The drill team at Kubasaki High School has done something no other Dragon Battalion has done is 20 years – win the Marine Corps Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps national drill championship.
Note: This article has been corrected.
Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. CAMP FOSTER, Okinawa Brent Cook needed more bodies for his Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps drill program at Camp Foster’s Kubasaki High School. Students there, deprived during the coronavirus pandemic of their regular extracurricular outlets football, volleyball, basketball and the rest needed something, anything, to do and a team to bond with. That proved beneficial for Cook, who coached the Kubasaki Dragon Battalion to top honors at the Far East Drill Competition in December, according to results announced last week. The drill team took four of five events in the virtual competition.