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AFROTC works to ensure cadets' future, success
Lynda Roberts
Issue date: 10/27/06 Section: News
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The Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University AFROTC detachment trains 282 cadets and is the fifth largest detachment on any college campus in the United States. Here are four ERAU students exploring their dreams and goals for a bright future. Put on your sunglasses.
Thea Danella is a senior from nearby Tucson. During Danella's junior year she was the Cadet Wing Commander for the AFROTC detachment. Danella was responsible for the entire cadet wing and acted as the liaison between the cadets and the active duty enlisted and officer personnel in command of the 028 Detachment. An additional assignment in the AFROTC mission that encompassed a large portion her duties as the wing commander included overseeing Field Training preparation and providing guidance for sophomores to succeed at Field Training.
Danella comes by her leadership abilities naturally through her years as a "military brat." Her father was in the Air Force for 22 years and inspired her choice to enter a career in the Air Force. Danella has attended 11 different schools and says, "I am very grateful to have been able to experience so many different regions of the Untied States." She continues, "My father encouraged me to challenge myself and I am very excited about being an officer and setting an example for the American people."
Upon obtaining her commission as a second lieutenant into the Air Force, Danella will be assigned either a developmental or civil engineering position. Both positions have exciting possibilities; one of which could be overseeing a program that builds and tracks satellites that sense nuclear radiation in the atmosphere from missiles launched by hostile countries.
Danella says of the AFROTC detachment: "We are definitely the best in the nation for one reason: we are one of the largest and we have instilled a more active leadership lab. Our biggest assets are the leadership reaction courses, group leadership projects and the skill stations. These three programs challenge the AFROTC cadets to think critically and be a team player and a capable leader."
Thea Danella is a senior from nearby Tucson. During Danella's junior year she was the Cadet Wing Commander for the AFROTC detachment. Danella was responsible for the entire cadet wing and acted as the liaison between the cadets and the active duty enlisted and officer personnel in command of the 028 Detachment. An additional assignment in the AFROTC mission that encompassed a large portion her duties as the wing commander included overseeing Field Training preparation and providing guidance for sophomores to succeed at Field Training.
Danella comes by her leadership abilities naturally through her years as a "military brat." Her father was in the Air Force for 22 years and inspired her choice to enter a career in the Air Force. Danella has attended 11 different schools and says, "I am very grateful to have been able to experience so many different regions of the Untied States." She continues, "My father encouraged me to challenge myself and I am very excited about being an officer and setting an example for the American people."
Upon obtaining her commission as a second lieutenant into the Air Force, Danella will be assigned either a developmental or civil engineering position. Both positions have exciting possibilities; one of which could be overseeing a program that builds and tracks satellites that sense nuclear radiation in the atmosphere from missiles launched by hostile countries.
Danella says of the AFROTC detachment: "We are definitely the best in the nation for one reason: we are one of the largest and we have instilled a more active leadership lab. Our biggest assets are the leadership reaction courses, group leadership projects and the skill stations. These three programs challenge the AFROTC cadets to think critically and be a team player and a capable leader."
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