Final Extra Curricular blog

Drill Team
The drill team is relatively new to ISU ROTC. The drill team focuses on learning and perfecting the precision movements of Drill and Ceremony. Drill instills discipline through precision and response to orders. After much work and dedication, the drill team will move as one unit. To be a member of the drill team takes a lot of hard work, discipline, and dedication. If interested contact your mentor or MSG Pittman.

Community Service
When you become a member of the Army community you possess something the civilian world cannot comprehend; the idea of self-sacrifice. Becoming a member of the world’s most powerful army, means that you have a greater responsibility to society, a responsibility to help others in need. This is why the Redbird Battalion provides service to the community. The Redbird Battalion participates in a variety of community service events throughout the year. One bi-annual program the Battalion participates in is called “Pass It On”. During this program ROTC cadets collect items, such as clothing, various unused supplies, and non-perishable foods, from all residence halls on campus. The collected materials are then donated to local shelters on behalf of ISU students and ISU ROTC. ROTC also has taken on tutoring grade school students at Jefferson Elementary in El Paso on Friday afternoons. Other community service events the battalion has participated in during previous years include working at local shelters, community/campus clean-up projects, and other projects with community based groups. If you have any questions about how to get involved or what events are happening during the semester, talk with your mentor. Remember, giving back to the community you live in is just as important as protecting it.

As a whole, these activities will teach you useful skills and develop social skills that you will need as an officer.