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Back to School; Back to Drill

7/31/2019

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With school starting again, and the Sea Cadets nearly done with summer training, it is time for drills to start up again. Our first drill will be August 10-11. The POD is available on the Shutterfly site, and on the battalion website homepage. This will be a fun drill, beginning with swim qualifications (and hopefully some waterslide runs). On Sunday we will have a STEELBEACH picnic at the NOSC for cadets, parents and visitors.

There should be a good number of prospective recruits in attendance. This is a great time to join, because recruits will have plenty of time to start their BMR work and earning their uniform before the winter holidays. If you have friends who are interested in becoming a sea cadet, send them to our "Join Us" page for instructions.

We hope to see everyone at drill to catch up with shipmates and exchange their summer sea stories.
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Merchant Marine Operations and Seamanship Training in Galveston

7/27/2019

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Three of the Alamo Battalion's Sea Cadets learned a range of seamanship skills at Texas A&M University in Galveston Texas. The Alamo Battalion's Cadet PO3 Isaac Arredondo, Cadet PO3 Christavella Arredondo and Cadet SN Paola Quintanilla practiced navigation, damage-control and other seamanship skills during a one-week training.

Cadets participated in an advanced shipboard navigation simulator, learning how to navigate a large open ocean vessel.  Cadets also drove high speed vessels in response to emergencies, learned how to plot navigation on charts, and we able to go underway in a merchant marine vessel.

Bravo Zulu, cadets! 
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Cadet SA Vasquez: NSCC Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman Training

7/27/2019

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Some of the toughest advanced training in the Sea Cadets is at the Naval Special Warfare Orientation Course in Panama City, Florida. The Alamo Battalion congratulates Cadet Seaman Apprentice Zachary Vasquez on earning the NSCC Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewman (SWCC) Device, marking him among the elite of the Sea Cadet Corps.
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Cadets in NSWOC training are in either the SEAL, SWCC or EOD Tracks, each of which is conducted in four phases: ​Conditioning, Water Operations, Land Warfare, and Scenarios. Of course, cadets get wet and sandy.
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Later, cadets from all tracks receive firearms training. SEAL and EOD cadets are familiarized with explosive demolition and explosive breaching demonstrations. SWCC Cadets participate in waterborne boat operations including insertion/extractions/cover techniques and Boat maintenance.

All NSWOC cadets participate in squad contact drills, E&E Drills, operational planning, communication, navigation, and other classes relating to the specific training tracks.
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BZ to Cadet SA Vasquez and all his shipmates in the NSWOC 2019 graduating class. To learn more about NSWOC training in the Sea Cadets, visit their website at nswoc.org.
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Cadet PO1 Mora: Leadership in Action

7/27/2019

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In the Sea Cadets, summer is training season. The Alamo Battalion's cadets have travelled coast-to-coast this summer for advanced training. We are so proud of what they've accomplished that the next few posts will highlight some of what our cadets have been doing.
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The Alamo Battalion's Cadet Petty Officer First Class Kobe Mora practiced his leadership skills in two summer training sessions: Medical Field Operations and Recruit Training, where he served as a staff cadet -- a senior enlisted training billet where he supervised the cadets undergoing training.

In Medical Field Operations, cadets learned about providing basic and emergency medical care in the field. In Recruit Training, the Sea Cadets' "boot camp", PO1 Mora served as a teacher and mentor to new Sea Cadets, and an example for recruits to follow. The gallery below shows some of what PO1 Mora did this summer. How did you spend your summer?
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The Alamo Battalion Hosts POLA 2019

7/25/2019

 
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The Alamo Battalion is hosting the Petty Officer Leadership Academy this week, and what could be more appropriate than a trip to the Alamo. Twenty cadets from New Jersey to California came to the Alamo City to make the transition from Sea Cadet followers to Sea Cadet leaders. They studied a variety of subjects to prepare them for their anticipated promotions to leadership billets in their home units, learned from the experience of Army and Marine Corps combat veterans, and had fun practicing marksmanship, small boating, and doing lots of PT.

    INST Antonio Amesquita, NSCC

    Public Affairs Officer

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