The school’s new Coast Guard JROTC unit is the 14th in the nation and the first in Hawaii. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story.

It will be a U.S. Coast Guard unit and is coming to Veterans Memorial High School for the 2024-25 school year. Five CCISD high schools will now have JROTC programs.

The unit is the fourth and largest Coast Guard JROTC established, and the second unit established under recently-expanded federal law. U.S. (Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Ayla Hudson) ...

It started with a boom. Emily Dukes veered into a parking lot near the Laurel Food Lion to avoid crushing vehicles, as she watched a man thrown from his own. Seeing him hit the ground, the 17-year ...

It is the only Coast Guard JROTC unit in Texas and one of only 14 in the United States. Students in the program also get a chance to be in the color guard at local high school football games.

Clinton Junior High School's Coast Guard Program welcomed a special guest Friday, Rear Admiral Zeita Merchant.Merchant is a Jackson native and the first African-American woman to hold the senior ...

The Coast Guard established a new Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program at Innovation High School in Orlando, Nov. 8. Innovation High School’s Coast Guard JROTC unit is the 12th in the ...

The Coast Guard is working to add a JROTC program in every Coast Guard District by 2025. The purpose of the program is to instill the values of citizenship and service in educational institutions ...

With the addition of the Coast Guard unit, five high schools in the Corpus Christi Independent School District offer JROTC programs. The district is also home to 13 schools with the prestigious ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM Rear Adm. Sean Regan, right, commander of the Coast Guard’s Fourteenth District, saluted Chief Petty Officer and cadet Ethan Gochu, left, Thursday during a ...

JAMM AQUINO / JAQUINO @STARADVERTISER.COM Rear Adm. Sean Regan, right, commander of the Coast Guard’s Fourteenth District, saluted Chief Petty Officer and cadet Ethan Gochu, left, Thursday ...