GCHS JROTC completes 3rd-annual Adventure Week
Gordon Central High School JROTC students recently completed their third annual Adventure Week. The week consisted of events such as whitewater rafting, survival/ bushcraft training, game processing and rappelling, to name a few.
Gordon Central’s JROTC Adventure Week provides students the opportunity to practice leadership skills in an unfamiliar environment and to take part in adventurous training that is not otherwise available as part of the school’s curriculum. Students learn skills such as fire building utilizing a bow drill or flint and steel, field expedient first aid and how to apply tour- niquets and pressure bandages, how to build traps and snares and develop teamwork and problem- solving techniques.
Adventure Week would not be possible without the tremendous assistance provided by the Calhoun Police Department. Chief Garry Moss and Major Larry Gilbert are extremely supportive of Gordon Central’s JROTC program. For the last three years, they have granted Officers Seth Densmore and Josh McKamey the time necessary to ensure Adventure Week is successful.
“Officers Densmore and McKamey have devoted much of their sparse off-duty time to assist in the planning, logistics, training and execution of this event and they are instrumen- tal to its success,” said LTC Mike Mansi, the Senior Army Instructor for the JROTC program.
LTC Mansi is also thankful for additional instructors from ESEE Knives/Randall’s Adventure Training School of Survival who helped with Adventure Week.
“We were fortunate to have instructors from ESEE Knives/Randall’s Adventure and Training School of Survival come spend a day with us, free of charge, to teach us several methods of fire-making, game processing, how to build shelters and first aid,” said Mansi. “Patrick Rollins was the Lead Instructor and Hugh Coffee was their medic, and both men did a great job in helping make Adventure Week a success.”