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2022 Area 3 West Regional Academic, Athletic and Drill competition

220226-N-IK959-1145 ZION, Ill. (February 26, 2022) – Retired U. S. Navy Capt. Tim Daseler (right), Naval Service Training Command (NSTC) Deputy Commander for NJROTC Operations, joins the Wheeling (Illinois) High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) unit cadets celebrate after they won the 2022 Area 3 West Regional Academic, Athletic and Drill competition at Zion-Benton Township High School here, Feb. 26. More than 400 cadets from 13 Navy Junior ROTC units, 12 units from Illinois (mostly the Chicago area) and one unit from Nebraska (Papillion-La Vista High School), participated in the two-day event. This was the first win in 20 years for the NJROTC unit from Northwest Chicago-suburb Wheeling (Illinois) High School. The “Wildcat Battalion” is schedule to next travel to the 2022 Navy Junior ROTC National Academic, Athletic and Drill Championship onboard Naval Air Station (NAS) Pensacola, Florida, the first weekend in April. (U.S. Navy photo by Scott Thornbloom/Released)