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CA Johnson Preparatory Academy ROTC Cadets Impacting Students Around the World
For months, CAJ cadets have been tirelessly assembling and packaging award ribbons and packets that will be presented to 4,000 JROTC units worldwide-that’s about 500,000 students. These separate yearlong projects were honors bestowed upon the cadets at the request of two prestigious organizations: the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, Inc. and the local Celebrate Freedom Foundation. In addition to assembling more than 900 packets for the Tuskegee Airmen Inc. cadet award project, the CA Johnson cadets prepared and delivered a report on their project at the Tuskegee Airmen National Convention in Philadelphia in July. At the Convention, cadets met a number of Air Force legends and pioneers including Dr. Roscoe Brown, the first African-American to shoot down a jet aircraft in combat, and Lt. Col. Lee Archer, the only living Black Ace aviator. CAJ Air Force JROTC Senior Aerospace Science Instructor Col. Walter Watson is very proud of his students. "I believe it’s significant that two outstanding organizations have entrusted my students to perform these duties for them," said Watson. "The Tuskegee project alone will touch and inspire nearly 107,000 Air Force JROTC cadets and the scope and impact of the new Celebrate Freedom cadet award program will be even larger." At the request of the local Celebrate Freedom Foundation and Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, CAJ cadets have prepared award packages that will be delivered to every Air Force, Army and Navy JROTC unit in the world-a feat that has never been done in the history of the JROTC. The worldwide impact of this project has the potential of reaching 4,000 JROTC units with more than 500,000 students enrolled internationally. For more information please contact the Richland One Office of Communications at 231-7504 or 231-7510.
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A cool half-million-that’s the number of JROTC cadets around the world that will be impacted by two service projects undertaken by C.A. Johnson (CAJ) Preparatory Academy Air Force JROTC cadets this summer.