DCHS cadets conduct survival training at Milan Training Facility

Friday, November 16, 2012

On Nov. 2 and 3, cadets from the Dyer County High School JROTC had the opportunity to put two weeks of instruction together in an overnight survival scenario. NCOs from the Tennessee National Guard were asked to be guest lecturers on the topic of survival and provide the cadets with a live scenario that would teach the cadets how to stay overnight if a situation presented itself. The NCOs, MSG Hardy and SFC Chris West, took several days to instruct the cadets on different techniques on water purification, how to build a fire, and how to build a shelter from items from a survival kit that the cadets were instructed to build from items at their homes.

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