operational challenges and ways for improving functional training skills for progressive changes for all Soldiers of the California Army National Guard (CAARNG). By improving the current operational practices and providing continuous training that uses standardized approaches and practices for CAARNG NCO’s will assist in the development of inexperienced NCO’s and the retention of highly experienced NCO’s.

“Accept the challenge so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.” Stated by George S. Patton, a senior officer of the United States Army, trying to explain that if you try to achieve difficult goals and complete them, you will feel success and feel good about yourself. You will feel that because you knew that you have put in the work to complete that and you have felt better than you ever felt before. Challenges are always needed because they help you gain confidence, grow, learn, and excel in whatever you are doing. They are needed because when you excel, you want to do more challenging things because you want to feel that success again. This means that when you have tough goals and complete it, you will feel success and grow as an individual and want to challenge yourself even more.

Throughout my life, from as a child to a young adult, my parents were never ones to shy away from introducing me to the mechanics of the real world. It was never a specific time of day, but a situational occurrence where I would be taught the values of hard work, what fruits my labor would bear, and how best to use the fruits of my labor. However, during all this time, I never truly experienced much hardship. This all changed beginning the freshman year of high school, my first experience in a competitive marching band.

That night our last assignment was to escape from a prison camp nestled in the jungle not far from our location. We were formed up in platoon size chunks and marched down a dusty road with instructions to periodically peel off into the woods when the guards were looking in groups of four. The march began and the Sgt. gave the word that every 30 seconds a different group would run for the woods and work their way to friendly lines. Now with my group we had an officer candidate for West Point when he graduated this phase of training, and he didn’t let us forget that. We were all the same rank though for the moment and we would see what leadership qualities he lacked shortly thereafter. When it came our time to bolt we charged out through ditch

My greatest example of challenge came from my engagement in Eaton Girl’s Basketball. I have always played basketball since before I can remember so it was no surprise when I decided to play as a freshman. Two years prior to my freshman year, I had torn my ACL, this had changed the way my knees functioned and provided me with several obstacles from that point forward. I learned to deal with this and made the decision to continue playing. Just before my sophomore year, at a summer camp, I twisted my knee and tore my ACL yet again, this time on the opposite leg. I missed out on my sophomore season but stayed on as a manager. I attended every practice, traveled with the team, and kept statistics during games.

The most significant challenge that I've had to face was moving schools and even states. It was some of the biggest and quickest changes I've ever had to deal with and it wasn’t easy especially at ages 8 through 11. I learned to adapt to things faster so