Tag: JROTC

  • Time for City Corps

    JROTC is preparing to start off strong this year with their City Corps competition coming up on October 4 at Cabrillo High School. City Corps is an event between four schools: Lakewood, Paramount, Cabrillo, and Long Beach Poly. At the event, the top four cadets will be interviewed by all the instructors from each school.

    The commanders have chosen their top four cadets to represent Poly, which will be senior Cadet Lieutenant Colonel Justeny Arias, senior Cadet Major Shaina Tudayan, senior Cadet Major Matthew Sann, and junior Cadet Command Sergeant Major Carina Ayala. These four cadets will be answering questions to see what position they will be able to hold on the Junior ROTC Staff.
    “This is nothing they can really study for,” Senior Army Instructor Sergeant Major Wright explained. “It’s just gonna be military knowledge on how they would handle certain scenarios.”
    As for cadets being chosen, they were carefully picked to represent Poly.

    “The cadets are very dedicated to the program of ROTC and the needs for Poly High School,” Wright said.

    Junior Cadet Carina Ayala explained how she is very excited to be attending and feels honored to be the only represented junior out of the four chosen. Ayala dedicated her 3 years at Poly to Junior ROTC and is looking forward to potentially hold a higher position for her senior year. “I love ROTC because it has pushed me to be the full potential version of myself, and as well, I know I will do great in the competition,” Ayala said.

    After this event passes, JROTC’s next event will be the Veteran’s Parade on November 11.

  • Poly’s JROTC Competition

    Poly’s JROTC Competition

    On Saturday, March 18, from 7 A.M. – 3 P.M. Poly’s first Battalion Army JROTC program, a leadership program whose mission is, had their annual Army Navy Competition against Cabrillo and Lakewood on our school’s campus both have a Marine and Navy junior JROTC. The schools compete in sit-ups and push-ups, drill, and rifle-twirling. Students in JROTC were ranked in these activities and were rewarded for their participation in this event. The Jackrabbits also tried to win back the big trophy from the Cabrillo Jaguars. The Cabrillo Jaguars had won the trophy from the Jackrabbits for the past two years.

    All students
    participate in some sort of fashion, there were many pads which are specific areas in which activities take place. The ninth graders during the whole day were judged by their cadets. The cadets are usually seniors for the fact that thse students are more experienced than other new students in JROTC.

    Master Sergeant Denmark had great confidence that Poly’s JROTC would have the chance to win back the trophy from Cabrillo, which they had won since 2010. As she stated “We have been preparing

     

    the students to do their best in the competitions, so I have hope that we will win back our title.” However, things did not go as planned, the jackrabbits did not win back the big trophy, but they did get some rewards for their great participation in the Saturday event.

     

    BC Commander, Senior Ashley Huendo states, “I was pretty excited but it was also really terrifying and mostly for my cadets that had this experience for the first time.”