WELCOME

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Bellevue East Drill Team: Lee‘s Summit West High School 2025
Welcome to the website for the Bellevue East Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps or AFJROTC. This site is intended for use by cadets and their parents as a quick source of reference on upcoming corps events. Available for your use is information about our various teams and activities, accessible from the tabs above. No sensitive or personal data about our cadets is included, as we value the security of our program. While the web team is constantly working to keep the site up-to-date and functional, we aren't perfect. Any suggestions for content or improvement can be forwarded to our webmaster from the Contact Us tab.

Mission Statement

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"To develop citizens of character"

Objectives

-To educate and train high school students in citizenship: promote community service, instill responsibility, character, and self-discipline, and provide instruction in air and space fundamentals.
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-To instill values of citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment in high school students.

Cadet Handbook 25-26

Our Social Media

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Corps Goals:

Cadet Impact:
• NE-021 cadets receive a free hands-on, "Stop the Bleed" training course from a national organization to prepare cadets to act as first aid responders during an emergency medical crisis. Upon completion of the course, cadets will take a written and performance evaluations and will achieve an 80% or better.
• NE-021 cadets will take a personality assessment conducted by a behavioral specialist. This test will be used to identify learning styles along with assessing cadet strengths, weaknesses, honing leadership and communication within our Corps. Upon completion of the assessment, cadets will take a written evaluation and receive 80% or better.  
• 50% of the NE-021 Corps will have at least a "3.0" overall cumulative grade point average by the end of the school year. We will achieve this using a "hand on our back" approach to cadets that need academic assistance. Our Kitty Hawk Air Society will conduct individual tutoring sessions for students in-need, encouraging cadets to seek assistance and increase our tutoring presence in the Corps.
School Impact:
• Cadets will conduct a "Clean the Beast" (Bellevue East) campaign to emphasize keeping our school clean and help bolster the pride in Bellevue East. The program aligns with the principal's goal to enhance the image of our school throughout the community. Cadets will learn how their efforts can benefit the entire school and community while reducing labor for the custodians and bringing enhanced pride in the school's appearance and student ownership. We are aiming for 90% participation from current cadets.
• NE-021 will increase the current enrollment numbers by 10% promoting AFJROTC participation. We will use a three-pronged approach:
     • Conduct middle school lunch time visits at all three feeder middle schools. Current cadets will visit their alma mater schools to share the benefits of the AFJROTC program. Cadets will showcase leadership development requirement programs.
     • We will continue to push the "Citizenship" award at each feeder school where the middle school staff can nominate 3 students to attend AFJROTC sports, pool and arcade (SPA) nights. These 9 selectees will be welcomed by the current group staff and included in all the evenings activities. Last year 2 of the 3 feeder schools participated in this program. This year we will push to get all 3 involved.
     • We will update our current recruiting slideshow and create artifacts (posters, banners, etc.) showcasing the LDR's, cadet structure and activities we have been doing throughout the year. The corps will also start up social media pages in accordance with Maxwell guidelines and BPS policies to help spread the word about our programs.
​Community Impact:
• NE-021 will dedicate 3,500 service hours in support of a broad range of service activities throughout the community. This will bring a closer connection with the cadets of NE-021, the community, and the school.
• NE- 021 will conduct a non-perishable food drive partnered with Bellevue West AFJROTC. During September this will culminate at the East/West football game where all of the items and donations will be given to the Bellevue Food Pantry. Our goal is to collect 15% more than last year's drive sales.