Jrotc Reflection

As I reflect on the various courses taken over the years of my high school career, it has come to somewhat of a surprise that I have determined JROTC to be the class that has had the greatest impact on me. Only participating in this class my freshman year, I can confidently say that I learned and experienced so much. The first reason behind my choice goes all the way back to my earlier education. I had no preconceived notions of what the class entailed, nor any way to reliably predict how i’d perform. Core classes such as math or english begin with a knowledge base that students begin to learn as toddlers; while JROTC was begun with no experience or physical/emotional background in that environment. I had to learn to be evaluated by corp ideologies/standards that I wasn’t familiar with and I had to learn the lesson of acceptance when my own personal reasoning wasn’t a factor. …show more content…
It was the first time the emphasis was placed on the group, not in the individual abilities and skills. Adapting to others personalities and putting differences aside to function as a whole was the key to success. I learned my individual strengths, became confident in them, and used them to learn how to lead. But, I remained humble with my weaknesses and deferred them. Now, group work does take place in other classes, but typically group work in other subject is much smaller and is self-chosen. It’s also short-term compared to that of the JROTC program. At the beginning of the semester, you are put in your groups, which tend to be people you don’t know, and that is your group for all 18