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What is the Kenosha Military Academy?

The Kenosha Military Academy is an Army JROTC Program located at Indian Trail High School & Academy in Kenosha Wisconsin.

The KMA offers students an opportunity to participate in a four-year JROTC program designed to enhance the core curriculum. The Academy provides a structured environment where students can achieve academic excellence while also becoming better citizens.

The academy stressed three core elements of our motto, which is the acronym SAL - meaning Scholastics, Athleticism, and Leadership.

While in the Kenosha Military Academy, Cadets take four years of Leadership Education and Training (LET) classes, the curriculum of which is designed and sponsored by the United States Army. LET Classes offer students a comprehensive education focused on character-building, citizenship, personal discipline, physical fitness, teamwork, and above all, leadership skills. Beyond the LET classes however, the academy stresses that leadership of oneself means achieving the very best overall cumulative Grade Point Average(GPA) possible at Indian Trail to allow the cadet many different options at graduation.

The Western Ideal is summarized as "a healthy mind in a healthy body." The KMA encourages overall health, asking students to maintain their height-weight along military lines and encouraging students to achieve greater physical fitness levels by offering weekly physical training outside of normal gym glasses, as well as additional extracurricular opportunities to excel at athleticism.

Leadership is a skill that will stand out in every walk of life, military, or otherwise. The KMA requires students to seek self-improvement every day and in every way; first by learning self-leadership and then going on to improve as leaders by rising through the academies ranks - taking on more and more responsibility until leading is second nature to them.

Due to the intensive training they receive in the KMA, students are given an edge over others interested in pursuing careers in the military or going onto college ROTC programs. To start with, the KMA is a recognized feeder school for Marquette University´s ROTC program. Students in this program are also given advanced consideration for ROTC scholarships in all branches of service.

In addition to participation in LET classes and Physical Training, students in the KMA are also given the opportunity to participate 2-3 times per week in their choice of the following extracurricular activities/teams.

• Color Guard

• Raiders Team

• Armed Drill Team

• Unarmed Drill Team

• Sabre Team

• Academic Team

Finally, students in the KMA are distinguished from other students at Indian Trail through their Cadet Army Service Uniform provided at no cost for for each student in the academy. Studnets are required to wear these uniforms as apart of their LET classes and can earn rank and ribbons which are displayed on their uniforms as they move successfully through the program and earn leadership positions.

Bottoms line is that, the Kenosha Military Academy is the perfect option for those students who wish to stand out from their peers as a disciplined cadre of leaders either in a military lifestyle, any relation professions, or in their future civilian careers.