My Last JROTC Summer Camp

This past week has been one of the best, and also one of the saddest camps I've attended. It was one of the best because I had an awesome time, and made sooo many new friends. It was one of the saddest because it was my last JROTC camp I'll ever attend now that I'm a rising senior. It was a camp called JLEAD, a JROTC camp dedicated to teaching cadets how to be an effective leader, and the different types of leadership. It was a very good camp, granted, some parts were slightly boring, especially when we had 4 hour lectures on caldendar planning, but hey, that gives me notes to help you guys be effective at organizing =) However, the friends I made there were amazing, and I had soooo much fun.

To start with the basics, I was in Bravo Company, 1st Platoon, 3rd squad (in case theres anybody that went there that's reading this.) Me and one of my really good friends, Samantha, were bunkmates. We were told that we would have twin beds, and we both use Queens at our house. So we both had to look through storage and find our old twin sheets from when we were little. She managed to find her cute green sheets from when she was eight. I on the other hand could only find plain white.... and it lookedl ike a hospital bed. Wow. If you look to the right of the picture, the one with the two bunks, you'll see a broom. Yes, that half sized broom became a very important instrument. In our halways, we were told that at nighttime we had to keep our doors open, safety precautions about the boys sneaking over and such. However, I could have sworn that some of the girls on my hallway were guys, they dressed and looked like males, except they had boobs. So me and Sam used the broom to set up an alarm system. We placed it slanted against our dorm, that way if anybody walked into our room at night, it would clatter against the ground. Haha, yeah it wasn't very effective, my other friend ran into our room, and jumped over the broom. Sam was like, "what?! NO! kasey; your not supposed to step OVER our alarm ! go out & try this again" lol.

I made so many friends while I was there. There were friends that I recognized from last year when i went, and I reunited with them. There were tonsss of new friends. If you look in the picture to your right, the guy on the far left, and the guy on the left beside me were best friends, and had a Russian accent. They literally cracked me up every time I talked to them, and made the trip sooo funny. The guy being held up in the blue was sooo sweet and he was like my soul brotha, we were so alike. Ohhh and of course thats Sam right beside me. haha, I've never been complimented so much as I was that one week, there were so many sweet guys who told me how beautiful, funny, pretty, or smart, I was. It seriously makes you laugh and feel really good about yourself, because you're looking your abosolute worst with your hair back, and in a bulky uniform, and theres still cute guys telling you that you look good, talk about a major confidence boost =)
I know it sounds so corny, but i definetly made friends that I'll never forget. The two Russian guys were so hard to become friends with. (One of them is really Russian, but both just fake the accent.) They had a wall up and wouldn't really speak to anybody. However, during the camp, they took us to this place where there were tons of obstacle courses. It was during one of the last events that I bonded with the actualy Russian guy, his names Peter. We had to help each other get across the Low Ropes Course and it definetly helped us bond. Once I got through Peter, it was easier to get to Riley, his best friend, who really wasn't Russian. We all became good friends, and I was soo sad to see them leave.


In case I previously forgot to mention the major details, the camp was held at North Georgia State and College University. If you are considering taking the ROTC route in college, North Georgia is a great place. The barracks are decent, the food is pretty good, the facilities are really nice, and it's one of the six Senior colleges in the United States. (The others being: Norwich University in Vermont, Texas A&M Univeristy, the Citadel, Virginia Military Institute, and Virginia Tech) In case you don't know what a Senior Military College is, it means that you cant be deployed while you're in college. So you don't have to worry about having to stop during the mildde of school and being shipped overseas to fight in the war. North Georgia is ranked in the top 5 cheapest colleges in the US, and honestly i don't see how, because their campus is beautiful. It's a smaller to medium college with 5000 students if you're interested in that, and they have great scholarship programs. North Georgia also commisions more 3 star generals then even West Point, so that's a pretty cool fact.

Anyways, enough about the college. I had an amazing time there, and made so many great friends and memories. If you have a chance to go to this camp, you should because you'll meet so many amazing people and learn so many amazing things. Although this camp was very bittersweet, it was well worth the time, money and energy to go there. I hope this blog post wasn't too boring! I'll keep updating =)

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