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JROTC
Gets Insight to Army Guard:
Guardsmen
Give Future Soldiers
Look at Military Occupations, Hardware
 Junior Army
Reserve Officer Training Corps students from Tifton’s Tift County High
School met recently with Georgia Army National Guard recruiters,
aviators and soldiers at Henry Tift Myers Airport for an orientation
flight and a look at the Army Guard’s M2 Bradley fighting vehicle.
About 128 students and their instructors talked with
crewmembers of a CH-47 helicopter assigned to Savannah’s Detachment 1,
Company F, 131st Aviation. Afterward the students boarded the helicopter
four different times for a 20-minute flight over Tifton. Hosting the
JROTC classes aboard the aircraft were Chief Warrant Officer 2 William
Johnson; Chief Warrant Officer 2 Lance Brennan; Staff Sgt. Jeff Earhart
and Staff Sgt. Chris Reynolds.
 While they waited their turn, the students looked
over the Bradley put on static display by Tifton’s Headquarters
Company, 2nd Battalion, 121st Infantry Regiment. First Sgt. Phillip Springfield, Headquarters Company’s first sergeant, and six of his
soldiers answered questions from the students about the vehicle, their
jobs and what it’s like to be an Army Guardsman. Questions about the
Georgia Army National Guard were also fielded by Sgt. 1st Class Whitney
Mitchell, who mans the Guard’s Tifton recruiting office, and Master
Sgt. Dale Shanklin, who heads up Recruiting and Retention Team 7 out of
Albany.
At one point, area reporters from the local newspaper
and radio station arrived at the airport to cover the event after seeing
Company F’s Chinook circling the town. After seeing the CH47 flying
around, reporter from local newspaper and radio came out and covered the
event. Shanklin said he assured them that no emergency existed, and that
it only was an orientation for the JROTC.
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