WASHINGTON - The Coast Guard is establishing four new Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) units for the 2023-24 school year, bringing the national total to 10. The new units will be located at high schools in Clinton, Miss.; Saraland, Ala.; Chicago and San Diego. It is the largest one-year expansion of JROTC units is the program’s history, which began in 1989. The CGJROTC program currently includes some 500 cadets across six high schools in Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida. The Coast Guard JROTC develops cadets using the COAST model, an acronym for our 5-fold pillars of Citizenship, Operations, Advancement, Service, and Teamwork. The National Defense Authorization Act 2023 provided specific direction for the program’s future to establish and maintain a JROTC unit in every Coast Guard District by December 31, 2025. The six JROTC units are currently located in two of the CG’s nine Districts. This year's expansion adds three for a total of five districts with active JROTC units. (Coast Guard 01/25/23)
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