an AJROTC Regiment

[El Supremo]

If there were ever a high school cadet corps large enough, would cadet command have to create new ranks? Me and my buddy were messing around and he came up with Cadet Sergeant Major of the Corps of Cadets, lol.

If they ever made something like a Cadet Brigadier General I dont think the insignia should be a star, it would be better if they used like a different shape for the insignia; kinda like how they use discs and diamonds for company and field grade officers.

I just thought it was a funny topic, has anybody else ever though about this before?

[armysc_25b]

I don't see it ever happening. The way they organize the Corps, there's no way for there to be a "command" higher than the brigade level for cadets, which has a c/COL commanding it and the senior enlisted would be a c/CSM. What Chicago does by authorizing c/BG is wrong, and the fact that their own made it to the Army.mil webpage in a picture, if I remember right behind GEN Casey, is a complete shame.

[El Supremo]

I don't see it ever happening. The way they organize the Corps, there's no way for there to be a "command" higher than the brigade level for cadets, which has a c/COL commanding it and the senior enlisted would be a c/CSM. What Chicago does by authorizing c/BG is wrong, and the fact that their own made it to the Army.mil webpage in a picture, if I remember right behind GEN Casey, is a complete shame.

and Cadet Command let that happen?! your right about that though, that is a complete shame.

[armysc_25b]

I highly doubt anything's been said to Cadet Command, or has action been taken by them. At present, their "City Corps Commander" is a c/Rear Admiral, which again goes to show you how much you should take their program to have any meaning.

Just to give you an idea what they get away with (and this is just from the Army.mil webpage, the same weekend GEN Casey was there):

http://www.army.mil/-images/2008/05/26/16093/army.mil-2008-05-27-120240.jpg - The c/LTC in the image is wearing a beret that too closely resembles the color worn by Special Forces.

http://www.army.mil/-images/2008/05/26/16100/army.mil-2008-05-27-121346.jpg - Given the fact that the flag at the viewer's right in front of the formation is colors for an AJROTC Unit, and the size of the cadet carrying that and the US Colors, I'm going on a limb here and saying that there are cadets in the guard positions in this color guard, and that them wearing a stetson is far beyond NOT authorized.

http://www.army.mil/-images/2008/05/26/16095/army.mil-2008-05-27-121151.jpg - My favorite, it's our offending "c/BG".

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This picture come from Chicago JROTC's own webpage... I won't spam here, but to prove how disgusted I am with how the unit is run...

http://www.chicagojrotc.com/album/79948/61323.jpg - An ARMY GENERAL OFFICER participated in the "commissioning ceremony" for this school year, the cadet in the picture is that "c/Rear Admiral".

[Armed Drill Addict]

This is really a shame that some of these units have such a disregard for regulation. Especially the the c/ Rear Admiral; beacuse technically there isn't even a regualtion c/ Captain (c/ 0-6) in Navy JROTC. The rank can be awarded by Area Managers, but in our field manual it ends at c/CMDR.

[C/SSGT Seifer]

My Battalion Commander (a Cadet Lieutenant Colonel) likes to say Regiment just to see how it would feel. I think that it would be pretty cool for there to be a big enough unit to be a regiment. If it ever did get that big though I think that it would become kind of impersonal and we would lose the brother/sisterhood that the battalion's teams are based on.

[PhilK]

Just to clarify, most Brigades and Regiments are commanded by Colonels.

Divisions are commanded by Major Generals

There are some Enhanced or Seperate Brigades that are commanded by Brigadier Generals but they are the exception, not the norm.