Cadets listed from left to right.Front and center is Ryan Sullivan the Raider Commander
1st Row: Kiowa Temple, David Schaeffer (2nd in Command), Nina Jones, Harper Cheek, Tyler Eakins, Stephanie Jones, Trent Knox, Coby Stewart, Peyton Bowman-Ruggiero, Elijah Anderson, Devon Dunigan, Rebecca Marshall. 2nd Row: Nathan Czyz, Justin Boyd-Medina, Billy Bishop, Santiago Paz, Carolyn Stegall, Adam Gusto, Jose Sandoval, Avery Dunigan, Landon Panther, Marissa Coulter. 3rd Row: Skylar Smith, Roy Prescott, Gabriel Ramos, Esmerelda Ramos. Not Pictured: Christian Smith, Gavin Smith, Hunter Suggs, Daniel Coenen, Jazmine Leyte, Emma Davis, Morning Dove Rose, Dylan Kevern.
The Raiders Competition Team Earns 4 Trophies , Hold Huge Work Day
December 2021
Evensville, TN --With the RCHS JROTC Raider team wrapping up their 2021 competition season the focus has shifted to work on the Raider Range and hopefully completion of the new Raider Range on RCHS property by the beginning of Fall of 2022 so that the cadets can have a place to practice for future competitions as well as to hopefully allow the JROTC Raiders to host competitions at RCHS. With that in mind a Raider Range Work Day was held on Saturday November 13, 2021 and cadets and their family members focused on cleaning up, taking down trees, and grinding stumps in order to clean up the One Line Rope Bridge site. A huge thank you to all of the family members and cadets that came to help. There was a lot of work accomplished in a couple of hours thanks to family members bringing their own equipment and knowledge to the project.
Raiders Bring Home 4 Trophies:
The RCHS JROTC cadets with 4 trophies pose with earned in 2021. During the year, the Raiders competed in several events.
Clarkrange High School: All-male team earned 3rd place in the One Line Rope Bridge out of 20 schools on August 28th 2021.
Fairview High School: Co-Ed team earned 5th place overall out of 20 schools on September 11th 2021. (During this competition all of the cadets from every school wore tags which had fallen soldiers' information on the tags in remembrance of 09/11/2001 and all other fallen soldiers.)
Soddy Daisy High School: Out of 20 schools, the all-male team earned 3rd place in the Buddy Run.
The all-female team earned 3rd place in the Buddy Run.
The Raider Range received a delivery of used telephone poles and spools picked up from EPB in Chattanooga on November 24, 2021 so a special thank you goes out to LTC Johnston and SFC Harris for coming to the school on their holiday to open up the Raider Range for the delivery. To Brandy Bowman-Ruggiero for contacting Austin Massingill who is a director at Industrial Boiler & Mechanical Company Incorporated. Austin was able to send a crew to EPB on November 23, 2021 so Kerry Meitzler and James Harris consulted with Christy Sullivan at EPB to select the used telephone poles and spools that would need to be picked up and delivered to the RCHS Raider Range.
On November 24, 2021 another crew George Beaty and Dylan Beaty from Industrial Boiler & Mechanical Company Incorporated sorted through, loaded, and delivered the items to the Raider Range where LTC Johnston, SFC Harris, and Christy Sullivan loaded, and delivered the items to the Raider Range where LTC Johnston, SFC Harris, and Christy Sullivan meet the crew along with the following cadets Ryan Sullivan (Raider Commander), Peyton Bowman-Ruggiero, Kiowa Temple, Landon Panther, Nathan Czyz, Justin Boyd-Medina, Harper Cheek, Rebecca Marshall, and Trent Knox to unload the items. These items will soon be installed on the Raider Range in order to complete some of the obstacles that are mapped out for the completion of the Raider Range. The Raider team is still searching for more telephone poles in order to install two bridges over a creek in the Raider Range as well as other obstacles that require the items.
RCHS JROTC Instructors:
LTC Johnston and SFC Harris
Family Members & Friends:
Carl Barrington (Veterans Stump Grinding 423-285-4422), Steven Eakins, Melissa Coulter, Michael Coulter, Steven Panther, Bill Sheets, Wesley Skiles, Gary Blankenship, Maria Dunigan, Jasmine Fritz, William (Billy) Smith, Alvin Harrison, Tim Smith, Christy Sullivan
Cadets: Ryan Sullivan (Raider Commander), David Schaeffer, Nina Jones, Stephanie Jones, Nathan Czyz, Dylan Kevern, Tyler Eakins, Marissa Coulter,
Landon Panther, Peyton Bowman-Ruggiero, Avery Dunigan, Devon Dunigan, Justin Boyd-Medina, Gavin Smith, Christian Smith, Rebecca Marshall, Carolyn Stegall, Colby Stewart, Trent Knox, Hunter Suggs.
Special Thank You To - Teresa Harris for cooking and bringing the food to feed the crew. Alvin Harrison and William (Billy) Smith for the delivery of two loads of sand. Plus a donation for fuel costs from Mr. & Mrs. Bowman-Ruggiero.
Another Raider Range Work Day is scheduled for January 22, 2022 with a "Rain Day" of January 29, 2022..
The Raiders, their family members, and the JROTC Booster Club want to give a super special thank you to LTC Johnston and SFC Harris for their teaching skills, knowledge, and for giving up their Saturdays (and some holidays) in order to help ALL of the RCHS JROTC cadets become the best that they can be.
By Christy Sullivan (RCHS JROTC Booster Club Secretary)
