Clark wears a lot of hats. He’s a retired chief master sergeant with the United States Air Force, an aerospace science instructor, and leads JROTC for Bob Jones High School.

JROTC, a program that has existed since World War I, offers an increasingly rare means of connecting students who will soon be old enough to join the military with those in uniform.

Each service has a JROTC in relative size to the active-duty branch -- with the Army's JROTC program making up the lion's share. The Army has some 1,734 JROTC programs in high schools across the ...

More than 2,000 hours of community service have earned students with the Washburn Rural High School Air Force JROTC program a prestigious award.

They then put in a full day at school, and then go right back to JROTC activities from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Omar Montoya says the camaraderie makes the long days something ...