Academic team is one of the more unknown teams here at RHS, for when most people think of JROTC, they think of marching, rifles, shooting and drill teams. But we do have a Academic team as well. Academic team is a more low-impact team then others, seeing as how your competitions are generally indoors and involves more using your minds and knowledge then your muscles, but we play a strong role as well. Academic team members are generally more up-to-date on current events and have more general knowledge about current events, US History, the Constitution, laws, various facets of the military, and many other topics. The people who do best here are those who have the most general knowledge. Memorizing wont do you much good here, there's too much ground to cover.
This year's Academic team for JROTC consists of, at the moment, mself, c/1LT Trimble, and c/1LT Hudson (on an interim basis). We generally have 5-8 cadets on this team, though last year we had 4. I would like to get more cadets involved in this, seeing as how Academic Team hasn't really done anything in the past besides last year, in which we placed 6th in the only competition we went to, and got the only medal we came back with. That team consisted of myself, c/1LT Hudson, c/CPT Hugo Contrares, and c/CPT Spencer Martinez. Seeing as how the latter 2 no longer attend RHS, I would love to get at least 2 more people in this team, preferably 3 to 5. If you're interested, please let me, c/LTC Patterson (your Battalion Commander, in other words), Sgt Kruschke, or Captain Harris know, and we will see about getting you up to speed and on the team.
Subject: Academic Team 
Thu Aug 28, 2008 6:15 pm
