JROTC
NEWSLETTER
JROTC CADETS STAY BUSY WITH COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES
San Pedro High School Air Force JROTC 1001 West Fifteenth Street San Pedro, CA 90731 (310) 221-0691 (office) (310) 547-3183 (fax)
[email protected] Volume V, Issue II December 2007
Cadets march down Pacific Avenue in the San Pedro Holiday Parade on December 2nd.
C/Lieutenant Jacob Delgado searches Cabrillo Beach for debris on November 10th.
JROTC cadets have been very busy this school year with numerous community service activities. Forty six cadets marched in the San Pedro Holiday Parade on December 2nd. For the second year they used a 2-element color guard team and were very impressive marching down Pacific Avenue. On November 10th, 13 cadets completed the first of eight scheduled park clean-up days at Cabrillo Beach Park. The next clean-up date is scheduled for December 15th at Cabrillo Beach Park. Every month the cadets help serve breakfast to veterans at the Wilmington VFW Post. So far
this year, cadets have worked five monthly breakfasts and accrued 90 service hours. The next VFW breakfast is scheduled for January 27th. At SPHS, the cadets perform the daily reveille and retreat ceremony at the campus flagpole as well as presenting the colors at all home football games. The cadets have accrued 147 manhours presenting the colors so far this school year. School and community service activities are a big part of JROTC. The cadets established a goal of 800 community service hours this year in their efforts to win a 6th consecutive Distinguished Unit Award.
SOUTH GATE HIGH SCHOOL CLOSES JROTC PROGRAM South Gate High School closed their Air Force JROTC program after 36 years of operation at the school. South Gate’s JROTC enrollment had been dropping for several years and they finished last school year with 24 cadets. Additionally, the school had been operating without a senior aerospace science instructor for the past three years. Air Force regulations require schools hosting a JROTC program to have at least two instructors,
one officer and one NCO. Because of these two on-going problems, South Gate administrators decided to close the program. This leaves four Air Force JROTC programs still open in LAUSD including Francis Polytechnical, Canoga Park, Fullerton Prep Academy, and San Pedro.Due to South Gate’s close proximity to SPHS, the task of inventoring and redistributing their uniforms and equipment to other schools falls on
Special points of interest: Cadets busy with community service activities Closing of South Gate JROTC affects SPHS Deadline to purchase military ball tickets is 1/10/08 Instructors receive English Language Development Cadets help out at town hall meeting Cadet Deputy Commander profiled this month
Inside this issue: Community service keeps cadets busy
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JROTC program at 1 South Gate HS closes Military Ball tickets on sale
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Instructors complete AB 2913 training
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SPHS hosts townhall 2 meeting for Air Force Cadet profile
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MILITARY BALL TICKET SALES END JANUARY 10TH, 2008
The Royal Court from last year’s military ball is shown above In their traditional lobby fountain portrait. Who will be chosen for this year’s royal court?
The Military Ball is fast approaching and tickets will be on sale through January 10th, 2008. The tickets are $54.00 per person and can be purchased with cash or checks made out to San Pedro High School JROTC. The military ball is the social event of the year and provides cadets and their guests an opportunity to socialize and interact within a structured and supervised venue. The ball will be held on February 2nd at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles from 4:00 pm to 12:00 am. There is a mandatory dress code for all cadets and guests. Male cadets are required to wear their JROTC uniforms with a white shirt and blue or black bow tie. Non-JROTC male guests may wear semi-formal or business suit attire; however, ties are required. All female cadets and non-cadets will wear appropriate ball gowns. The ball will have its usual festivities including drill performances and the royal court parade after dinner. Cadets will have plenty of dancing time until the ball ends at midnight.
INSTRUCTORS COMPLETE AB 2913 STAFF DEVELOPMENT
SPHS HOSTS TOWN HALL MEETING FOR AIR FORCE FAMILIES
JROTC Instructors Major Stiegleiter and CMSgt Wood completed their mandatory state AB 2913 requirements. This authorizes Major Stiegleiter and Chief Wood to teach ELD/SDAIE in a departmentalized class in the subject and grade authorized by their designated subject or services credential with a special class authorization. Both instructors spent 45 hours of formal class time instruction and passed a formative and summative assessment. They are now authorized to provide English Language Development instruction to English language learners in JROTC.
Mr. Di Pietro, San Pedro High School principal, hosted a towh hall meeting on December 11th for Air Force members who have sons or daughters enrolled at SPHS. Mr. Di Pietro specifically wanted to address concerns Air Force parents have regarding their sons/daughters attending school at SPHS. Some of the concerns brought up by the parents included honors programs, college prep classes, scholarship assistance and guidance, magnet programs, school safety, and the JROTC program. The meeting was also attended by several school administrators and staff.
CADET PROFILE: C/CAPTAIN CHRISTOPHER PRINCE Cadet Captain Christopher Prince has been in JROTC for four years. He currently is the Cadet Deputy Commander and has held numerous positions previously. He made such an impression after his first year that he was promoted to flight sergeant. Additionally, he was appointed to the Personnel NCOIC position as a sophomore for a semester, then moved upward to be the Mission Support OIC for over a year during his sophomore and junior years. Midway through his junior year, he was appointed to the Operations OIC and Logistics OIC positions and has the distinction of being the only cadet to have both positions simultaneously. He was promoted to cadet deputy commander at
the end of last year and is projected to be the cadet commander next semester. The most important thing he has learned in JROTC is that “the world is competitive and I can’t afford to slip up at any time.” He was selected for the Outstanding Cadet of the Year Award for 2005-2006 and has earned several medals including the Military Order of the World Wars, Daedalian Association, and Scotthish Rite Southern Jurisdiction. He plans to attend El Camino College and then transfer to either UCLA or University of Texas and participate in either school’s Air Force ROTC program. He hopes one day to become a Mission Support Squadron Commander.
