{"id":5188,"date":"2023-04-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=5188"},"modified":"2023-04-14T06:49:29","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T06:49:29","slug":"jrotc-cadets-at-camp-zama-enhance-teamwork-camaraderie-through-cadet-challenge-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=5188","title":{"rendered":"JROTC cadets at Camp Zama enhance teamwork, camaraderie through \u2018Cadet Challenge\u2019 event"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 Cadets with the Zama Middle High School Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps\u2019 Trojan Battalion conducted their \u201cCadet Challenge\u201d on Sagami General Depot, Tama Hills and Camp Zama during the first week of April.<\/p>\n

Douglas Fields, senior Army instructor for ZMHS JROTC, said that, true to its name, the event challenges cadets through both \u201cadventure\u201d and physical tasks such as a road march, rifle stimulation training, medical field training, land navigation and a physical fitness test.<\/p>\n

The cadets spend time leading up to the event improving their physical fitness and learning about team-building, and the Cadet Challenge is a weeklong capstone event that tests them on those skills, Fields said.<\/p>\n

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The event marks one of the first times the cadets are pushed to their physical and mental limits because they compete in much of the event while wearing their combat uniform and boots for challenges like a rigorous road march, Fields said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe main purpose was team- building and team bonding, and they all did really well demonstrating it,\u201d Fields said.<\/p>\n

Cadet Maj. Lumena Fennessey, the JROTC battalion executive officer, said, the Cadet Challenge was meant to encompass all of the skills she and the other cadets had learned, while also promoting teamwork and testing them on how much they have improved throughout the year.<\/p>\n

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Fennessey said her main goal was to not only try her best in the competition, but also to demonstrate her leadership skills as the executive officer. She hoped she was able to serve as a good example and push the other cadets to do their best, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we all really pushed through it and we all tried our hardest,\u201d Fennessey said. \u201cI am really proud of [the team].\u201d<\/p>\n

Team-building was a major aspect of the event, as well as motivating each other, she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI learned that teamwork means a lot more than a lot people think it does, because if you can work with everyone well enough, you are able to do… better than you are able to do individually,\u201d Fennessey said.<\/p>\n

Cadet Lt. Col. Bryan Ponce, the JROTC battalion commander, said the event was definitely a challenge, but he and the other cadets were able to get through it while also having fun.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving fun and challenging yourself, that\u2019s really what it\u2019s all about,\u201d \u00a0said Ponce said.<\/p>\n

The physical fitness test, which was the last event, was the biggest challenge for all the cadets, Ponce said, because they were tired from the previous days\u2019 events, but they all worked to push each other to finish strong.<\/p>\n

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\n Cadets with Zama Middle High School\u2019s Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps\u2019 Trojan Battalion conduct a one-mile run April 7 on Camp Zama during the battalion\u2019s Cadet Challenge event held in the first week of April.
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Ponce, a senior, said the goal he set for himself for the Cadet Challenge was to lead with everything he had. He said the event was successful because of how well the cadets worked together and how much belief they had in themselves to complete the event.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like the other cadets to know they don\u2019t have limits\u2014and if they did, they went beyond their limits today,\u201d Ponce said. \u201cI know that because I saw how they were running and pushing each other. They can go higher and higher, physically and mentally, with teamwork and camaraderie.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cadets with Zama Middle High School\u2019s Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps\u2019 Trojan Battalion conduct a ruck march April 3 on Sagami General Depot during the battalion\u2019s Cadet Challenge event held in the first week of April. (Photo Credit: Noriko Kudo) VIEW ORIGINAL CAMP ZAMA, Japan \u2013 Cadets with the Zama Middle High School Junior Reserve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5190,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5196,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions\/5196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}