Our History

OUR UNIT HISTORY

Unit Milestones

Established August 2001

May 2004 C/LT Eric Martin-Powell was awarded an NROTC Scholarship (Auburn)

Unit Achievement 2004-2005

Distinguished Unit w/Academic Honors 2005-2006

Navy League Most Improved Unit in the Nation 2005-2006

Area 8 Most Improved Unit 2005-2006

May 2006 C/LT Marquis Cook was awarded an NROTC Scholarship (Auburn)

Distinguished Unit w/Academic Honors 2006-2007

Distinguished Unit w/Academic Honors 2007-2008

May 2008 C/LT Najeeb Carter and Sean Randolph were awarded an NROTC Scholarship (Savannah State)

Distinguished Unit w/Academic Honors 2008-2009

May 2009 C/LtCdr Shauvez Bennett (Tuskegee Univ) and C/PO1 Shanaevia Joseph(Jacksonville Univ) were awarded an NROTC Scholarship

May 2010 C/Lt Orrin Brown (Tuskegee Univ) was awarded an NROTC Scholarship

Distinguished Unit w/Academic Honors 2009-2010

March 2011 C/CPO Marcus Jackson(Tuskegee Univ) was awarded an NROTC Scholarship

Distinguished Unit w/Academic Honors 2010-2011

JUL 2011 Due to increased enrollment unit was reorganized into a Battalion

August 2011 Third Instructor (CPO Dudley) hired for the Central NJROTC program

Distinguished Unit w/Academic Honors 2011-2012

May 2012 C/PO1 Kaleel Pitre (Savannah State Univ) was awarded an NROTC Scholarship

Distinguished Unit w/Academic Honors 2012-2013

May 2013 C/LCDR James Jackson and C/CPO Isaiah Pitre (Savannah State Univ) awarded an NROTC

Scholarship

May 2014 C/CPO Jaquise Burns(Tuskegee Univ) awarded an NROTC Scholarship

Distinguished Unit w/Academic Honors 2013-2014

Unit Achievement Award 2014-2015

May 2015 C/ENS Rynel Marshall (Tuskegee Univ) awarded an NROTC Scholarship

Distinguished Unit With Academic Honors 2015-2016

May 2016 C/MCPO Quantavious Moore (Tuskegee Univ) was awarded the NROTC Scholarship

May 2016 Former cadet Kaleel Pitre graduated from Savannah State Univ and was commissioned as an Ensign in the Navy (He is the first former cadet to be commissioned from the NROTC Scholarship Program)

March 2017 C/CDR Lindo is selected as the state of Alabama ROTC Career Tech Student Org President

DEC 2017 Former cadet Isaiah Pitre graduated from Savannah State Univ and was commissioned as an Ensign in the Navy

December 2017 Chief Petty Officer Dudley retires from Central High NJROTC

April 2018 Lieutenant Jones retires from Central High NJROTC

May 2018 C/CDR Jada Lester nominated and accepts appointment to US Military Academy West Point

May 2018 C/CDR Davornne Lindo was offered anappointment to US Naval Academy and scholarship to Yale University; She chose to attend Yale.

July 2018 Senior Chief Habersham comes aboard as a Naval Science Instructor

August 2018-February 2019 Commander Jones, Senior Naval Science Instructor

July 2019 Major Fenell comes aboard as Senior Naval Science Instructor

May 2020 C/CDR Elijah Wood (Auburn Univ) was awarded the NROTC Scholarship

May 2020 C/LT Taylor Michalski nominated for appointment to the US Air Force Academy