Herndon HS Njrotc Boosters

Video of last Saturday's Honor Flight arrivals. Always a worthwhile way to spend some time.

Forgot to post last week... 😳😉

I may not work here anymore, but I still notice things like NCIC on the Calendar.
Tuesday-Friday, August 5-8, send your New Cadet out to the unit for Introduction Camp. They'll learn to form up and march (which is more complex than you'd think), and they'll start on their knowledge base. 🫡 Most importantly, they'll get to know their command, and start building those bonds that make the NJROTC ⚓Hornet Battalion a family.
-Mrs. Lewis (Also, we need a parent to do social media - how about you?) Contact President Chris Noyes - [email protected]

Congratulations to the Class of 2025! (I'm late here, they graduated Tuesday night.)

They fielded an all senior color guard that night too.

Two more days to place your orders for delivery and installation this year!
Please visit https://www.thatsmybrick.com/HHSNJROTC to place your order quickly and easily! All proceeds go to benefit the Herndon HS NJROTC unit.

Meeting Tonight on Google at 6pm. please drop in to see how you can help.
https://calendar.app.google/d7822VuKXyTPdbpJ6

A word from the Outgoing President
I’m XOs mom. I’ve volunteered with the Scouts, Band & PTA over the years, all in support of what the boy loves doing. I’m STILL volunteering in my old positions with his scout troop even though he’s outgrown it.
I can’t do that here. Once he graduates in June, I can’t officially be a booster anymore. Someone else has to step up—at lease four someone elses have to step up. We were short handed this year, and only one of our volunteers is able to stay on next year because his cadets aren't graduating out of the program.
I’m going to ask you, is your cadet on the Drill Team? Color Guard? Air Rifle? Are they on more than one of those teams? From what I’ve seen over the past four years, if they are on ANY of those teams, they are on a leadership track, and the more of those teams that they are on, the higher in leadership they are going to rise.
They need you to support them through this. They obviously love the program, and are dedicating themselves to learning all sorts of really neat stuff that most kids never get to learn. They WANT to do this, but again, they need your support. They need you to be involved in the extremely unique culture that is Hornet Battalion, so that you understand why they spend so much time there. You’ll also end up adopting other cadets / being adopted along the way by other cadets who also need you.
We are a tax deductible organization, which I’m sure you all realize encourages donations. Donations like the money for the Thanksgiving Turkey Drive, money straight into our coffers from the Herndon Moose Lodge, etc. We then turn around and fund food for field meets, help with field trips, and pretty much anything that Captain and Chief ask for that benefits the unit as a whole. The bigger cash donors will likely go away if we lose our tax deductible status, making it really, REALLY hard to raise money again. We did really well this year thanks to the larger donors.
You volunteering will be good for everyone. Please step up - grab a parent friend if you have one who has cadet. Come to the meetings. Don’t let the unit lose their tax deductible donation funnel.
-Amanda Lewis

Back by request, Herndon's Hornet Battalion Color Guard will again be presenting the colors at the Washington Nationals game vs the Baltimore Orioles today at 6:45 pm!

We are still in need of Fundraisers.

We are in desperate need of a VP Fundraising. Please think about it?

In person boosters meeting Wednesday 4/2 @4:15pm in the unit.
New blood needed.

The silent Auction for funding the class of 2025 All Night Grad Night is Live! There's some really neat stuff there.

Herndon Class of 2025 All Night Grad Silent Auction All preceeds from this auction goes to the Herndon Class of 2025 ANG party

We will be having a Boosters Meeting on Google Meet tonight.
We need to recruit for a new board for next year. New board goes in along with the new cadet command on May 23rd. Volunteer now so you can get a feel for what we do before we're gone

Email [email protected] if you have problems getting into the meeting and we'll invite you that way.

Link for the first hour (7-8pm) is:
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/rem-mean-gvg

Overflow hour (just in case) link is:
Video call link: https://meet.google.com/cnf-pegy-tyj