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Plainview High School

Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps

(NJROTC)

UPCOMING EVENTS

Texas Tech Drill Meet 23FEB13 Lubbock, TX

Navy Carrier Monday 18FEB13

Navy Carrier Tuesday 19FEB13

No Uniform Wednesday 20FEB13

Preparation Thursday 21FEB13

Outdoor Sports/Preparation Friday 22FEB13

Team Practices

Monday MXC/G(1615) PT
(730&1615) MC/G (1615) SALES MEETING
(1605) ACADEMICS(1605)

Tuesday UD(1615) MC/G
(0700) FC/G(1615) AD
(1615) PT
(073&1615)

Wednesday MXC/G(1615) ACADEMICS
(1605)

Thursday UD
(1615) MC/G
(0700) FC/G(1615) AD
(1615) PT
(0730&1615)

Friday MXC/G(1615) PT
(0730&1615) MC/G(1615)

Contact Information

Address: 1501 Quincy Street Plainview, TX 79072

Phone: 806-296-3352 or 806-729-8006

Emails: eric.mears@plainview.k12.tx.us
Emails: dave.sandahl@plainview.k12.tx.us


NJROTC "GRAND CHAMPIONS" SAN ANGLELO, TX

Drill Team

The Drill Team is an exciting extension of the discipline, teamwork, and leadership skills learned in class. The team performs at all the JROTC ceremonies and inspections.

Teams can be male, female, or mixed. When they participate in local competition, they confer as much pride on their school as varsity team sports.

JROTC drill teams are considered an excellent means to creating appropriate attention, publicity, and interest in the JROTC program and for maintaining a high state of morale.

The drill team consists of approximately 10-19 cadets, including the drill team commander. All cadets are eligible for the drill team, but in order to be eligable you must first:

     Be an outstanding cadet.
     Willing to attend morning and afternoon practices.
     You must also learn self-discipline.
     And be willing to prove yourself against some of the best drill teams in your area.

                            Male Drill                                                                       Female Drill

Color Guard

The Color Guard Presents at many formations, reviews, parades, athletic, and official events throughout the year. All cadets are eligible to volunteer for the color guard provided they meet the following requirements:

      Be an outstanding cadet.
      Physically capable of performing at the events.
      You must also learn self-discipline -- and you must also keep out of trouble elsewhere.
      You must be able to attend practices both in the morning and in the afternoon.
    You must have the will to do what is asked of you to perform without fault.
     Be willing to go on trips to perform at other schools, towns and even states.

                       Male ColorGuard                                                        Female ColorGuard


Physical Fitness Some key factors to remember about PT: You have to be fit enough to withstand the excercise. Make sure to keep a steady pace no matter what the job is. Drink plenty of water and gaterade to keep hydrated. Stay active. Get involved. and most importantly have fun. PT team running the obstacle course on the Wayland campus

Academics

Key standards for Academics:

You must be a good competitor.
You must be able to work under pressure.
you must have good grades in the other parts of the school system.
Also you have to be willing to attend practices whether before or after school.

What Academics is about:

Having fun
Getting to know people
Learning fun and interesting facts about the world around us
Information you've acquired from NJROTC and other classes

Community Service

Community service is a program designed to get kids involved in their community by helping out at the elderly’s homes or cleaning up on our two mile strip of adopt-a-highway that we go clean every three months to ensure it looks good while citizens and visitors drive by.

What community service provides:

A way to keep kids out of trouble.
A way to keep the roads and other public places clean.

Marksmanship

Marksmanship is a competitive sport where you use air rifles to shoot at targets while in three different positions.

There is standing where you are standing up, kneeling where you are on one knee using the other to balance yourself on the floor to get a good shot, then there is prone where you are laying on your belly using both elbows to balance yourself while at a thirty degree angle to the target.

Key requirements:

Good steady hand

Be able to stand, or kneel for long periods of time

Practice long and hard every time you get a chance

The amount of effort put into training your skills directly affects your abilities
Lots of patience

Know what you’re doing

UNIT CADET OFFICERS AND CHIEFS

CO: C/LCDR Jordan Matsu
XO: C/LT Jalen Ibarra

Ops: C/LTJG Collen Jones
PAO: C/LTJG Rose Contreras

Adm: C/ENS Jamie Evrett
Sup: C/ENS Kevin Perez
           C/ENS Fernando Gonzales
           C/ENS Samson Weiss

MAA: C/SCPO Cassandra Contreras
           C/SCPO Andy Gomez
CMC: C/CPO Cynthia Luna

UNIT INSTRUCTORS

Senior Naval Science Instructor (SNSI)

Lieutenant Commander David P. Sandahl, USCG (ret.)

LCDR Sandahl

MILITARY BACKGROUND:

Coast Guard Active Duty 1987-1996
Coast Guard Reserve 1996-1998
Coast Guard Active Duty 1998-2011

Career first as an enlisted person and then as a commissioned officer in the marine safety program, responsible for all aspects of vessel inspections, marine casualty and personnel action investigations, and merchant mariner evaluations and examinations.

Later, worked in human performance technology and training, including human factors engineering, front end analysis and curriculum design and development.

Duty locations include: Cape May, NJ; Portland, OR; Yorktown, VA; Washington, DC; Yorktown, VA; Long Beach, CA; Toldeo, OH; Norfolk, VA; St. Louis, MO; Huntington, WV; San Diego, CA; Petaluma, CA and Baltimore, MD.

After retirement, served as SNSI for one year at Washington Technology Magnet NJROTC in St. Paul, MN, before coming to Plainview in the summer of 2012.

EDUCATION:

BA Oregon (1987), MAEd San Diego State (2005), Graduate Certificate in ESL Johns Hopkins (2011), TEFL Hamline (2011)

FAMILY

Spouse Miluska, Daughter Stacy

Naval Science Instructor (NSI)

Storekeeper First Class (SW) Eric D. Mears, USN (ret.)

MILITARY BACKGROUND

July 25, 1988 – July 31, 2008 served in the United States Navy (20 years, 06 days)

07/25/1988-10/01/1988 – Recruit Training Command San Diego, CA (Boot Camp)

10/02/1988-12/19/1988 – Defense Language Institute, Foreign Language Center, Naval Security Group, Monterey, CA (DLI FLC NSGD)

12/29/1988-12/20/1990 – U.S.S. Mauna Kea (AE-22), Naval Weapons Station Concord, Mare Island, Vallejo, CA

01/07/1991-02/01/1994 – Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

02/02/1994-05/06/1996 – Naval Communication Telecommunication Station, Keflavik Iceland

06/01/1996-11/25/2000 – U.S.S. Detroit (AOE-4), Naval Weapons Station Earle, Earle, NJ

02/01/2001-01/10/2004 – Naval Recruiting District San Antonio, Naval Recruiting Station Plainview, Plainview, TX

01/21/2004 -07/31/2008 - Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Seventy-four, Gulfport, MS

MILITARY AWARDS

                Navy & Marine Corps Commendation Medal (COM)
                Navy & Marine Corps Achievement Medal (NAM)w/ Silver Star [awarded 6 times]
                Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation Medal
                Navy Good Conduct Medal w/ 3 bronze stars [awarded 4 times]
                National Defense Service Medal w/ bronze star [awarded 2 times]
                Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal
                Southwest Asia Service Medal
                Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) Expeditionary Medal
                Navy Sea Service Ribbon w/bronze star [awarded 2 times]
                Navy & Marine Overseas Service Ribbon
                Navy Recruiting Service Ribbon
                North American Treaty Organization (NATO) Medal

EDUCATION

08/1979-05/1983 – Humble High School, Humble, TX
08/1983-08/1984 – Alvin Community College, Alvin, TX
09/1984-04/1988 – Oklahoma Christian University (OCU), Edmond, OK
08/1993-12/1993 – Blinn College, Bryan, TX
                                (transferred credits to Oklahoma Christian)
12/1993 – Awarded Bachelor of Science (Physical Education) of Education,
                  OCU, Edmond, OK
05/2011 – Currently enrolled in Masters of Sport Administration and
                  Management (Thesis), Liberty University, Lynchburg, VA

FAMILY

Cynthia E. Mears (Beals) – Wife (married 06/25/1988)
Erica A. Mears (b. 1990) – Daughter
Troy J. Mears (b. 1992) - Son
Caidance A. M. Mears (b 2010) - Granddaughter


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