Unit Emblem Design:
One of our first tasks as a unit will be to design our unit emblem.  This emblem will represent our NE-20091 unit to all other JROTC unit’s across the nation and around the world.  It will represent our unit for eternity, and so it must actually be representative of Lincoln Northeast (even though not all of you are LNE students outside of AFJROTC) because eventually we would hope to see JROTC units opened at all Lincoln High Schools.  It will be worn directly on our uniforms (as a patch), as well as used in our letterhead and on our unit coins.  If you would like to be a part of this lasting legacy in our unit, then put your artistic skills to work and design an emblem for us!  If possible, we would love to already have our emblem selected shortly after the school year starts, so this is certainly something to jump on now if you are interested in being a part of it.  Feel free to work with other cadets on your ideas, as this does not have to be a one-person show!  Here are your design requirements:
1. Must be round.
2. Must be between 2.5 and 3 inches in diameter.
3. Must be Lincoln NE-specific in color (black and white) and “mascotishness” (the rocket).
4. Must include our unit designation (NE-20091).
If you have any questions at all regarding this, please contact either of the AFJROTC instructors.  We’d love to hear from you!

T-Shirt Design:
In addition to the unit emblem design, we want to create a design for unit t-shirts to be sold and worn to various JROTC activities in the community.  This is a great way for your participation in helping our great community to be easily recognized.  This t-shirt design must represent all of our cadets because it is a design specific to this year. Unlike our unit emblem, this should NOT be LNE-centric and should include equal representation for all of the schools from which we will have cadets participating (currently this includes East, Lincoln Lutheran, Northeast, North Star, Southwest, and Lincoln Pius).  As well, the t-shirt design gives you far more flexibility than you would have for the patch, simply due to space requirements.  We would like to be able to vote on a winning t-shirt design very early in the school year (yes, all of us will be voting on it as a whole, presuming we have more than one design submitted).  Of course, the instructors reserve the right to eliminate a submission prior to voting if we feel it is inappropriate.  Your only real design requirements is that you represent all schools (or none of them would also be acceptable).
If you have any questions at all regarding this, especially as regards what may or may not be seen as appropriate, please contact either of the AFJROTC instructors.  We’d love to hear from you!

Fundraising and Community Service Ideas:
We are going to be faced with two great challenges this year.  The first will be fundraising.  In order for us to be able to do some of the things we will want to (purchasing items for the classroom and transportation for field trips and drill meets just to name a few), we’re going to need to figure out some ways to raise money.  We as instructors have already thought of a few, but you cadets are our best resource.  You’re involved with other organizations and you’ve seen what works and what doesn’t work very well.  You’re bright, imaginative and creative…so use those qualities to help us out by thinking of some ways we can raise some funds to help make this year even more fun! 
Any ideas you have, send them right in to the instructors so we can start making arrangements if we think something will work well and also so we can ask you questions about the idea if we have any.  We want to hit the ground running with this as soon as school starts.

Our other challenge is identifying needs within the Lincoln community where we can assist.  We’re not necessarily looking for projects that require weekly attendance (though we may have one or two), but mostly for things that are one-shot situations.  For instance, if one of your little brothers or sisters has a school carnival and they never have enough help for it – maybe we can!  Another example might be going to the VA Hospital just to talk to some of the veterans there who don’t really have anyone they can talk to.  Your ideas can be large (involving most of our AFJROTC class) or they can be small (just a couple of us showing up)…whatever the need is.  At this point, the more ideas you have for us, the better we can find those things that would make the best impact on people’s lives.  Please don’t commit to anything…simply let the instructors know of your ideas (if you know of a point of contact, by all means feel free to give us that)…it will be our job to commit to them.  Again, please contact the AFJROTC instructors if you have any questions or to send us ideas!

AFJROTC LETTER:
We would like to incorporate the ability to earn a “letter” into our program (much as you would earn a letter for football or band).  However, our program is unique in that we have cadets from many different schools in the Lincoln area.  This presents a challenge to us, because we want our letter to be something that every one of you is proud of and we don’t want those of you who are from schools other than Lincoln Northeast to feel “slighted” at getting a Lincoln Northeast letter.  So we need ideas.  What can we do to make “the letter” you can earn in our program be something that you feel you can wear with pride?  Brainstorm this – use your imagination and your creativity – there’s an answer out there, we just have to find it.  No idea too strange!  Help us out!

AFJROTC Organizational Chart and Position Descriptions:
One of the most beneficial aspects of Air Force Junior ROTC is that it is very much a cadet-driven organization.  That means just what it says…the cadets run things.  They make day-to-day decisions as well as far-reaching long-term decisions.  As you have seen already simply from the few things we’ve listed on this website, the cadets will have full control over the impact of the program on themselves as well as the community and absolutely control the success of the program and “how high it flies”.  With that in mind, there are a wealth of positions within our program that we will need cadets to fill.  If you click on this link <here>, you will see our Organizational Chart.  This lists the positions which we will have available.  The lines detail the “chain of command” and how authority flows within our program.  If you click on this link <here>, you will see each of those positions explained in regards to what duties they will be expected to perform.  We will need to assign positions fairly early in the school year so that we can be most productive, so if you spend some time now looking at them, you’ll have a much better idea of what you would find the most interesting and enjoyable for you.  But don’t let yourself get locked in on “I must have this position”…the competition will be tough and so we highly recommend that you find several positions which you would enjoy taking on, as that increases your opportunity to gain a position where you can have a great impact!