North Cobb~Harrison NJROTC

American Legion Post 29's (Marietta) recognition of their 2021 Boy's State graduates. Aiden Burris and a few other high school students were recognized for their outstanding contribution to the 2021 Boy's State, which was hosted by Gordon State College! Cadet Burris endured a very intense, tiring, and exhilarating week full of governmental lessons, sports tournaments, and as well as serving as a participating citizen in the Boy's State government. He was elected to a City Council position where he compounded ideas from other council members and the Mayor of George City, Washington County, to create laws for the city. As a group of 15 exceptional Boy's State participants, they earned the recognition of Best City (out of 12 cities) due to their phenomenal athletic victories, test scores, and overall excellent contribution to Boy's State! Congratulations again to c/ENS Aiden Burris for all of his hard work this summer! 

On Friday August 27th, Harrison had their first home game of the season versus North Forsyth High School! Our Harrison cadets came out in their NSU's and stayed posted at six different gates during the game! Despite being drenched by the pouring rain and being pushed out by a lightning delay, our cadets managed to stay safe and have a good time!  Harrison ended up winning 19-6! Thank you to all the cadets who showed up and showed out!!!

Cadets pictured left to right; c/CPO Reese, Jordyn, c/LCDR Anderson, Jaylen, C/SCPO Bartley, Karianna, and c/ENS Burris, Aiden

Cadets this weekend attended the annual Pigs & Peaches festival to help set up and take down tents, tables, chairs; pick up trash, restock food, and answer any questions that people may have. In their down time they explored all the tents, games, and food such as lemonade, barbeque, and funnel cakes! All around did an awesome job helping out with maintaining cleanliness and a positive atmosphere! Thanks you cadets for your time and energy!!

On Friday, August 13th, North Cobb high school had a scrimmage game against Sprayberry high school and our NJROTC cadets all came out to help with the game. Cadets were posted around the whole football area and watched over the stations they were in. North Cobb won the game by 59 - 16. Thank you to all the cadets who came out to help!!

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On July 13th - 16th we held our annual New Cadet Orientation! Our staff members gathered together to introduce our new cadets to our NJROTC Unit and are very proud to see all 21 of them excited to join ROTC. We did lots of fun activities like Drill Knockout, Brain Brawl and Rifle shooting! We also held demonstrations and briefs of every department and team such as Rifle, Orienteering, Drill, Academics, Drone, and Athletic Team. Thank you so much to our new NS1's for coming out and getting a taste of our unit! We cant wait to see you back here in person!!

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Cadets helped The Kennesaw Parks & Rec with their 2nd summertime "Movie in the Park"! Prior to the movie showing, cadets helped set up tents, tables, chairs, and games! They also assisted in helping park attendees tie-dye their clothes, hand out pizza, and even join in on some of the games! Even though the event was interrupted by a rain and thunderstorm, these cadets still managed to keep people safe, dry, and having a good time! Bravo Zulu for serving the giving back to your community! Look out for future opportunities to help out!!!

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On May 15th NS2's & NS3's had one last dance with their 2021 senior class at the Annual Military Ball! This year we were thankful to have our military ball at the  Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History! Cadets were welcomed with a prayer from Chaplain c/ENS Peña-Rubio, Rebecca and a well thought motivational speech from guest speaker USMC Retired SSgt Buckley. c/CDR Lago, Matthaeus & c/ENS Powell, Elly were named the King & Queen while c/LTJG Gray, Domingo & c/ENS Peña-Rubio were named the Prince & Princess (pictured heating up the dance floor with the infamous 'Wobble'), preluded by the seniors farewell with a sword arch by the Honor Guard! Overall, cadets had a successful and outstanding evening full of laughs and memories for one last round trip for the end of another astounding year for the unit!! A special thanks to the NJROTC Booster Club for helping make this night possible!!! Bravo Zulu seniors, you will be missed!!!

On May 12th we held our Annual Awards Ceremony for the cadets of 2020-2021, many of our cadets got awarded new ranks, positions, ribbons and metals! Our CO c/CDR Lago, Matheus and XO c/LCDR Dorsinvil, Louis was there to congratulate us and happily hand out our new positions after a long and tedious process of decision making and we our happy to announce that our new CO and XO are now c/LCDR Anderson, Jaylen and c/LT Flores, Camila! All of our new Positions and team CDR's can be found on the Unit Info Page here! Thank you for all of the people who showed up and congratulations the new staff members!!

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This past weekend, our hungry drill team competed against 12 different schools from Area 12, such as the likes of Nease, South Effingham, Lassiter, Peachtree Ridge and more at the annual Area 12 Drill Championship held in Leesburg this year. Our drill team departed for the journey that Friday afternoon, and used their collective time at the hotel to sharpen their skills with drill, athletics, and academics for the following day. In the blistering heat, our drill team managed to walkaway with a considerable amount of hardware including individual awards. Multiple cadets placed in the top 3 in their respective events; c/ENS Peña-Rubio placing 2nd overall for Female Push-ups, c/PO1 Lawson, Jeykel topping all other males to earn the 1st overall for Curl-Ups, and finally c/PO2 Johnson, Craig using his brain to place 3rd overall amongst the best brains in Area 12. As a group, our academic team placed 1st overall at the meet, athletics placed 2nd overall, and drill placed 2nd overall with the help of Armed Basic and Color Guard achieving 1st place in all of Area 12! With these trophies, the North Cobb-Harrison Drill Team has earned a spot for Navy Nationals!! Bravo Zulu to the drill team members!! Good Luck at NAVY NATIONALS!

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This past Saturday, on March 20th, our Brain Brawl team competed at Eagles Landing against 23 other schools at the Area 12 Championship to compete for a spot at Navy Nationals. c/ENS Powell placed 3rd in the Brawl Stars where one cadet from each team competes to see who is the quickest and smartest Brain Brawler in Area 12. The two teams started off strong in the first round, with Team 1 maintaining the 2nd place lead along with Team 2 following in 7th. In the end, team 2 placed 7th overall and Team 1 placed 3rd overall and will continue on to Navy Nationals! Bravo Zulu to the Brain Brawlers !!!

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