A Helping Hand for the Cadets of Hollywood High
December 10th, 2008 | Published in Featured, Recruitment, Video | 3 Comments
Does the military’s 92-year-old Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program benefit inner-city high schools or line up fresh recruits? Jean Yung takes a look at Hollywood Senior High’s Army Junior ROTC program.
This story will appear as part of an upcoming episode of Impact, the award-winning television news magazine produced by journalism students at the USC Annenberg School for Communication.
March 20th, 2009at 7:44 pm(#)
Excellent story and fair to both sides of the divide. The issue is under-reported, but complicated.
One of the premises of those who oppose military recruitment almost imply that the military as a whole entitity is an evil institution. They only take orders ultimately from a commander-in-chief who should be serving the interests of the American people.
It’s one thing to oppose a war or military action, but thousands of men and women proudly wear the uniform.
April 21st, 2010at 3:06 pm(#)
I throughly enjoyed this report, Students look for a path to a better place and JROTC offers it. The position that JROTC takes the poor and disadvantaged to support a tryannical movement to wage war so the entitled won’t have too is silly at best.
I liked hearing from the students. Youth is a wonderful thing. They see what they can become through which the program provides. The Americans I look up to the most are those that give the most and that is our service members.
May 22nd, 2010at 12:02 pm(#)
I hope and believe that this video has thought many people what JROTC program is really about. As a formal JROTC cadet i enjoyed participating in this video and informing people that JROTC is not a recurting class. JROTC offers you many oppurtonities to become a better speaker or to make friends. SGT Adams will always help out any cadet whether its a school problem or a personal problem. People must realize what JROTC is really about and this video showed it.