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    Fall 2018 FROG Week transcript

    My name is Jacob Starett. I am a cadet

    Lieutenant Colonel here in the Corps of

    Cadets. I'm currently the deputy brigade

    commander for operations, otherwise known

    as brigade XO. And this week I got the

    privilege to be the FROG Week

    commander. FROG Week, it's always

    something new. I came from basic training

    so I thought I knew it all when I came

    to the FROG week but it's a whole new

    learning experience, learning how to be a

    student, how to be a cadet and also going

    from high school and just the

    challenges of being a college student,

    learning military tactics, history. I

    think it's an awesome thing, they're

    learning so much every day. It's a lot of

    great training. They learn a lot and they

    just learn how to balance their lives

    and it's the introduction to how

    to become a leader. Pine Valley is really

    our first I say hands off day. The cadre

    they kind of step back and the FROGS

    take charge. They go through what's

    called leadership reaction courses

    kind of like obstacle courses that it

    takes something to get to get through so

    we kind of just let them loose and we

    see leaders emerge from each group. I

    think it's a really cool thing.

    My favorite part of FROG Week has been

    just the camaraderie that everyone has

    come together. A lot of the guys from

    coming from different backgrounds, from

    different areas of the country have all

    come together. I definitely say there's

    no other way to do it. UNG's a great

    school.

    You gotta train, you got to work hard. You

    got to come here with a hard work

    ethic, that's the only way to do it.

    So I think what makes North Georgia so

    good at producing leaders is that we

    make them lead. We don't just talk about

    leadership theories. Yes, we learn about

    them, but we execute them every day from

    being a squad leader all going to being the

    brigade commander. You're thrown into

    the mix. Obviously you have active duty

    and military science cadre helping you

    but ultimately if you're given a task

    it's your job to figure out how to do it,

    your job figure out how to lead your

    troops to accomplish a mission. And I

    think that's what makes great leaders

    from this school.

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