ROTC receives award
By SHAWNNA ROBINSON
Farmington Press
Farmington Press
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
“The program has never had a freshman drill team commander before,” she said.
Brandon Womack was walking right beside her, in a matter of speaking, as he began his role as the Color Guard Commander.
On March 29, the Color Guard and Drill Team, most technically known as “Squad without (fire)arms”, successfully competed in a drill competiton. Eight cadets from Farmington High school’s Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp (AFJROTC) traveled to the Glenn C. Miller Career Academy in Sumner, Mo. for the 3rd annual General Roscoe Robinson/ Captain Wendell Pruitt Invitational Drill Meet.
The students participating in addition to Schultz and Womack were Amanda Couch, Brett Gutches, Travis Greenwood, William Elledge, Luke Church, and Jason Chandler.
The colorguard group brought home a first place trophy and the Drill Team recieved a second place award for squad sequence.
The Color Guard was able to take home a First Place trophy, a great honor considering the challenge they had before them. With numerous snow days and limited practice space, the team had to really scramble to get it all together.
“Thank goodness we had such a great commander, he really helped us learn our routine and we all had a lot of faith in him,” said Schulz about Womack.
A color guard drill sequence involves from 30 to 50 commands and the drill team memorizes an average of 60 commands.
The squad works to memorize the sequences before the competition, spending time outside of the school day going over their work.
Schulz says it was quite an accomplishment for the group considering the competition and some hurdles the group had to overcome, consisting of mainly their numbers.
“We started out this year with over twenty cadets, and now we have less than ten. But we went with all we had, and we walked away with a Second Place trophy in the squad without weapons division.”
“We were the only Air Force ROTC group — all the others were Army,” she said, “ We definitely stuck out.”
It was also more than she had ever expected a meet to be.
“I had attended some drill meets before, so that helped me to be prepared for what to expect,” she said. “It was a difficult journey getting there, but we did it.”
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