Marching to victory: JROTC’s journey on the road to nationals

GRC has a highly proclaimed Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, or JROTC, program. They routinely compete in raider competitions, with their most recent competition being on October 22-25th at the JROTC National Raider Challenge in Fort Knox. This competition was the largest Nationals yet with 345 teams and 4,200 cadets in attendance. Peter Salvadori, a senior in JROTC, led the group as team captain where GRC placed 9th in their division. “At Nationals there were five events that we competed in,” Salvadori said. “We did a 5k run over grueling terrain, a 1 mile run with 6 rucks and a 130lbs litter, a half mile obstacle course, a one rope bridge over a river, and a physical strength test.” Two weeks before the actual competition, cadets stay afterschool to try out for a spot on the Nationals team. “After they have tried out, we will look at stats and pick the top cadets, and the following week they will announce a team captain and the other cadets,” Senior Cadet Kira Conley said.

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