Car wash Saturday, May 10^th  

1000 - 1500 (10:00 am to 3:00 p.m.)

Valero gas station corner of Main and Wenger in Englewood

Call your friends and family and invite them to our car wash to raise money for this summers Leadership camp fees.

Please help fill our vending machine 

by donating vending size concessions such as chips, candy, crackers and cookies of all varieties.  Bring your donations to the ROTC room.  Thank you.

Annual Award Ceremony 

On Wednesday May 7th the award ceremony was held in the high school gym.  Along with the distribution of multiple awards from the unit there were also a number of honored guests who presented awards and medals to deserving cadets. During the ceremony the seniors were recognized and new billets were filled. The senior staff presented a gift for LtCol. Knotts and SCPO Griffin. The positions of the commanding officer and command master chief were established to Taylor Corcoran as commanding officer and to Drew Chestnut as Command master chief. Thank you for all who participated and supported the ceremony and the unit this past year.   

Ebbertt Technical Center 

Sea Knight Mega Drill and Field Meet

April 18^th and 19^th Northmont’s Navy JROTC unit finished strong at the “Mega Meet”  at Ebbertt High School in Anderson, Indiana.  Northmont’s teams consisted of freshman, sophomores, and juniors with the leadership coming from this year’s seniors.  The teams placed first in Unarmed Exhibition and Color Guard, second in the Unit Leader competition.  The Air Rifle finished 3rd. The Orienteering, Academics and Unarmed IDR teams received fourth place trophies and our Athletic team received 5^th.  Ebbertt’s Mega Meet had 13 schools in attendance from as far away as Minnesota.  Northmont finished 3^rd place overall and, more importantly, with all of this years team members coming back…the future looks bright!  

Northmont NJROTC in the community

Northmont’s NJROTC will be involved in several community service projects.  

The Color Guard will kick off the annual Relay For Life event at the Good Samaritan stadium on May 2nd at 6 p.m.  This event is very important event to raise awareness for cancer and the funds for cancer research.  Please plan to attend to show your support

Also, the Color Guard will be presenting our Nation’s Colors at the Milton Eagles on May 17^th at noon.  

Many cadets will be at Friendship Village, 5790 Denlinger Road just 1 ½ miles from the I-70 Englewood exit,  teaming up with Operation Show Our Love (OpSOL).  The cadets, along with the veteran residents, will be packing items for our overseas troops.  The community can help by dropping off items to pack before the May 19^th packing party.  For more information call Pam Hall at 837-5581 ext 269.  

Lastly the Color Guard and Staff will be present at Northmont High School’s Memorial Service at 10:00 Saturday morning, May 24^th with the Colors presented by the Unit and a speech made by our PAO, among others from the community.

The San Diego Trip was a Huge Success!

Despite a rough start (one of the flights was cancelled and a group of 24 cadets was rerouted via three alternate flights) all made it to San Diego on the day scheduled .  This alternate routing gave one of the groups a chance to see the Statue of Liberty on their way to San Diego!  

Our San Diego trip included many actives including touring the bay on an ACU troop transport ship, visiting the SEAL/BUDS training, a tour of the USS Peleliu (LHA5) and touring the Naval Aircraft Rework Facility.  We also visited the Wild Animal Park, Point Loma Light House at  Cabrillo National Monument, Mt Soledad Memorial, Sunset Cliffs and Seaport Village.  This trip was one of our best thanks to the planning and execution of the Cadet Staff and the chaperons who volunteered their time.

Sunset in Coronado

Cruising San Diego Harbor  

11th Annual Military Ball

The unit celebrated it's 11th Annual Military Ball with an Arabian Nights theme.  Our guests of honor were Chris and Cindy St John from Operation Show Our Love and SgtMjr Himsworth from the 2nd Expeditionary Force out of Camp Lejeune.  SgtMjr Himsworth presented c/LCDR Hawes and the Unit with a flag flown at Camp Al Taqaddum in Iraq as a thanks for the Unit's help with Operation Show Our Love.  An article about the event was presented in the Dayton Daily News on Thursday, January 31st.  Below is a link to the article.

http://www.daytondailynews.com

Up Coming Events

	18 -19 April - Ebbertt Technical Center Sea Knight Mega Drill and Field Meet
	19 April -  Hard Scrabble Baseball Tourney Parade, Clayton, OH
	29 April  - Incoming NS1's meeting in the High School Auditorium
	3 May - Car Wash at Velero gas station on the corner of Taywood and Main
	7 May - Awards Ceremony 7 p.m. (cadets arrive at 6 p.m.)
	17 May - Milton Eagle Memorial Service
	19 May - Operation Show Our Love packing event at the Friendship Village in Trotwood
	25 May - Graduation at the Nutter Center

More details on above events can be found on our

NJROTC Unit Calendar 

The Unit Calendar link can also be found in the left toolbar 

Northmont NJROTC helps with Operation Show Our Love

Check out the Thursday, January 24, Northwest edition of the Dayton Daily News in the Neighbors section for a detailed article on the cadets efforts in helping Operation Show Our Love get much sought after items to troops and refugees through out the world.  

Dayton Daily's Article link is:

www.daytondailynews.com

Visit Operation Show Our Love (OpSOL) website for more information at: 

http://operationshowourlove.org/

See the OpSOL video here!

OpSOL Video 7.32m WMV