Pine Ridge High School - AFJROTC

AFJROTC

Pine Ridge High School has their very own award winning Junior ROTC program. The FL-941 Cadet Group participates in many Activities such as; Parades, Community Service Projects, Campouts, Summer Leadership Schools, and Drill Competitions. As well as contains many extra curricular teams such as the "Golden Vengeance" Ceremonial Team (Drill Team and Color Guard), the "Spitfire" Orienteering Team, and an Armed Drill Team. The Motto for the Group is "To build better citizens through active citizenship." The school no longer has those teams, however they still have the AFJROTC program.

AFJROTC Drill Awards include:

• 2001 NHSDTC (All Service Nationals) 3rd Place Overall
• 2001 NHSDTC (All Service Nationals) 1st Place Color Guard
• 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004 State Champions (First team ever to do three years in a row)
• 2004 Air Force National Champions
• 2004 Southeast Regional Champions
• In 2004 the Ceremonial team had its record year, finishing with 7 overall trophies out of 8 meets. The team was led by Cadets Burke & Inthachack(Drill Team) and Cadet Gonzales(Color Guard) and coached by SMSGT Olszewski(Drill Team) & Col.Vick(Color Guard)

The Program is commanded by Col. W. Wright (Ret.) and SMSGT Olszewski (Ret.).