New Fallbrook Marine Corps JROTC Raiders team takes top honors

FALLBROOK – Recently forming a Raiders Team, the Fallbrook High School Marine Corps JROTC is continuing to expand offerings and challenges for its cadets. A Raider team focuses on challenges that require physical fitness, team work, goal setting, problem-solving, resourcefulness, confidence building and orienteering skills.

The newly formed team started their rigorous training four months ago, and in only their second competition testing their mettle, the team took three first place awards and placed second overall out of 22 teams.

The competition, called the Battle at Bandini, was held Feb. 2...