JROTC cadet saves a life and receives an award

Service High School Navy JROTC cadet, Seaman Apprentice Taylor Engstrom intervened and by doing so almost certainly prevented a death of one of his classmates. His teacher decided Engstrom should be honored for showing courage. Watch the video to see the full story on how this young man has affected so many lives.

[haroldgilbert]

The kid that was talking about killing himself probably feels even more like shit right now actually.

[XtraTrip]

this hits pretty hard for me i’m in rotc and a fellow cadet took his own life almost a month ago

[themooseisloose]

This is horrendous. The bearings on some of the cadets were just awful. I've seen freshmen who are not on the drill team have better bearings than these cadets. I also saw one cadet were her Class A instead of Class B. Loss of uniformity.

[xxtherealpicklexx]

I know that in Air Force JROTC, there’s a difference between the gold valor award and the silver valor award, where silver is that you save a life at no expense of your own, while gold is awarded to one who saves a life risking their own in the process

[timothylavin]

I cringed when there commander called the cadets by the first name and how horribly executed the bearing was and when they where not yelling with confidence when they where getting inspected

[mysteamgameplay]

i was a cadet for 4 years, left as a Sargent, through those 4 years i had 3 friends that wanted to take there lives but i talked to them every single day till 12 or 4 in the morning, making sure they were fine, congrats on this kid for getting that medal, i know how it feels to be able to know someone is still on this earth cause of you, it's a great feeling with or without earning something from it

[charlesdanao]

Good job to that cadet. Im a cadet from A13, Hawaii and I gotta say, thats a big award he was given and he did something great. However, in no way of disrespect but their unit doesn't look too sharp.

[ThatNinjaAirsofter]

It's a great thing he did, but they seem way too timid. They need to be yelled at more.

[gamermemetv]

No military bearing and no confidence in how he talks.

[tnmapls]

Nice video but everything about how they marched and conducted themselves was terrible...

[grapefruit]

I'm in the Civil Air Patrol and I think that they should be learning how to stand at attention. Their eyes were going all around the place and they were making movements with their mouths lol.

[TurkyNavySpace]

3:32 omg after getting an award this happens 😂😂😂

[nise]

THAT CLICKING NOISE TRUGGERED NE MORE THAN THEIR DRILL

[alexrandall]

We need more people like him in this world.

[Gosh_Josh]

1:05, SOUND OFF YOU FOOL, I GET YELLED AT IF I DON'T YELL

[jamisonlewis]

This makes me very proud to be a 3rd year cadet in AFJROTC

[harrisonwhitebread]

it’s great how this video is about how a student is being acknowledged for possible saving someone’s life and people are worried about criticizing bearing. Focus on the important matters at hand for a second

[mperson]

Then there's me that just notices the anime on the wall and say "Oh hey it's anime."

[ScreenPeak]

im in the army cadets in ontario and i was given the CO coin for stopping a cadet from self harm at CTC Blackdown

[nunyabiznez]

I started high school during the Vietnam War era. The year the war ended was also the year the first class attended our newly built high school. That year they shut down the ROTC program in our high school and recruiting was banned from our high school. The superintendent's son had been killed the previous year by friendly fire and he was not happy with the military from that point on. There has not been an ROTC program there since.

I remember the year prior to my graduation there were two M.P. searching school grounds for an AWOL soldier and the principle called the police who escorted them off school grounds and to the town line and informed them that all future military incursions into town land had to be arranged before hand with the police department. Back then there were a lot of jurisdictional disagreements. Military people just were not liked or welcomed in our town. They even banned recruitment in our town. I left that town the day I graduated and haven't been back since.