Nevada High School Air Force JROTC Program Earns the Air Force's Highest Community Service Award...Again!
The Nevada High School (NHS) Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFJROTC) has earned, for the fourth time in the last five years, the “Silver Star” Community Service with Excellence Award for the 2025-26 school year. This prestigious award recognizes the top 5% of all AFJROTC units (870 units worldwide) based on community service in support of schools and local communities. Colonel Tipton, Director of Air Force JROTC, wrote in his congratulatory letter to retired Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Bryan Eckart and Chief Master Sergeant Dustin Dulier, "The importance of service and understanding how it positively impacts our cadets, schools, communities, and our nation is fundamental
to our AFJROTC mission of “Developing Citizens of Character.” This year, the cadets of AF/SF JROTC completed 1,672,917 community service hours!"
All NHS cadets in good standing in community service will receive the Community Service with Excellence ribbon with a Silver Star device for their uniforms. Lt. Col. Eckart, Senior Aerospace Science Instructor, said "earning the Silver Star Community Service with Excellence Award is a testament to the culture and commitment of our cadets and to the leadership and dedication of our Cadet Corps, Flight Commanders, and Squadron Staff personnel."
For the current school year, Nevada JROTC cadets performed 3628 hours of community service this year with a cadet average of over 67 hours of community service. Our JROTC corps has exhibited the Air Force core value of Service Before Self and our cadets are known throughout the community for our service. Our cadets hosted multiple events to collect food and monetary donations for the Community Outreach food pantry and Moss House, a local domestic violence shelter.
Cadets Jovani Miranda, Alexis Carter, Tessa Stafford, Zaydon Lower, Kaden Carter, Hayley Mather, Lucas Gage, Lucas Cardenas, Raven Matthews, Brooklynn Hoag, Dani Thron, Connor Irwin, Lars Buck, and Morgan Austin led the way in community service hours each with over 100 hours of community service this year (Austin over 200 hours).
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