AREA CADETS FARE WELL IN ACADEMIC BOUT.Byline: Marci Wormser Staff Writer EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - Desert High School finished first and Highland High School Highland High School or Highlands High School may refer to: In the United States:
The students answered questions derived from a military test for recruits as they competed in the Western division of the 14th annual Junior ROTC Academic Challenge, which drew teams from 29 schools this weekend to a Sacramento-area high school. ``This team really wanted it bad,'' said Master Sgt. Theresa Faulk, Desert High's Junior ROTC instructor. ``They came in an hour early before school, at 6 a.m., to study. They studied all Christmas break. ... They're just really motivated. They're just a great group of kids.'' Lancaster High School's Junior ROTC unit also competed, earning a team and an individual honor. Desert High has competed in the event for two years. Highland High students have competed for six years, and Lancaster High students were competing for the first time. In the competition, each student took written tests in culture and geography, mathematics and language as well as ``a super quiz'' on the World War II battle of Iwo Jima The Battle of Iwo Jima was fought between the United States and Japan in February and March 1945, during the Pacific Campaign of World War II. The U.S. invasion, known as Operation Detachment, was aimed at capturing the airfields on Iwo Jima. . Questions came from a standard military test given to potential recruits to determine the military occupations In most wars some territory is placed under the martial law of a hostile army. Most belligerent military occupations end with the cessation of hostilities. In some cases the occupied territory is returned and in others the land remains under the control of the occupying power but usually for which they are best suited. After the tests were over, the cadets competed in arm-wrestling. Desert cadets created pamphlets from the military tests on which the competition was based. They held four study sessions over the winter break and others during school at which they discussed how to answer the questions, Desert team members said. ``All of the cadets are pretty committed,'' said Desert Junior ROTC commander Chrysanta Patio patio In Spanish and Latin American architecture, a courtyard open to the sky within a building. A Spanish development of the Roman atrium, it is comparable to the Italian cortile but provides more seclusion, possibly due to Moorish custom. The patio of the contemporary U.S. , 17, a senior. ``I think for the most part we handled it pretty well.'' The teams were not made up entirely of straight-A students, but by competition rules had to be a mixture of students with grade-point averages between 2.5 and 3.0, between 3.0 to 3.5 and of 3.5 and higher. The competitions are held annually to encourage students that brain power is just as important as physical ability, said Lancaster Junior ROTC cadet Victoria Doud. Doud, a former shot put and discus discus /dis·cus/ (dis´kus) pl. dis´ci [L.] disk. dis·cus n. pl. dis·ci A flat circular surface; a disk. discus pl. disci [L.] 1. thrower, won the girls' arm wrestling arm wrestling or arm-wres·tling n. A form of wrestling in which two opponents sit facing each other with usually right hands interlocked and elbows firmly planted, as on a table surface, and attempt to force each other's arm down. competition. Junior ROTC programs - the acronym acronym: see abbreviation. A word typically made up of the first letters of two or more words; for example, BASIC stands for "Beginners All purpose Symbolic Instruction Code. stands for Reserve Officer Training Program - are high school versions of ROTC programs that qualify college students to become military officers after graduation. Enrollment in Junior ROTC programs is notably high at Antelope Valley high schools Antelope Valley High School is located in Lancaster, California and is part of the Antelope Valley Union High School District. It was founded in 1912[1]. It is located in the Mojave Desert. . There are approximately 300 Junior ROTC students at Lancaster and 100 at Highland, said Lancaster High Junior ROTC instructor Capt. Jim Carlson. Desert's Junior ROTC units consists of some 200 students, the majority of the school - not surprising for a campus on Edwards Air Force Base where almost every student has a parent in the Air Force. Eleventh-grader Laura Piper, 16, Desert Junior ROTC's finance officer, joined Junior ROTC because she is considering a military career. ``My father is in the military, and his father was, and my mother's father was,'' Piper said. Piper placed first in the Iwo Jima Iwo Jima (ē`wō jē`mə, ē`wô), Jap. Io-jima, volcanic island, c.8 sq mi (21 sq km), W Pacific, largest and most important of the Volcano Islands. Mt. super quiz. Her grandfather fought and was wounded there. In addition to bringing home top honors in the overall competition and Piper's first in the Super Quiz, Desert placed second as a team in the geography category. Patio brought home second place in the all-around individual category and Grant Pacheco won second place in boys' arm wrestling. In addition to placing third overall, Highland High students placed third as a team in the Super Quiz and second in math. Lancaster High students brought home a team third in the culture and geography category. |
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