AFJROTC & Williamstown High SchoolThe Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFJROTC) NJ-20003 was first established and activated on 1 July 2000 at Williamstown High School, NJ, under Special Order GA-0064, Department of the Air Force, Headquarters Air University, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, dated 20 March 2000.
Williamstown High School’s AFJROTC NJ-20003 is one of the units established in New Jersey and one of the 45 new units established across the United States and the world in the year 2000. Everything you need to know about our unit and AFJROTC can be found in the Cadet Handbook that each cadet receives in the beginning of the year.
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The mission of the AFJROTC program is to “Develop Citizens of Character Dedicated to Serving their Nation and Community.”
The goals of the program are to instill values of citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment in high school students. The objectives of AFJROTC are to educate and train high school cadets in citizenship: promote community service: instill responsibility, character, and self discipline: and provide instruction in air and space fundamentals. With these objectives the cadets will develop:
1. A knowledge of and appreciation for the traditions of the Air Force. 2. Basic military skills. 3. Habits of orderliness and precision. 4. A high degree of personal honor, self-reliance, and leadership. 5. An appreciation of the basic elements and requirements for national security. 6. Respect for and an understanding of the need for constituted authority in a democratic society. 7. Patriotism and an understanding of their personal obligation to contribute to national security. 8. Broad-based knowledge of the aerospace age and fundamental aerospace doctrine. 9. An interest is completing high school and pursuing higher educational goals or skills. 10. An understanding of the Air Force and military as a possible career path. |