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Navy to Disestablish 29 NJROTC Units

Navy News Service

Story Number: NNS110718-12
7/18/2011

From Naval Service Training Command Public Affairs

GREAT LAKES (NNS) -- The Navy announced that it will disestablish 29 Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) units, effective June 30, 2012.

The 29 units are currently on probationary status for failure to meet statutory and regulatory minimum student enrollment standards.

"Our goal is to maintain a high-quality program that ensures the full range of NJROTC activities are available for participating students across the nation and overseas," said Rear Adm. David F. Steindl, commander, Naval Service Training Command (NSTC), which oversees more than 600 NJROTC units at accredited high schools across the nation. "We are extremely proud of what the NJROTC program offers participating students, so it was important for us to work with each non-compliant high school and continue to support the NJROTC program as long as possible. However, due to projected future funding levels, it is no longer possible to maintain NJROTC units that fail to meet minimum enrollment requirements and are not in compliance with program directives."

Title 10 United States Code, Chapter 102, Section 2031, and Department of Defense Directives require a minimum enrollment of qualified students for NJROTC units. For host schools with a total enrollment of 1,000 or more, the minimum enrollment number is 100. Where schools have less than 1,000 students enrolled, a minimum of 10 percent of the total enrollment is required.

The specific units to be disestablished are Waiakea High School (Hilo, Hawaii); Sterling High School (Somerdale, N.J.); Mountain Home High School (Mountain Home, Ark.); Greenwood High School (Bowling Green, Ky.); Dundalk High School (Dundalk, Md.); Shawnee Heights High School (Tecumseh, Kan.); West High School (Knoxville, Tenn.); Mountain View High School (Bend, Ore.); Cross Keys High School (Atlanta, Ga.); Eureka High School (Eureka, Calif.); Issaquah High School (Issaquah, Wash.); Alvarez High School (Salinas, Calif.); Florin High School (Sacramento, Calif.); Cairo High School (Cairo, Ga.); Bastrop High School (Bastrop, Texas); Richard King High School (Corpus Christi, Texas); Mariner High School (Everett, Wash.); East Hall High School (Gainesville, Ga.); Escambia County High School (Atmore, Ala.); Tabb High School (Yorktown, Va.); Pasadena High School (Pasadena, Calif.); Opelousas High School (Opelousas, La.); Crossett High School (Crossett, Ark.); Wall High School (Wall, N.J.); Franklin High School (Livonia, Mich.); Grenada High School (Grenada, Miss.); Durfee High School (Fall River, Mass.); West High School (Salt Lake City, Utah); and Lincoln High School (Stockton, Calif.).

NJROTC is a citizenship development program that instills in students at secondary educational institutions the values of citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility and a sense of accomplishment. The NJROTC curriculum emphasizes citizenship and leadership development. The classroom instruction is augmented throughout the year by community service activities, team competitions, visits to naval activities, marksmanship training, and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) seminars.

Qualifying secondary educational institutions may apply for a Navy National Defense Cadet Corps (NNDCC) unit as an alternative to the NJROTC program.

"The NNDCC program is modeled on the NJROTC program, but is primarily funded by host schools," Steindl said. "NNDCC units use the NJROTC curriculum, and gain the same values of citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility and a sense of accomplishment as do the cadets in the NJROTC program."