100 Years of JROTC, Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. What does that mean to you? To me that means the 100th Anniversary of a program that’s been focused on the creation, and bettering of highschool students into the best citizens they can be. Beginning from the “Yesterday” point of view, started in 1916 under the National Defense Act of 1916, JROTC was created under the authorization of loans of federal military equipment to schools, as well as authorized assignment of active military personnel to schools. Captain Alden Partridge founded the “American Literary, Scientific, and Military academy which is known as “The Birthplace of ROTC,” which is now Norwich University. The program was originally oriented towards the Army until it began offering
