May 22 to 23 (Thursday & Friday) Memorial Day Presentations

Cadets, 

Today is your last day to prepare your Witness presentations and the posterboards. You need to rehearse in class and present to each other. Make sure you know what class periods in Friday you will be presenting your fallen American. 

On Friday do your best to present with the utmost respect possible, because YOU are bearing witness to those who fought in the Second Battle of Fallujah. 

Make the families of the fallen proud of your presentations on Friday. Good Luck.

May 21 (Wed): Second Battle of Fallujah

3/5 in Falujah

You are two days away from the JROTC Cadet presentations in the Auditorium for Friday the 23 of May from Period 2 to Period 7. Everyone knows what is expected but let's review:

Period 2,4,6, and 7 Posterboard assignments. Poster boards need to be completed by Thursday. These products should be stand alone projects for visitors to read and learn. Chief Pascoe and Mr. Osinoyle will determine where the 4 poster boards will be placed in the Auditorium. Senior's posterboards need to be finished in class on Thursday

Individual Witness Assignments: You need to have two 8 X 12 papers (one is a head shot photo [preferably color] or an individual picture and the other are facts about this Marine or Soldier who died in Op Phantom Fury.) Your job is to make that person KIA to come alive through your presentation. If for some reason you are challenged to find information about the Marine assigned, then look up casualty names for Operation Phantom Fury in Fallujah and finish the assignment. 

Thursday needs to be a rehearsal of your presentations in class. 

Friday during period 1 cadets need to ensure the poster boards and two 8X12 papers need to be brought to JROTC classroom period one. On Friday Period 1 is Set Up and Period 8 is Clean Up. 

• Class Leaders make recommendations to Chief and Mr. Osinoyle about what cadets should cover what periods in the auditorium on Friday.
• Cadet Co and XO: 
• Set up a cadet accountability system for Friday and review with Chief Pascoe. 
• Any cadets showing a trend for lacking maturity or who did not satisfactorily complete the assignment will not participate (Chief and Mr. O have final say). 
• Ensure Chief Pascoe sends Building Exempt email to Attendance. Have him put this on School Teacher Bulletin. 

Remember, these Americans who died during this battle rate your professional time, attention, and respect.

May 20 (Tues): Second Battle of Fallujah

Iraqi Insurgency against US & Coalition Forces in Fallujah

The Second Battle of Fallujah took place from 7 November 2004 to 23 December 2004.

The names for your individual assignments are posted on a Google Doc titles Upperclassmen Witness Individual Assignments shared with the substitute teacher and the class leaders on their email accounts, including student accounts. 

Click on this Link for the Google Doc

Ensure you go to the class period Tab on the bottom of the Google Doc Spread sheet.!!!!

May 19 (Mon): Second Battle of Fallujah

Today, you will watch a video in class about Operation Phantom Fury. Each class period (see below) will be responsible for building one Three fold poster board by Thursday (to rehearse) about an aspect of the battle:

Period 2: The Enemy Forces in Fallujah
Period 4:  Overview of the Battle 
Period 6:  Friendly Forces
Period 7:  Challenges in Fighting in an Urban Battle

Here is the video to watch in class. Take notes on paper and add them to your research notes on the Google Doc when you can on your own time. 

Some of this footage may be too graphic, so if you feel uncomfortable let the teacher know and you will be excused. 

Tomorrow you will be given the names of the US Serviceman you will bear witness too. 

Memorial Day Module: The Second Battle of Fallujah (Operation Phantom Fury)

The Second Battle of Fallujah


Our classes will focus on Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) which is the major military focus in Iraq during the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT). Specifically we will focus on the Second Battle of Fallujah. It would be helpful to read about the First Battle of Fallujah as well. 

Click on the Link Above to Get a basic overview and research some of the associated links. 

Your assignment on day one is to:

1.  Conduct some general research online to develop a basic understanding of that battle.

2. Start a Google Doc for yourself titled "Research on Second Battle of Fallujah" and share that Google Doc with me at 
killackeyr@norwalkps.org  .   Starting today place any information, links, etc. you find interesting as you "mine" the information. Place everything you think is important on this document to manage your information. 

3. Some things to think about:

• Coalition and US Forces versus the Enemy (Al Qaeda, Former Regime Loyalists, Shia Extremists).
• Significance of the City of Fallujah
• Contrast between the First Battle of Fallujah versus the Second Battle of Fallujah.
• What type of environment was this combat taking place in this battle?
• What were the casualties associated with this battle?
• What are some books associated with this battle?
• Who were the American casualties? What can you tell me about the persons who lost their lives in this battle?

The most important thing we do during this Memorial Day Module is to bear witness to their sacrifice. How much effort will you give to honor them...?

NAVAL TASK FORCE SEARCH FOR THE MISSING PLANE

As we prepare to organize into 7th Fleet Naval Task Force Groupings, we are going to conduct some background education into the recovery efforts that follow an aircraft accident and investigation similar to Malaysian Flight 370. This crash investigation is too immature to be able to analyze what happened, so we will look at another crash with more information available.

In a recovery effort over the ocean there are generally a number of factors affecting the search:

• Flight Plan for the plane (Where the plane is supposed to fly)
• Radar Flight Path (Where the plane actually flew) to determine when you lost contact with the missing plane. This also helps determine where to start your search. 
• Once the search is initiated they generally use three methods to find the plane:
• Visual Sighting (air crews and sea crews looking for survivors or wreckage)
• Surface Radar: from surface craft and aviation assets to find the survivors or wreckage on the surface of the water..
• Sonar is used to find the plane or (find flight data recorder)

There was a previous crash Air France 447 that departed from Brazil to France when it crashed. The only way transportation authorities can determine what might have happened to cause the crash is if they recover the remnants of the plane and the flight data recorder which has considerable detailed information. Your mission will be to recover the flight data recorder, but it is important to see how that recovery effort fits into the bigger question,We will watch a video which will give us some background:

This crash and the recovery effort will give your teams some perspective on your upcoming task.           

Recovery Efforts Cost Money   

NS1's: WHAT ARE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE JROTC?

Your task today in class is to form into three or four groups with a designated class leader and note taker. 
The student-cadet group leaders will facilitate a small geoup discussion responding to the question:

WHAT ARE YOUR SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE NJROTC?

As a group think about the things in the program including the curriculum that you like and do not like. Develop some professional recommendations on how to improve our program. Make sure your group note-taker copies down the group recommendations. Your group will turn in their recommendations and it is not required to write your names.