Joint military Cadets of America
(Army Cadets of America)
Alpha Co 1st Ba 3rd cadet training Brigade
 Portland, Maine
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ALPHA CO 1st BATTALION 3rd CADET TRAINING  BRIGADE
Joint Military Cadets of America (Army Cadets)
"The Maine Marauders"
Greater Portland, Maine

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We invite you...
Want to experience excitement, friendship, belonging, and being a leader?  Are you interested in the military and all it has to offer? Do you seek physical fitness, discipline, and adventure?  Do you wish to give back to your city, your State, and your country? Then the Joint Military Cadets of America is for you.  The program is for youth ages 11-17 and as pictures on the website show, we are motivated, professional and respected.  Hooah!

    ALPHA CO 1st BATTALION 3rd CADET TRAINING BRIGADE of the Joint Military Cadets of America covers the northeastern region of the United States. The Maine unit, The Maine Marauders, is the first in ALPHA CO and the only unit in the north.  It is located in Portland, one of America's oldest ports, founded in 1632. In May, the Windham Platoon was established. It is located in the Lakes Region town of Windham, a suburb of Portland. The towns of Gray and New Gloucester have recently become involved with the program with several new cadets for the area.
     The city of Portland, situated on the south coast of Maine, has 66,000 people and serves a metropolitan area of 550,000.  The city is nationally recognized for its quality of life, diversity, the four season climate, restaurants and scenic beauty. Lakes, mountains, and the shoreline are close by as is Boston and the Canadian cities of Montreal and Quebec.

      The Joint Military Cadets of America embrace the state's tradition of resiliency, courage, and strength. The unit looks forward towards growing to serve the needs of our youth, our community, and our nation. Your skills and talents are needed; consider joining as either a cadet or adult cadre. No previous military experience is required. We will provide the support and training; you supply the motivation and the desire to be a member of the best - The Joint Military Cadets of America.

What is the Joint Military Cadets of America all about?

MISSION 
A. The mission of the Joint Military Cadets of America is to positively impact America’s future by providing quality youth development and military career exploration programs for boys and girls that nurtures and develops its members into responsible citizens who enjoy and promote a healthy and crime-free lifestyle. 

B. Be a relevant force, missioned across the spectrum of contingencies, structured and resourced to accomplish its mission, capable and accessible when called, with trained Military cadets committed to preserving the timeless traditions and values of service to our nation and communities. 


OBJECTIVES
  • Promote the mental, moral, and physical development of its members.
  • Instill in its members the ideals of honesty, fairness, courage, respect, loyalty, dependability, attention to duty, love of God, and fidelity to our Country and its institutions.
  • Stimulate an interest and respect for the United States Military, and its  history and traditions.
  • Promote physical fitness through the conduct of physical activities, including participation in military physical training, field training, and close order drills.


PROGRAM SUMMARY

    The Joint Military Cadets of America (JMCA) is the premier nationwide cadet organization.  The aim of the Joint Military Cadets of America is to inspire young people to achieve success in life with a spirit of service to their country and community and to develop in them the qualities of a good citizen. In order to achieve these goals, the JMCA is designed as a high-adventure military career exploration program for youth age 11-17 to determine whether or not a career as a service member is right for them. There is absolutely no service commitment involved, although cadets do experience firsthand many aspects of a military lifestyle.

    Generally speaking, there are two types of training Military Cadets engage in. The first is monthly drills, also referred to as Unit Training Assemblies or UTA's, held once a month.  The other is Annual Training, or AT, held over the summer at a real military installation. During AT cadets get the opportunity to train with other Military Cadets from around the country; it is the most valuable, realistic, and demanding training they will receive as a cadet. At AT cadets will also develop lifelong friendships with their fellow cadets, as there is no way for cadets to succeed without using teamwork. There are multiple levels of training that cadets may sign up for at Annual Training.

    Their first summer cadets will attend Basic Cadet Training (BCT) and in subsequent summers they will have different courses they can choose to attend depending on their interests.At both AT and UTA's, cadets will receive many different types of realistic military training. The topics include, but are certainly not limited to:


  • Basic Soldiering Skills
  • First aid and CPR
  • Land, Air, and Marine Navigation
  • Drill and Ceremonies
  • Marksmanship
  • Combatives
  • Tactical field training
  • Physical training

    In addition to those topics, some of the most important experience cadets receive is as leaders. The Joint Military Cadets of America is lead by the cadets meaning that, as cadets progress through training and prove their ability, they may be given promotions and given responsibility for other cadets. In other cadet programs, rank and position is mostly symbolic or ceremonial; that is not the case in the Joint Military Cadets of America. During their time in the program, cadets will progress from followers to leaders and receive extremely challenging and rewarding leadership experience. 


    Make no mistake, this program is not for the faint-of-heart or uncommitted. If you're up for the challenge, however, you'll be amazed how much you can accomplish and how much fun you can have doing it. 


    So...do you live in the southern Maine or seacoast region of New Hampshire and are ready to challenge yourself and become a member of the Joint Army Cadets of America?  Then click on the contact tab located at the top of the page and we will get back to you.  One click will get your started on a journey that will make all the difference in your life...today, tomorrow, and in the future.  Go for it!  Hooah!

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Maine winter. This island is the background was the site of the first English settlement in 1632.
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Color Guard Practice with Maine Army National Guard.
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July 2015 Tall Ships Festival
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Cadet Warren tops the net.
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Getting cadets ready to for road march.
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Cadets at rest after running obstacle course.
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Front leaning rest position, MOVE! We work out hard.
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Cpl. Haynes masters the bars.
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Our city: Winter scene in the Portland's Old Port.
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Cadet Foley packing ruck after PT.
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Enjoying good food after a long workout on a cool November night.
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Cadet Muntadher Almashkoor with the State of Maine flag
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Our city: The Custom House. The city continues to be one of the nation's busiest ports. Brick predominates as the city has been burned three times; by the French, the English and careless Americans playing with firecrackers.
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Our city: Portland is known for its famous poet Henry Wardsworth Longfellow.
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Our city: The Tate House built in 1775 is one of the oldest homes in America. George Tate shipped pine masts back to England for the British Navy.
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Our city: Winter white.
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Our city: Maine's slogan is "Vacationland".
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Cadet Petropoulos assisting with American Red Cross Smoke Detector installation in Lewiston.
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Our City: Lobsterman statute
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Cadets at the ready for the fundraiser at Applebee's.
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Our City: Ready to run Back Cove, cadets?
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Cadet Spencer prepares ambush.
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Our City: Winter harbor shot.
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Color Guard at Wreaths Across America Presentation. Check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYRLTQM13YY to hear a beautiful song about Wreaths Across America.
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Our City: December snow.
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Our city: Dawn at Spring Light in Portland Harbor
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Cpl. Haynes with Rifle Drills
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Senator Collins of Maine greets Cadet Tareq Albdoor at the Veterans' Day Parade in Portland.
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Our city: City Hall Plaza
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Our city: We're never far from the sea; Casco Bay, the Gulf of Maine, and the Atlantic Ocean.
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Cadet Shyaka with battie buddy Cadet Foley.
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Our city: Sunrise at Portland Head Light, commissioned by President Washington.
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Our city: The rocky coast of Maine.
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Cadets at attention at the Vietnam Memorial Wall Exhibit at Cabela's.
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Our city: The Portland waterfront.
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SGT Noyes instructing clock coordinates.
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Cadet Gladu, Cadet Petropoulos, and Cadet Thompson with rifle instruction.
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Cadets enjoying a hockey game at the Cumberland County Civic Center with Salty Pete, the Portland Pirates' mascot
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Our City: Old Port district. In colonial times, Wharf St was on the waterfront before landfill created other streets.
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Our City: How Maine does winter...Portland Pirates Hockey!
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Our City: Dawn on the Atlantic.
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FIGHT! Cadets learn how to resolve issues and use combatives safely.
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PT session during a weekend drill.
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Cadets on winter hike on East End Trail, 3 January 2015.
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Over the hurdle on a cold 26 F/-3 celcius day.
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Our City: Winter fun, HOOAH!
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Our city: Winter lights.
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Cadets Al-Khaleeli, Petropoulos, Thompson, and Nguyen practicing buddy carries.
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SGT Noyes, Spc. Thompson, Cpl. Haynes, and Spc. Smith at Wreaths Across America presentation.
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Our city: Night view of the map above. How are your map skills? Locate Portland and squint hard; you might see cadets conducing PT during these dark fall and winter evenings.
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Our city: Downtown December dusk.
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Cadets Thompson, Haynes, and Smith at City Hall Plaza on Veterans'Day.
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Our City: Aerial view.
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Our City: 383 years old and still going strong.
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Our City: View from American Legion window on a February afternoon.
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Our City: Maine winter scene. Cadets will be hiking this path on the Mountain Division Trail in a few months.
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In uniform or out, cadets enjoy each others company. Not a cadet? When did you last have fun just hanging out in a safe, healthy environment? Parents/guardians...isn't this what you want for your child?
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Our City: Portland Pirates hockey. Cadets attended a game as part of a cadet outing.
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Our City: Stroudwater River dam in winter.
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Cadets on patrol dislodge mock IED after following procedures.
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Our City: Portland's old armory.
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Maine balsam trees used for the wreaths to honor the Fallen at Arlington.
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Practice makes perfect...drilling after a record November snowfall.
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No...Maine is not part of Canada but we are close, sharing a common history and languages.
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Portland and southern Maine region; home to the Maine Marauders.
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The Greater Portland and Southern Maine Army Cadets region.
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Our town: Windham
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Cadet outing to Mt Apatite.
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Windham Homecoming Parade.
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Our town - New Gloucester
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Air soft at Warrior Village.
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Getting ready for Friday night color guard.
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Breaching practice.
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Cadets at 9/11 Memorial.
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Circle push-up...team work in action.
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Promoting cadets at Windham High School.
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Cadets meet at Applebee's for a fundraiser.
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Cadets Sayah and Hernandez assist a veteran. The bus lift broke down so cadets helped wheel veterans so they could watch the 5K VET Run in Scarborough.
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Cadet Jordan being sworn in as a US Army soldier...Hooah!
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Cadets Mannette and Anderson at PT test.
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Cadets Anderson and Swanson perform traffic detail at the Native American Pow Wow in Biddeford, Maine (Note flags in back).
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Cadet Sayah relaxing at Portland Headlight.
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Cadets and members of the Portland and Saco Army Recruiting Stations participate in the Push-Ups for Charity event at Army Barracks.
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Our city: Canadian-American ferry service from Nova Scotia arriving in port.
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Showing the colors with the Freeport Flag Ladies.
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Our city: Casco Bay
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Cadets at ceremony honoring WWII veterans.
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Cadets with Freeport Flag Ladies, Freeport, Maine
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The Lakes Region, home of the Windham Platoon.
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Our Mascot.
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Cadets take their roles seriously.
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Our City: One of the "foodie" centers of North America with the oldest public market in the US.
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Community Service - assisting Cadet Butterworth.
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Cadet Anderson's steady aim.
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Our City: Old Port
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Cadets at a recent hike in Limington with the Appalachian Mts in the background.
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Our City: The mountains are close as is the sea.
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Night Patrol
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Setting up for camping, drill, and fun.
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Our city: Longfellow looks over the city.
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Marching in Yarmouth Clam Festival.
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Cadet Sayah.
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Covering.
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Yarmouth Clam Festival Parade - the cadets awed the crowds.
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Parking detail, Greek Festival.
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Cadets assist in carrying American flag in Hiram's Fourth of July celebration.
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PT and teamwork - HOOAH!
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Cadets participating in The Summit Project hike.
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Take down practice after a hike.
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Windham cadets at the recent camping event in Limington.
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Windham cadets enjoying rifle pt.
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Cadet Petropoulos promoting a healthy lifestyle while assisting in a community service project in Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
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Cadet Anderson scans trail at recent training.
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Windham Cadets practicing.
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Windham cadets at drill/ceremony training.
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LT, SGT Mcdonald and Army Cadets marching in Portland's Memorial Day Parade 25 May, 2015.
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Cadet Petropoulos at Forest City Cemetery flag detail.
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Getting ready to hike the Mountain Division Trail.
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Pushing at Otter Pond.
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Working out at Optimal Self Fitness lot.
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Cadets receiving training in 3-5 Rush at Army Reserve Center.
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SGT Noyes, LT, and cadets at Greek Independence Day Parade in Boston.
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One day in the program and Cadets Menario and Manyiel are already looking good.
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Cadet Howard working the abs.
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Cadets Petropoulos, Gladu, and LT MacDowell pay tribute to Summit Project participants and the memory of the Fallen. Photo compliments of compliments of: Francis Flisiuk Managing Editor at The Free Press wolfsbane62@yahoo.com
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Viewing the memory stones. Photos compliments of Francis Flisiuk Managing Editor at The Free Press wolfsbane62@yahoo.com
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Rifle Practice
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March Awards Night
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What did you do last weekend? This is what we were did!
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Our City: Portland Harbor the day of the Summit Project.
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LT, SGT and cadets supported The Summit Project with organizer Greg Johnson. For more information, please see: www.TheSummitProject.org Facebook.com/TheSummitProject
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Weapons training at the Army Reserve Center.
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Cadets at the gym.
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Chin-ups...and remembering our POW-MIAs.
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Drill Sergeants instructing cadets at Saco Army Reserve.
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Our City: Portland Harbor. The ocean on fire...Arctic Sea Smoke. For our fellow units down South...this is what happens when frigid air goes over warmer ocean water.
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Cadets preparing for PT at Saco Army Reserve.
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Our City.
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Training time!
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Cadets Al-Khaleeli, Petropoulos, and Carpenter after drill.
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Our City: We are part of the south...south Maine, that is. Some people commute to Boston and New York City is closer than parts of northern Maine.
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Cadets Spencer, Al-Khaleeli, and Espinal with SGT at PT.
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Cadet Thompson takes an exam.
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Our City: Winter view.
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A February PT drill and exam night.
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Our City: Ram Island Lighthouse in Casco Bay.
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How New England does winter...Cadet Petropoulos on snowbank. The Blizzard left 2 feet on the ground but we still helped the Red Cross canvass neighborhoods.
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Oh Say Can You See... Grand State of Maine... O Canada... Oh..we beat CT 4-2!!!
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Cadet Tun with SGT Noyes
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Our City: Crescent Beach
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Our City: Eastern Promenade in winter.
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Cadets assisting the Lewiston Fire Department and the American Red Cross with smoke detector installation and fire safety tips.
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The Wreaths at Arlington.
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Specialist Thompson, Cadet Tun, Cadet Foley, Cadet Albdoor, Cadet Spencer, Cadet Al-Khaleeli, Cadet Petropoulos, Cadet Nguyen, and SGT Noyes at Fire Safety Training. Cadets will be involved in community service installing smoke detectors In Lewiston and Portland over the next few months.
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Our city: December photo of Our Lady of the Victories, honoring the city's soldiers and sailors, in Monument Square.
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We thank our veterans and their many sacrifices as we try to live the Army Values as cadets in the Joint Military Cadets of America program.
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Our city: The landscape fires up in October when the foliage changes color.
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Our city: The sparkling waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Our city: Skyline view from Back Cove running path which cadets use for PT.
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The sign says it all...and we welcome YOU to become a member of our team - the Joint Military Cadets of America. It is certainly a way of life, one of which you will be proud. Make your life the way it should be; join us today. Go to the contact section under Cadre and Cadets.
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