Photo By Chief Petty Officer Amanda Kitchner | 191019-N-IY633-2111 ITHACA, N.Y. (Oct. 19, 2019) – Midshipmen and cadets begin a 5k...... read more read more
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ITHACA, N.Y. (NNS) -- Future military officers made the trip to Cornell University to participate in the Cornell University Invitational Drill Competition (CUIDC), Oct. 19.
The Cornell Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) unit-hosted competition was attended by teams from seven universities in the greater north-east coastal area, spanning all branches of the armed services.
“This is a great opportunity for the midshipmen and cadets to have a great day of competition,” said Capt. Tony Roach, commanding officer of the Cornell University NROTC unit. “Our midshipmen have done a great job at organizing this event and I hope that the attendees of CUIDC enjoy the opportunity to strive for excellence, build camaraderie, and the competition that CUIDC provides.”
The competition began with an opening ceremony and main drill competition which consisted of squad basic, platoon basic, platoon trick, color guard, and two-man trick exhibitions. During and following the drill competition, fitness events for both attendees and staff were held including push up, sit up, 5k run, freestyle swim, swim relay, sprint relay, a staff fitness challenge, and fitness medley. The day wrapped up with an individual drill event where attendees could compete to see who was the most proficient at executing drill commands quickly and properly for individual awards.
“I think that my team did an excellent job putting this together, and I contribute it to each team leader taking charge of the area assigned to them, they each made their responsibilities their own and executed them with care and attention and that’s what made this event go so smoothly,” said Midshipman 1/c Fletcher Kirol, Cornell NROTC’s bravo company commander and midshipman in charge of the drill competition. “I’m blessed to have been able to head this up and see my guys put love and care into such a large undertaking, this experience will help them in the future getting to know their teams and using their strengths to their advantage. I also hope our counterparts in the other units come away from this event with connections and camaraderie among each other and the sense of being part of something bigger than themselves.”
The U. S. Naval Academy won overall 1st place for the event with six 1st place awards, one 2nd place award, and two 3rd place awards. In 2nd place was University of Rochester with two 1st place awards, five 2nd place awards, and two 3rd place awards. In 3rd place was Rutgers University with one 1st place award, two 2nd place awards, and six 3rd place awards.
“Our drill team is incredible, they come here and do well every year so we knew they would show up ready this year,” said Midshipman 1/c Robert Briggs, president of the Naval Academy Physical Team. “We ended up doing extremely well and I’m very pleased about that. We put a lot of training in after school hours to prepare for events like this, both the physical team and drill team and it’s definitely paid off.”
The NROTC program is supported by Rear Adm. Jamie Sands and his NSTC staff at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, and Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. NROTC was established to develop midshipmen mentally, morally and physically. The program also imbues in them the highest ideals of duty, loyalty and Navy core values in order to commission college graduates as Naval officers who possess a basic professional background, are motivated toward careers in the Naval service and have potential for future development in mind and character so as to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.
NSTC supports 98 percent of initial officer and enlisted accessions training for the Navy, as well as the Navy’s Citizenship Development program. NSTC’s support also includes RTC at Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, the NROTC program at more than 160 colleges and universities, Officer Training Command (OTC) at Newport, Rhode Island and Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) and Navy National Defense Cadet Corps (NDCC) citizenship development programs at more than 600 high schools worldwide.
For more information on NROTC visit: www.nrotc.navy.mil/.
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| Date Taken: | 10.19.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 10.21.2019 15:31 |
| Story ID: | 348493 |
| Location: | ITHACA, NEW YORK, US |
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