Would you be able to help us with three things?

1. Would you be able to let your freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior JROTC cadets know about National Leadership Challenge Weekend?
2. Would you be able to gather feedback from your JROTC cadets on a video of our Blue Ridge Rifles Drill team?
3. Let your senior cadets know it is not too late to apply for the Army ROTC scholarship. 

The University of North Georgia is one of only six Senior Military Colleges in the nation with a Corps of Cadets numbering more than 650. We’ve commissioned more than 700 cadets as second lieutenants in the past seven years. 

National Leadership Challenge Weekend:

Our Corps of Cadets will host National Leadership Challenge (NLC) Weekend on 22 – 24 March 2024 for JROTC cadets and other high school students who are considering a military program in college. 

Your cadets will rappel down a sheer rock cliff at the Army’s Mountain Ranger Training Camp in Dahlonega, construct a rope bridge across a mountain stream, negotiate obstacle and leadership reaction course elements, observe demonstrations by UNG cadet organizations, and meet some of our cadets. Your cadets will be assigned to small teams, and current UNG cadets mentor and guide them through the weekend.

Participants sleep in rustic, 16-person cabins on bunk beds at Camp Wahsega, a 4-H Camp owned by the University System of Georgia, approximately one mile from the Mountain Ranger Camp, and about ten miles from campus. Men and women will occupy separate cabins.  

NLC Weekend is offered twice per year (spring and fall), and space is limited to 200 students. Web site for details and registration:  ung.edu/cadet/nlc

Please show them this NLC video: https://youtu.be/_34NkcmdBM8.

Blue Ridge Rifles Drill Team Video (DRAFT)

We need cadet feedback on this draft video:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1raySr916Zo6SHLDZwTvVOg3ZnKG81j9I/view

If you would, please just email me back with a sentence or two with general or specific recommendations for editing.

ARMY ROTC Scholarship

The final Army Cadet Command scholarship selection board will meet March 18-22, 2024. Your seniors should start their application no later than March 4, 2024 and complete by March 11, 2024 to be considered. Please go to this link for further details: https://ung.edu/military-college-admissions/costs-financial-aid/scholarships-and-grants/army-rotc-scholarship.php.

I hope the spring semester is going well for you at James Madison High School. If I have your rank wrong, please let me know. 

Thank you!

Brandon 

Brandon Knox
Director of Cadet Recruiting
Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army

University of North Georgia
32 College Circle
Dahlonega, Georgia 30597
706 867-4576

P.S. We know JROTC is an excellent character and leader development program, and we want your scholar-athlete-leader cadets in our Corps of Cadets. A ton of information can be found on this site: https://ung.edu/military-college-admissions/index.php