FROG Week 2008

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FROG Week Day 1

FROG Week Day 2

FROG Week Day 3

FROG Week Day 4

FROG Week Day 5

FROG Week Day 6

Beginning on Tuesday, August 12th and running through Sunday, August 17th, all new members of the Corps will participate in an experience that will last them a lifetime! To complete this transition from civilian student to military cadet, individuals must rely on each other and work as a team. This process involves learning more about their squad and company members than just their names.

Overview:

Welcome to your first ROTC experience at North Georgia College & State University, F.R.O.G. week. In less than a week you will have already completed a series of tasks that will motivate you to a new level.

Day One:

Upon arrival at NGCSU, you will begin in-processing into the Corps of Cadets. Your company will already be assigned to you and the cadre will direct you towards the appropriate barracks. You will unload your luggage and be placed into a small group to continue with in-processing. Then you will run to the records administration location and filter through that area. After you complete this process, you will receive a fresh hair cut from one of the local barbers. If you have ordered your gear from our campus bookstore, you will then be taken to pick up that equipment. You will then return to your respective barracks and meet the cadre of your company. Be sure to stand tall and look good. Then it is time to carry all your new gear into your new room. You will unload your equipment before going to eat chow. Before the night is through you will have a meeting with the President of the college, our Commandant of Cadets, Professor of Military Science, and other officials that will be here to serve your interest. After the President’s welcome there will be a short run back to the barracks where you will be given time for set up of your room and get cleaned up before heading off to bed. Lights Out!

Day Two:

Before the sun rises you will be on your feet for First Call. Depending on the battalion you are placed in, there will a P.T. (Physical Training) test that will test your endurance in push-ups, sit-ups, and a two-mile run. If you do not take the test on the second day, it will be taken on the third day. Regardless there will be P.T. with your company within the first three days. You will head back to your room to for personal hygiene and then go to chow. You will also take a break during the afternoon to go to chow for lunch. Through out the day the cadre will be giving a series of military oriented classes that will assist you here at NGCSU. Once the classes are done for the day you will have a briefing from the Assistant Commandant of Cadets letting you know your responsibilities as a cadet. Again, you will run back to the barracks and be given time to set up your rooms. Lights Out!

Day Three:

Wake up, now it is time for the fun to begin. It’s time for P.T. / P.T. test, once you finish that you will get cleaned up and head to chow. After breakfast you will pick up your weapon and start drill and ceremony. This is when you will get to know your weapon and how to march in a formation with the weapon. You will have more classes that will teach you how to perform these functions correctly. Have you ever ridden in Blackhawk? Well now is your chance. You and the other FROGs will take a tour of Dahlonega, from the air. After that everyone will head to the chow hall for dinner. Then you will participate in one of the most important traditions that the Army has, Retreat, the ceremony of lowering the United States flag. Once the ceremony is over you will be taken around our campus to learn many of the college’s traditions. Then it’s off to the barracks for personal hygiene and bed.

Day Four:

By this time your endurance is being tested. It’s still dark outside and you are doing P.T. with your company. After you get cleaned up and eat, you will take a little trip. On day four you will go to NGCSU’s training facility at Pine Valley. Remember one thing; encourage your cadre to get dirty today. Here you experience the grenade obstacle course and leadership reaction course and a demonstration from one of the specialty units here on campus. Also today you will have classes from other specialty units. The Mountain Order of Colombo will teach you the basics of how to survive in the wilderness. You will also learn how to engage an enemy with only your weapon as defense (Pugil Sticks). This is a great day to see what you are made of. You will then travel back to the college. You will eat chow, then clean up and hit the rack. If you are not tired by the end of today, don’t worry there is always tomorrow. Lights Out!

Day Five:

Almost done, but there is another jam-packed day ahead of you. You are beginning to understand that the information gained during the classes this week is being put to the test. You will go to Camp Frank D. Merrill; Camp Merrill is the Army’s Ranger mountain phase. You will train where the elite train. Your company will take a road march to the training site where you will see a demonstration from Colombo. Today you will be repelling down a thirty-foot repel tower and once you have overcome the tower you will take on the sixty-foot rock face. Ranger Challenge, another specialty unit, will teach you how to cross a one-rope bridge and three-rope bridge across a river. Everyone needs to learn self-defense, so the specialty unit called the Combatives will teach you how to stop an attacker with a knife and other techniques that will serve you. The Corps of Cadets will then go on a road march that is over six miles. Just remember only one-day left. You then will travel back to campus where you will eat chow. This night is reserved of the presentation of the company Gideon. It will be given to the most outstanding individual in the F.R.O.G. class for that company, good luck!

Day Six:

Last day of F.R.O.G. Week, just get through today and you are done. Everyone will get up and dress into P.T.’s and head out for a light breakfast. Once you are done with chow your company will head to the drill field so that the Crown Mountain Run can begin. This is a little over three miles, up a mountain. You can do it; you have made it this far so do not quit. After the run there will be a ceremony accepting you into NGCSU. The guidon bearer will also be recognized at this time. Following the ceremony you will be release to get cleaned up, put on a fresh set of B.D.U.’s, and partake in our traditional luncheon of frog legs. When you are finished chow, you are able to spend the rest of the time with family and friends. Congratulations on making it through the week. You will be told when you are to report back to the company. Enjoy yourself and be safe.