Sgt Major McLean / CFI

Today, as I watched my oldest daughter go through CFI (Command Formal Inspection) I realized how little time I have left to spend with her.  It seems like just yesterday, she was a freshman entering the JROTC. Now she is finishing  up her Junior year with rank of Sgt. Major and also Commander of the Lady Rifles Drill Team and a promising future for her Senior year. 


Next week is the JROTC awards night and she will find out what awards she will be getting for her work in JROTC and what position she will hold in her LET 4 (Senior) year.  She loves this stuff and wants to join the military and make it her career.  In one year, she will be going off to college or directly into the military.  Probably the US Air Force because she wants to be a Meteorologist and she feels this will be her best avenue to pursue that career.  


I am so proud of her and how JROTC has changed her the past three years.  She has gained so much more confidence and has become a much better leader through this training.

Proverbs 22:6 (NASB) tells us: Train up a child in the way he should go, when he is old, he will not depart from it.  I can only hope that she will continue to grow as a young Christian woman as this new world beckons her.  I still have one more year to train her up but she is becoming her own woman regardless of what I am doing at this time.  I am betting that the next few years will involve more tears and prayers than the last few years, but the way she was raised and the leadership skills she is learning through JROTC, I am sure will allow her to be a woman that her father and I will be proud to call our daughter.  


I Love you Gracie and will ALWAYS pray for your future!!