“THE HORNETS NEST” NEWS BRIEFS

By Omar Alcantar & Adeline Chafino

LEADERSHIP EDUCATION TRAINING

ESPANOLA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL AJROTC

CHRISTMAS EDITION

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Commanders Call: Conducted weekly by cadet staff to ensure communication between staff sections for planning, coordinating, and execution of missions.

Staff Meeting: Other of the month on Tuesday morning 0800

Staff Brief Agenda

• Executive Officer Priorities• S1-Personnel Update• S2-Security Issues &

Update• S3-AJROTC Operations

Update• S4-Logistics Update• S5-Public Affairs Update• S6-Recruiting Update• Command Sergeant Major

Update• Unit Commander’s Update• Senior Army Instructor

Update DREAM TEAM 2013-2014

INITIATING CONTACT AT EVERY LEVEL

JROTC School Activities and Events

Teen Court and cadets of EVHS AJROTC EVHS participated in the annual City Parade of Lights on 14 December, 2013. This years theme was “Miracle on Main Street. Cadets assisted Carlos Baca and Judge Salazar in building the Peanuts cartoon float consisting Of Snoopy and his Dog House.

Major Gonzales followed in his float consisting of Snoopy, Woodstock, Rudolf, Bumble, and cadets. The event was a great success with 25 cadet participating from AJROTC and two from CAP.

Congratulations to ALL let I Classes for completing their 1st semester in AJROTC. They are now old cadets and receive their LET Certificate and ribbon.

Community Event News

AJROTC and CVM CAP Collected 40 toys to donate to “Put A Smile on a Childs Face” program for children in the area who are less fortunate. This toy drive is part of the AJROTC citizenship curriculum for conducting community service and having cadets give back to their community.

This is a lesson on utilize the four of the seven Army values of self-less service, duty to the community, working towards an honorable cause, and having integrity by doing something good in their community.

Hornet Squadron News

LET IV ‘s will be conducted etiquette training for all LET Class was conducted from 9-13 December, 2013. Cadet LET IV’s prepared lesson plans as part of JROTC curriculum and taught a class in teams of two between 1st-6th periods.

On 20 December, 2013 LET IV cadets get evaluated on conducting the annual formal military Dining In at “Joe B’s restaurant. Brigadier General Juan Greigo will be the guest speaker and members of the EPS school board will be present.

Dinner will be stuffed sopapillas, and cheese cake.

AJROTC Sports & Team Activities

Army JROTC at EVHS is putting together a 5 man bowling team to compete in the APS JROTC bowling tournament on January 18th in Albuquerque.

On 20 December members of the 30 AJROTC Rifle Team, Color Guard, and PT Team earned their uniform tabs for one semester of loyally participating in team events.

AJROTC will be teaming up with Game and Fish educators to conduct the hunter safety course in the second semester prior to conducting air rifle marksmanship training for all cadets.

JCLC Summer Camp UpdateMajor Gonzales is attending the monthly JCLC Summer Camp meetings in Santa Fe. He will be the Camp Commander for JCLC 2014 schedule from June 20-27, 2014 at the Onate Complex in Santa Fe. EVHS AJROTC will again lead the way in setting up the base camp and running logistical support for over 400 cadets from around the state. This will be the 6th year that Espanola has EVHS-AJROTC has run the Joint Branch summer camp.

Summer camp training will consist of rappelling, land navigation, water survival at Cochiti lake, marksmanship training, obstacle course, leadership reaction course, and other events. Camp will be at the National Guard Onate Complex in June at Santa Fe with 400 other cadets.

JCLC OBSTACLE COURSE

Up Coming Events

AJROTC Bowling Tournament 18 Jan. 2014.

Teen Court January 09, 2014 03:45 Municipal Court

UNM Navy ROTC Golden Anchor Drill Meet IN Santa Fe, March 2014.

Bataan Death March, 16 March 2014

Del Valle Drill Meet El Paso, March 2014.

Dining Out May 2014.MERRY CHRISTMAS HORNET SQUADRON

Comics

“Hornet Squadron” Making Contact At All

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