Eureka High School NJROTC

After a sixteen hour drive, cadets form a platoon formation and await their room assignments.

Cadets arrive at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, check in for their rooms for the week ahead.

It was a long ride to SD but we made it without incident and all of the cadets were glad to finally be on base. Every cadet got their room and unpacked and got ready for the week ahead.

With the huge crowd at the Spring Valley Swap meet, it took the six cars in our convoy about fifteen minutes to find parking.

Cadet Jackie Banuelos shows off one of the many treasures found at the SpringValley swap meet.

After the swap meet, all cadets were present and accounted for but a few dollars were not.

After morning chow we headed for the famous Spring Valley Swap Meet. The cadets were excited to shop for bargain basement deals and haggle with the local merchants.

Hello, from NJROTC! I’m cadet Jackie Banuelos -- with me is cadet Billy Nichols -- and we’re blogging. Today we woke up at 0900 hours and ate chow here at the Marine Corps Air Station. After breakfast we hit up the Spring Valley swap meet. The crowd was huge, probably as big as all the people living in Eureka, and there wasn’t a cadet that walked out without something.

Tucker Duke with his hiking partner heading up to the peak of Iron Mountain.

Emily Conley shows her amazing feats of strength

Every cadet made it to the peak, showing off thier WAR FACE!!!

Hello, from NJROTC! This is Billy Nichols, and today after the swap meet, the unit got prepared to go and hike up and down Iron Mountain. After reaching the top which is 3 miles, all the cadets gathered for a group photo and then began our descent down from the mountain. The climb was quiet a challenge, and I, a devil pup thought it was just as challenging as Ole Smokey. For you viewers out there who don’t know what devil pups are, it is leadership program held at Camp Pendleton just a few miles away, and Ole Smokey is the final, most difficult challenge which is a mountain we climb as a team. Today our unit worked as a team to conquer Iron Mountain.

Day 1 down look for our blog tomorrow

Gunny Smith