| Western AFJROTC Competition Held in San Antonio
Ed Garland, AFA National Director, represented AFA leadership at the Western Region Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps drill competition held in San Antonio on March 27-28. Garland observed several hours of competition on Friday and remarked “It was really inspiring to see young men and women from all over the western part of the US. They came from as far away as Palmdale, California; Harvey, Louisiana; Omaha, Nebraska; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Fargo, North Dakota. Forty-eight hours before the Fargo drill team competitors left home, they were piling sandbags on levees and hoping their homes would not be flooded. But they still came because of their dedication. The group from Harvey, Louisiana, came 500 miles in a yellow school bus because they didn't have the money or support from the school district. There were other great stories.”
Garland said that as a young man, he spent four years on high school drill teams and four years on college drill teams. As good as he thought his teams performed, Garland felt that these competitors were infinitely better. He stated that he had never seen routines like those performed in San Antonio, even at the college level, male or female.
Garland was the keynote speaker at the awards ceremony and assisted in the presentation of forty trophies. John Jay High School from San Antonio placed first in the competition and Thomas Clark High School from San Antonio placed second.
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