History
The Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps came into being with the passage of the National Defense Act of 1916. The focus of JROTC was on secondary schools. Under the provisions of the 1916 act, high schools were authorized the loan of federal military equipment and the assignment of active or retired military personnel as instructors on the condition that they followed a prescribed course of training and maintained a minimum enrollment of 100 students over 14 years of age.
The first official JROTC battalion in the nation was at Leavenworth High School in Leavenworth, Kansas in 1916. This was an Army program and is still operational.
The nation's first and only all JROTC high school, Delaware Military Academy, opened in 2003. Located in Wilmington, Delaware, DMA is a publicly funded charter high school that requires all students to participate as cadets in the Naval Junior Reserve Training Corps program.
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