Col. Carlos Rivera, JROTC Senior Army Advisor. The JROTC program's mission is to motivate young people to be better citizens. It prepares high school students for leadership roles while making ...

Waukegan High School’s Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) was founded before American involvement in World War I more than a century ago, and now 18 cadets are involved in a ...

Advertisement Article continues below this ad "Our JROTC mission is to motivate young people to be better citizens and prepare them for leadership roles," Retired Army Maj. Dave Erickson of Knox said.

Following their class motto of “citizenship, operations, advancement, service and teamwork” — or COAST — 58 Mission Bay High students are cadets in their campus’ Coast Guard JROTC.

The Navy JROTC mission, according to its website, "is to instill in students in United States secondary educational institutions the values of citizenship, service to the United States ...

Each high school selected and honored two cadets who demonstrated exemplary leadership, commitment to the JROTC mission, and outstanding performance throughout the 2024–2025 academic year.