Command Corner   Spring 2008   We are now progressing up to the Summer Training Cycle. There are many exciting training available and all cadets are expected to attend at least one training this year. Your Request for Orders are now due, please get them and your Money Order to LT(jg) Nardini as soon as possible. You are also responsible for completing you Current Correspondence course. You do not need to wait until you complete the entire course to turn in the sections you have completed. If you mail the completed sections to me, please copy the sections before you trust them to the US Mail. We have a verbal commitment from Col Wesley Fox USMC (ret) to visit us during October’s Drill. Col Fox is a Medal of Honor recipient who visited us about 5 years ago. I realized that most of the cadets had never had the opportunity of meeting Col Fox and we are working on arranging his visit. Most people in the military have never had the honor of meeting a Recipient and this is a chance you may never get again. We are starting a new training activity. We will be teaching the Sea Bee Combat course during drills. We plan on covering at least one section each month. These sections will be taught by the adult staff and guest instructors. Many of these sections will have to be taught in the field. We will be passing out the “Assignment” sections from the Course. Each cadet is encouraged to keep up to date with the assignments as they are taught so you can receive credit for passing the course. During the pass 3 years the Adult Staff has focused on areas within the Battalion that needed improvement. We focused on Admin and Training. These areas, with the hard work of many, have improved to the point where we can re-focus on different areas. The areas we are now going to focus on are Attendance, Recruiting, and Retention. We need to increase the size of the Battalion, Increase our Attendance Percentage, and insure all cadets stay in the program. These tasks will require a lot of hard work from everyone. The adult staff is committed to doing everything necessary to improve these areas, but it will take effort from the cadets also. You should plan on attending every drill possible. Please insure your parents have the drill schedule and do not plan activities on drill weekends. Every cadet should be able to recruit at least 1 cadet per year. Talk to your friends and explain the program, you will find others that are interested. As in every year we will be losing our seniors. We wish them luck in the future and hope they keep in touch. When the senior cadets leave, the Cadet Command Structure will be changing. Many hours have been spent on deciding on the new structure, and I hope you support the new command staff as well as you supported the prior staff. I also to make sure every cadet and parent know that I have always had and will always have an “Open Door” policy. If there are issues you or your parents would like to discuss with myself, please just let me know. I want to issue a very big “THANK YOU” for all the hard work by the all the cadets and my adult staff. I could not do my job with the support of everyone working together. LT David Loether NSCC Commanding Officer Pittsburgh Battalion   Site last updated on 28 Aug 2007 Email any comments or suggestions about this site to the web master.