By Naval Aircrewman Operator 1st Class Francisco Lovato, Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit Jacksonville Public Affairs
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Fifteen Marines from the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit (CNATTU) Jacksonville completed a Lance Corporal Leadership and Ethics Seminar onboard Naval Air Station Jacksonville April 27.
The fourteen-hour course, offered over four weeks, is designed to prepare junior Marines attending CNATTU Jacksonville military occupational series aircraft maintenance courses to be well-rounded leaders.
Marines typically go through the Lance Corporal Leadership and Ethics Seminar at a command level after two or three years but through an initiative started by Sgt. Deante Rodolph, an aviation support equipment instructor, the voluntary training is now being offered at CNATTU Jacksonville.
“We’re not only here to train the best aircraft maintainers heading to the fleet and the field,” said Rodolph. “We’re also here to train Marines on being the best intellectual, physical and morally-fit future leaders in the Marine Corps non-commissioned officer ranks.”
Rodolph is a trained Lance Corporal Leadership and Ethics Seminar instructor who saw a need for Marine Corps students attending classes after their initial MOS training to be offered leadership training early in their training pipeline.
“To provide a course that is able to help guide these Marines toward their individual goals as well as reignite the Navy and Marine Corps standards can only help them as they move through their careers,” said Rodolph. “Helping newer Marines understand some of the things they’ll face as future leaders is important to them and to the Marine Corps.”
Rodolph serves as the seminar’s lead instructor and relies on the assistance of three other Marine sergeants to facilitate the training. The majority of the seminar is conducted through small group instruction, with book and article discussion and scenario-based learning augmented by brainstorming, peer teaching and role-playing activities. Topics of instruction for the seminar include leadership; ethics; and customs; courtesies; and traditions.
“These Marines are the service members who will one day fill our shoes,” said Gunnery Sgt. Theodore Turner, CNATTU Support Equipment “C” school staff non-commissioned officer (NCO)-in-charge. “Passing on what we have learned during our time as new accessions to staff NCO’s is something which is required of service members regardless of branch of service. Making sure that we’re training not only qualified aircraft maintainers but also capable leaders in our Navy and Marine Corps team is a responsibility that Sgt. Rodolph has embraced.”
The next CNATTU Jacksonville Lance Corporal Leadership and Ethics Seminar is scheduled to begin June 1.
CNATTU Jacksonville provides rate-specific aviation technical training, specializing in aviation support equipment "C" school training.
CNATTU Jacksonville is a training unit for CNATT, a technical training agent for the Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE), an organization designed to advance and sustain Naval Aviation warfighting capabilities, under the Naval Education and Training Command domain.
| Date Taken: | 04.27.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 05.24.2018 14:20 |
| Story ID: | 278338 |
| Location: | PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, US |
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