answers questions about Basic Combat Training from students and parents from Lexington, S.C.'s Meadow Glen Middle School Tuesday at the Post Museum. Students from the school, as well a... VIEW ORIGINAL
Infantry Regiment fields questions from Meadow Glen Middle School students
about life in the Army. He fielded many questions including what the food
was like and advised the students shoul... VIEW ORIGINAL
13th Infantry Regiment, explains to Junior ROTC cadets from Myers Park High
School in Charlotte about how the Army trains and continues to use bayonets.
The cadets and other... VIEW ORIGINAL
looks down the barrel of a M1 Garand rifle during a tour of the post museum
Tuesday. All week long students from across the Carolinas were on post to
learn about Basic Comba... VIEW ORIGINAL
Students from across the Carolinas visited Fort Jackson this week to learn more about what it takes to be a Soldier as part of the post's ongoing efforts to build relationships with the surrounding communities.
Students from Meadow Glen Middle School in Lexington, South Carolina, and cadets from Myers Park High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps in Charlotte, toured the installation Tuesday visiting the post museum, watching rappel training at Victory Tower, and Soldiers navigating the Confidence Course.
The students asked, "What (military occupational specialty) you are, what MREs taste like, and how is Basic Combat Training," said Pvt. Brent Middleton, a 24-year-old Dallas native who is a week shy of graduating with Alpha Company, 3rd Battalion, 13th Infantry Regiment.
"It was almost like déjà vu," Middleton said after being swarmed by students asking him a ton of questions while touring the museum. He was in the same situation almost a year ago as he looked for information about the Army.
Middleton and other Soldiers in Training were on hand to answer any questions the school children asked.
The students were excited to learn all about the Army and what it took to be Soldiers.
"It is pretty cool to see how they train and how they look," Myers Park cadet Kenny Sellers said of the tour.
Sgt. Kennedy Ochoa, a 3-13th drill sergeant, sat down the middle school students and asked them about what they know about Army life.
Ochoa was asked about the ASVAB test and how it factors in Soldier's choices of MOS'. It gives the recruiters and career counselors the basis for what jobs the recruit would be best suited for, he said.
However, Ochoa stressed the everyday need for honesty -- one of the Army's core values.
"You have to be honest when you are trying to enlist," he stressed. If you don't get the job you wanted "you can at least say you were honest."
At the museum the students were able to see and touch some equipment the Army has used. Cadet Andre Hernandez posed proudly with an M16, while Sellers hoisted a M1 Garand rifle and practiced his drill and ceremony.
Staff Sgt. Douglas Wise, a drill sergeant with Delta Company, 3-13th, told a group of JROTC cadets that some enlist because they want structure, want to serve their country, and want to give something back.
"Can you get out if you don't like it?" a cadet from the crowd asked him.
"If you don't like it you can get out" after your enlistment is up, the nine-year veteran replied. "No harm. No foul."
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