On Friday, 10 July Middletown High School NJROTC cadets Lilian Samuel, Nick Weier, and Zachary Fuller graduated from the Navy's Area Four NJROTC Leadership and Sail Training Academy, or LA/ST. Each year the academy accepts 144 cadets from NJROTC host schools throughout the northeast who then participate in two rigorous weeks of training including honors and ceremonies, military drill, personnel inspections, room inspections, physical training, and sail training, which is conducted on Narragansett Bay. Graduates, who represent the "best of the best," are then expected to return to their schools and assume positions of leadership.
Cadet Lieutenant Junior Grade Lilian Samuel, MHS class of 2016, will serve as Alfa Company commander. Cadet Lieutenant Junior Grade Nicholas Weier, MHS class of 2016, will serve as battalion academics officer, and cadet Lieutenant Junior Grade Zachary Fuller, MHS class of 2017, will serve as battalion operations officer.
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Left to right: Cadets Fuller, Samuel, and Weier
(Note: It's not that Nick is freakishly tall, just that the other two are kind of short.) |
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The 2015 LA/ST cadet staff and color guard
at the graduation parade held at Naval Station Newport, Newport, Rhode Island, 10 July 2015 |
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