Instructor Bio

LTC (R) Daniel Dorado

Senior Army Instructor

Lieutenant Colonel (ret) Daniel K. Dorado assumed the SAI duties at Cañon City High School on 1 August 2022. LTC Dorado is from Mililani, O'ahu, Hawaii and served as the SAI at Kahuku High School on the North Shore of O'ahu from 2018-2022. While at Kahuku, he helped graduating seniors enrolled in JROTC to receive more than $30,000 for college, and has mentored cadets to pursue their post-secondary goals whether entering the work force, enlisting in the military, or earning ROTC scholarships or academy appointments to earn a bachelor’s degree and become military officers. LTC Dorado was a Military Police Officer and Middle East Foreign Area Officer (FAO) and entered the United States Army upon receiving his commission from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1997. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Arabic, Spanish and Systems Engineering from West Point and studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Irbid, Jordan in 2004. He also earned a Master of Science degree in Arabic Language, Literature, Linguistics, and Teaching Arabic as a Foreign Language from Georgetown University in 2005. His last assignments as a FAO took him to US embassies in Manama, Bahrain (2011-2014) and Cairo, Egypt (2014-2017) where he represented the Defense Intelligence Agency as the Chief of Attaché Operations and Army Attaché. LTC Dorado was selected for Senior Service College (Command and General Staff College) in November 2016 prior to retiring from the US Army on July 31, 2017. He received the Department of State’s Meritorious Honor Award from the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, an award normally reserved for Department of State employees, for his timely force protection advice to the ambassador. Prior to his current position, LTC Dorado worked as a Socio-Cultural Analyst supporting Special Operations Pacific Command (SOCPAC) initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region.

LTC (R) Daniel Dorado's Assignments:

Senior Army Instructor
Color Guard Coach
Drill Team Coach
Raiders Coach
CyberPatriot Coach

Duties of the Senior Army Instructor:

Manage and conduct the JROTC unit according to school rules, regulations, and policies.
The SAI will advise school authorities on policy and regulation changes.
Maintain good relations with school authorities, faculty, and the student body.
Conduct a public affairs effort in the local area middle and elementary schools, among school and community officials, civic groups, parent-teacher groups and other individuals or groups, designed to further the understanding of JROTC, the school and the Army
Enroll students in JROTC and support school officials while executing the curriculum and the integrated extra-curricular activities.
Prepare weekly training schedules.
Maintain contact with parents of all Cadets experiencing academic or behavioral problems.
Ensure JROTC unit areas are neat and orderly; current chain of command photos, Cadet creed, core abilities and mission statement are present; and all sensitive items are secured.
Ensure instructors share teaching responsibilities. No instructor is exempt from teaching a fair-share of the (Leadership Education Training) LET Curriculum. Instructors should teach by expertise and preference in subject areas, rather than strictly by LET levels. SAIs are responsible for teaching the JROTC curriculum.
Maintain a current copy of DA Form 3126 and/or DA Form 3126-1, a completed service learning checklist/rubric, a current copy of a bond/insurance certificate, and required JUMS reports.
Maintain accountability of all equipment, including items requiring formal accountability informal accountability (i.e., clothing) and durable items costing $5,000 or less (i.e., automation, computers, audiovisual), but still requiring property accountability.

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