Step by Step
This term describes the precise movements and formations cadets perform to build discipline, teamwork, and military bearing.
What is drill?
Wearing the uniform correctly shows these two qualities toward yourself and JROTC.
What is pride and respect?
The Wright Flyer stayed in the air for this long during the first controlled, sustained, powered flight on December 17, 1903.
What is 12 seconds?
The network of long, narrow ditches soldiers used for protection and fighting during the war.
What is trenches?
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor occurred on this date
What is December 7, 1941?
Cadets maintain this when their shoulders and chest are aligned with the cadet next to them.
What is dress?
This term refers to a set of moral principles that guide a person’s behavior or the way an activity is conducted
What is Ethics?
Before attempting powered flight, the Wright brothers experimented extensively with these, helping them master lift and control.
What are gliders?
This country's 1917 entry into the war brought fresh troops and resources to the Allies.
What is the United States?
By temporarily crippling the Pacific Fleet, Japan hoped to protect their access to these lifelines for their war machine.
What are natural resources ( e.g. oil, iron, rubber)?
This command is given to turn a formation 180 degrees while remaining in place, requiring precise pivoting and timing.
What is about face?
Daily Double
When implementing the concept of Constancy of Purpose, you need to think like a STAR using these 4 steps:
Unlike modern planes, the pilot of the Wright Flyer was positioned like this—hands on controls, feet nowhere near pedals.
What is lying on his stomach / prone?
This secret message from Germany to Mexico promised territory if Mexico joined the war against the U.S.
What is the Zimmermann Telegram?
During the attack on Pearl Harbor, this many U.S. battleships were destroyed or damaged, and this many aircraft carriers were hit.
What is 8 and 0?
Daily Double!
These four terms refer to maintaining proper alignment and spacing between cadets in a formation, ensuring everyone looks uniform and marches correctly.
This “superpower” lets cadets keep smiling when their drill partner trips over their own feet, their uniform is wrinkled, or they realize the next inspection is today.
What is Positive Mental Attitude (PMA)?
The Wright Flyer turned left or right using this method, which twisted the wings to tilt the aircraft in the desired direction.
What is wing warping?
Troops from territories across the globe, including India, Canada, and Australia, were deployed to fight in Europe; they were called this.
What is colonial troops / colonial soldiers?
By failing to destroy this vital resource at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Pacific Fleet had the resource it needed to sail again, turning Japan’s “perfect attack” into a temporary setback.
What is oil?
This drill movement keeps a formation moving in place without advancing forward.
What is Mark Time?
In ethics, this term means being accountable for your actions or duties, making sure you own what you do.
What is Responsibility?
He is considered the first person to achieve controlled powered flight
Who is Orville Wright?
The assassination of this heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne sparked the start of WWI.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
The result of the attack was a shift in U.S. public opinion, ending isolationism and leading to this major action the next day
What is declaration of war on Japan / entry into WWII?