Photo By Senior Airman Cody Martin | Tech. Sgt. Timothy Booth, 188th Medical Group bioenvironmental engineer, shows a cadet of the Northside High School junior reserve officer training corps program how to use the Hazmat ID 360 command system Jan. 25, 2016, during their visit of the 188th Wing at Ebbing Air National Guard Base, Fort Smith Ark. The cadets of the Northside junior reserve officer training corps (JROTC) program came to the 188th to learn about careers in the Air National Guard. Bioenviornmental engineers use the HAZMAT ID command system to identify materials by reflections of light. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Cody Martin/Released) see less
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EBBING AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ark. – Students from Northside and Southside high school’s junior reserve officer training corps program visited the 188th Wing here Jan. 25 and 27 to learn about the unique careers and opportunities provided by the Air National Guard.
Over the two day visit, JROTC cadets were exposed to myriad career fields unique to the mission of the 188th Wing to showcase opportunities in the local area as well as ANG and Air Force wide.
“What we do in JROTC is teach life skills and life after high school,” said Lt. Col. (ret.) Jason Meharg, senior Army instructor for the Northside High School JROTC program. “What better way than to come to places like the 188th and see job opportunities and careers that may be out there that our students may perhaps be interested in?”
The cadets were provided presentations by members of the wing in their respective fields.
The 188th held briefings over careers in intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; remotely-piloted aircraft; security forces; force support; communications; civil engineering; medical; public affairs; contracting; finance and the chaplain corps.
“Events like this allow us to not only spread the good word about who we are, but to give people a chance to see what we really do,” said 2nd Lt. Samuel Grounds, 188th Wing assistant executive officer. “Thanks to all the engaging presenters who talked to the cadets, we were able to show these kids that we really have a job for any type of interest they may have.”
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