The Director of Army Instruction discusses summer camp which starts today. We are at Sam Houston State University making it happen.

Commander of Sam Houston State’s ROTC greets HISD cadets.

HISD’s deputy director of JROTC addresses cadets from the district. Fired up!

Walked across the stage ready to embark on a career of serving a grateful nation. And the Army goes rolling along…

Good morning from Sam Houston State University. HISD is up and ready!

Cadets wake up at 4am.Conduct hygiene. Get dressed. Standing in formation before 5am. HISD JROTC summer camp is running at 100 miles per hour.

JROTC teaches land navigation during the school year. Summer camp allows the cadets to put into practice what they learned during school. Now, it’s for real. Make the connection.

Summer camp is heating up.

At the end of every day, student leadership conducts a command and staff brief with the camp commander. This is a student led program with Army and Air Force Instructors serving as facilitators. Learn to lead!

HISD is up at 4:45 training drill and ceremony before first formation. It’s a tough life, but we don’t cry tears. We seek VICTORY!

This is how you start a class off right!!!

Nightly cadet staff briefing to camp commander led by Sam Houston’s battalion commander. She is ready to lead.

If it ain’t raining, we ain’t training! Let’s roll HISD!!!

HISD summer camp medical training is part of JROTC curriculum taught in class. Summer camp allows cadets for more practical exercises given scenarios.

Nightly staff brief at 1800. Cadets brief the camp commander on the training events of the day and practice how to communicate as professionals to professional Army officers.

Camp is over. We finished up the award ceremony at Sam Houston State and now we are headed back to Houston. HISD cadets rocked the house with the Cadet Creed to open the ceremony.

What a way to kick off the summer. HISD JROTC summer camp was 7 days of great training and fun. New friendships were formed. They all made it home safely. The food was good too…Thank you Sam Houston State University.

JROTC in Texas is now officially a CTE program. We will produce a certificate for four years of training. HB 120 for the win for the program. College/Military/Certifications for work. We support them all.

All of these cadets are from Houston. They are currently at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. The guy in the middle is a junior now and he is from Sam Houston MSTC They just completed summer training and got promoted. Life is good.

Class of 2023 alumnae enlisted today for US Army. We came to support her and her family in this special day in her life. She was a leader in our battalion and I’m glad she is where she always wanted to be… Go Army! Sam Houston MSTC