History of the JROTC Program
The United States Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) came into being with the passage of the National Defense Act of 1916. Under the provisions of the Act, high schools were authorized the loan of federal military equipment and the assignment of active duty military personnel as instructors. There was a condition that the instructors follow a prescribed course of training and maintain a minimum enrollment of 100 students over the age of 14 years who worked for and were cost shared by the schools.
Title 10 of the U.S. declares that "the purpose of Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps is to instill in students in United States secondary educational institutions the value of citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment."
The JROTC Program has changed greatly over the years. Once looked upon primarily as a source of enlisted recruits and officer candidates, it became a citizenship program devoted to the moral, physical and education uplift of American youth. Although the program retained its military structure and the resultant ability to infuse in its student cadets a sense of discipline and order, it shed most of its early military content.
The study of ethics, citizenship, communication, leadership, life skills and other subjects designed to prepare young men and women to take their place in adult society, evolved as the core of the program. More recently, an improves student centered curriculum focusing on character building and civic responsibility is being presented in every JROTC classroom.
JROTC is a continuing success story. From a modest beginning of 6 unit in 1916, JROTC has expanded to 1555 schools today and to every state in the nation and American schools overseas. Cadets enrollment has grown to 273,000 cadets with 3,900 professional instructors in the classrooms. Comprised solely developing the outstanding young citizens of our country.
KHS AYUYU BATTALION HISTORY
Kagman High School (KHS) was founded in December 2001. On January 14, 2002 Kagman High School cadets were still affiliated with the Marianas High School Dolphin Battalion also known as the AYUYU Dolphin Charlie Company. Later on that year on August 7th, Charlie Company was re-designated as the National Defense Cadets Corps (NDCC), which was not funded by the CNMI Government. On July 1, 2003, through cadet command Junior Reserves Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) was activated here at Kagman High School. MSG/CPT (RETIRED) James Burke was then assigned to Kagman High School December 4, 2001 to present as the Senior Army Instructor and SFC (RETIRRD) Anthony Guzman Lukeala was assigned to Kagman High School on July 2, 2009 to 2011 & now is the past Army Instructor. SFC (RETIRED) Giovanni Siruelo was assigned to the Kagman High School JROTC Program in 2012 and is still here on the present school year of 2014- 2015 as an Army Instructor.