Updated at 1:43 p.m., Tuesday, April 24, 2007
Top JROTC cadets to be saluted at Fort Shafter event
Advertiser Staff
More than 500 Hawai'i students from high schools on four islands will this week take part in the annual Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, JROTC parade and awards ceremony on the historic Palm Circle Parade Field at Fort Shafter.The hourlong ceremony is set to get under way at 10 a.m. Thursday. The public is invited to attend.
Maj. Gen. Robert E. Lee, the state's adjutant general, will present awards to the outstanding cadet from each unit. Lee and ceremony host, Maj. Gen. William H. Brandenburg III, deputy commanding general, U.S. Army, Pacific, will participate as the reviewing officers for the parade.
The students are cadets from all of the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine JROTC programs in the state.
"This is the culminating event for the JROTC programs in Hawai'i," retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Antoinette Correia, JROTC program manager for the Hawaii Department of Education said in a news release issued today. "It gives us a wonderful opportunity to highlight the achievements of our outstanding cadets."
Many of the cadets have family members serving in the armed forces, including parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles and cousins, Correia said. Some are deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
During the ceremony, awards will be presented to the outstanding cadet from each unit, including those from O'ahu and Neighbor Island high schools.
An audience of relatives, friends, and educators, military and civic leaders will witness this year's ceremony. Musical support will be provided by the Marine Forces Pacific Band due to the wartime deployment of the Army's Tropic Lightning Band.
The "2007 Outstanding Cadets" are:
