As the early morning sun broke the dawn, hundreds of JROTC cadets moved to their start positions. Radio crackles could be heard across the starting lines, signaling the competition was about to begin.

Walking into class in her blue military uniform and polished black shoes, Alisha Arshad may not look like the typical JROTC cadet, but at Brentwood High School, she is. The senior is the student ...

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 ...

Hunter Janeway is the Battalion Commander at Gibbs High School for their Army JROTC program. The program has changed his life in more ways than one, he said. “The program really builds you up.