Liberty Battalion Army ROTC

Fall Labs

The fall Lab was the first time for many cadets to experience what ROTC is all about. It was a chance to learn from senior cadets and allow them to practice leadership and mentoring skills by instructing classroom exercises and leading land navigation groups for the first year cadets. Also, they were given the opportunity to meet with parents of cadets and explain to them exactly what ROTC is and what it will do for their children. Each person was able to walk away from the weekend having learned and experienced something new, whether it was how to carry your battle buddy off the field or how to teach an MSL I how to plot an azimuth. The whole weekend was a great opportunity to learn through experience and teaching, which is in my opinion the best way to learn. Many of us tripped and stumbled through classroom exercises or got a little lost during land navigation; but these mistakes were what helped us learn and improve during the weekend and as an ROTC cadet.

Written by CDT Pamela Carvalho

Ranger Challenge

During the competition, cadets from Liberty Battalion spent a long weekend in October showing their stuff. The events were the obstacle course, leader’s reaction course, day and night land navigation, basic rifle marksmanship, a mystery event, weapons assembly and disassembly and, of course, the Army physical fitness test. During this year’s Eastern Region Ranger Challenge Team Competition, Liberty Battalion MSII Glory Williamson-O’Neil took home a prize for achieving the top physical fitness score. O’Neil scored a 390 on the extended scale; an accomplishment, she said, made possible only through hard work. O’Neil said she joined the Ranger Challenge team not only to better prepare herself for LDAC, which she will attend in a couple years, but mostly for fun. And yet even though O’Neil scored high on her PT test, she said the accomplishment that she was most proud of during competition was getting to be a member of the team.

Written by CDT Kelly Sullivan