First Friday Briefing

JROTC cadets exit a UH60-Black Hawk

Aviation, Recruiting Work with Rome JROTC

Assets of Marietta’s 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation and the Georgia Army National Guard’s Demonstration and Recruiting Team (DART) met April 29 with members of Rome High School’s Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) in an effort to acquaint the Corps’ 58 cadets about the National Guard and its mission.

During the visit, the cadets and their instructors received briefings from a 171st aircrew member about the capabilities of the Black Hawk helicopter and its role in Guard aviation. After the brief, students were taken on orientation flights in the skies above Rome to give them an up-close look at the Black Hawk.

As one group of cadets left the aircraft, another climbed aboard. Those who had returned met with and asked questions of DART team members and looked over the team’s Patriot Humvee.

The event at Rome High School was coordinated by Sgt. 1st Class Tommy Jacobs, the recruiter who works out of the Rome armory, Chief Master Sgt. Larry Henderson who teaches Aerospace Science to the cadets and Lt. Col. George Barr who heads up Rome’s JROTC program.

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