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At Drill-Team Dynamics Inc., we are very selective about choosing trainers to fit the needs of your unit. Our goal is to match you with the best fit from our wide range of trainers, all of whom are highly skilled and talented in their own right. We go to great lengths to ensure that the individuals who come to your school are consummate professionals on the drill deck and off.  While there are many who excel at teaching (and even more who excel at drill), we are blessed to maintain a group of associates who truly represent the best the drill community has offer.  Here are some of the factors we utilize in choosing how to best staff a training function for maximum effect!  The bottom line is this: we will never compromise the quality or safety of your training and we will always make a recommendation that puts your needs first.

Safety

The well-being of your cadets is at the forefront of all our decisions.  Our rule-of-thumb is very simple: We will not allow a training mission to progress if the ratio of cadets to trainers exceeds 16:1.  In other words, we strive to ensure that each platoon/flight formation is represented by a Drill-Team Dynamics Inc. trainer.  This means that a school requesting training for 40 cadets will be staffed with 3 trainers.  Depending upon the specific types of training requested, we may also recommend additional trainers.  A school with a large number of cadets inexperienced in armed exhibition drill has different safety requirements than a team highly-experienced in armed exhibition drill.  Our goal is to keep eyes on your cadets 100% of the time during a training mission.   With very rare exceptions (mostly for individual color guard units), all training missions will be staffed with a minimum of 2 trainers.

Effective Instruction

Our mission is to deliver highly effective instruction – meaning that no cadet is left out.  As we get to know you and your program, we ask many questions designed to help us better understand where your cadets are and how we can best meet them where they stand today.  If a school is particularly keen on in-depth color guard training, we will do our best to assign a specific trainer to your color guard teams.  If multiple schools decide to join together for training, we will take this into consideration and staff accordingly.  As talented as our trainers are, we will never compromise instructional quality to the individual cadet by under-staffing a training mission.  We know that 1 trainer might have a positive impact on both an unarmed and armed drill team.  However, we know that 2+ trainers will more than double the effectiveness of the teaching.

Background & Experience

We make every attempt to pair each group we service with trainers who match their ability, experience, service affiliation, and style.  Though we require all our trainers to be proficient and knowledgable across all major service manuals, each individual brings their own background and experience to the table.  We do our best to ensure there is a duty expert in the service manual of the unit at each function.  Additionally, we have experts such as Edford Luckey, MSG, USA (Ret.) who specialize in specific areas of competitive drill (in this case, Army color guard).  We take this into account as we select the best trainers to meet your needs.  This is especially true when it comes to exhibition drill.  We have individuals who excel at teaching brand new beginning drillers and trainers who have an eye for bringing out the best in an already-skilled group.  Whether you’re training for a specific event or just getting started, we have trainers with the skill sets to match.

Geographic Location

As former instructors and educators, we understand the financial aspect associated with running a quality JROTC program and conducting a professional function such as a Drill-Team Dynamics Inc. workshop.  As such, one of our considerations is most definitely geographic proximity to your unit.  In many cases, units located within driving distance of our trainers benefit from reduced travel costs.  While the perfect trainer for your program may be across the country, we do take travel arrangements into consideration because we’re sensitive to the costs involved with cross-country air travel.  If we can leverage geography to your advantage, we will most certainly do so, however, this is a tertiary factor in our decision-making process.

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The staff of Drill-Team Dynamics Inc. would like to wish all JROTC instructors and cadets best of luck as school begins around the country! With the start of school comes the rigorous after-school practice schedule necessary to prepare the team for excellence. Not to mention hours of community service, fundraising, and performing!

Good luck and we’ll see you across the drill pad!

Many times, cadets and drillers labor in the shadows. So any time drill gets a chance to shine in the public eye is a great opportunity to showcase how amazing this activity truly is.

On Memorial Day 2014, GoPro, the maker of the popular HD sports action video cameras by the same name, featured Drill-Team Dynamics Inc. Staff Member Mr. Michael Renn alongside his twin brother current Army officer 2LT Adam Renn.

The YouTube video was featured on GoPro’s official website and channel and currently has nearly 65,000 views worldwide! The Renns are amazing ambassadors for our activity!

You can check out the official GoPro video here:

SFC Carol Dosia left active duty Army life and immediately accepted a position as a JROTC instructor. By her own account, the standards and expectations she was accustomed to did not match the realities of her new home. Despite initial frustrations, SFC Dosia soon realized how strong of a guiding force her influence could be; she could bring to bear her years of experience as a soldier to mentor and grow her cadets.

However, one thing the Army did not prepare her for was what she witnessed at her first drill competition. In fact, as the instructor charged with supervising the unarmed drill team, she was confused by what she saw as a hybrid of dance and drill.

The Irving MacArthur High School AJROTC Cardinal Battalion held their first Drill-Team Dynamics Inc. Workshop on April 18 and 19, 2014. In attendance were cadets who would form the backbone of next season’s armed, unarmed, and color guard teams.

“I think that based off of today, we are way better than before we started,” one cadet noted after the first day’s work was done.

“Way better” definitely describes the transformation these cadets displayed in just 8 hours of training. When asked, the cadets said that a typical practice could last about an hour with only 15 to 20 minutes of that hour dedicated to true, on-the-deck marching and drilling. For these cadets, the 16 hours would dwarf the training they were used to.

By the time training concluded on day one, not only were the physical abilities of the cadets vastly improved by virtue of their hard work, their understanding of drill had changed for the better as well.

One cadet commented, “[I learned] that we have the ability to control inspection in our favor; turn the game around on the instructors.”

Day two was marked with training in both exhibition drill and color guard drill. Discussions formed the backbone of practical exercises designed to help the MacArthur cadets take their current drill style and transform it into something a military judge would recognize, understand, and appreciate as military drill and ceremonies.

“The breaking down of what we have into something that is far more amazing,” is how one cadet described the instruction. “Not that our drill was terrible but there is another level that we haven’t yet reached but you took us there.”

Drill-Team Dynamics Inc. seeks to provide training that is as enriching for the body as it is for the mind. When one cadet raised her hand and explained how she now had a reason to come to practice, all knew the team had grown leaps and bounds from where they began.

As one cadet told us: “[I learned] the importance of executing every command to the fullest no matter even if it’s just an after school practice.”

SFC Dosia dismissed her cadets from the workshop by reminding them that learning and growing was one thing but applying what they’d learned was quite another. After all, there is no magic fix and no competitive guarantee; only hard work and sustained, focused effort will ensure success. Her tone, however, left no doubt about her dedication to improving and growing in the coming season.

Note: All quotes come directly from actual written participant feedback. They are unaltered and names have been withheld for privacy.