Unit History

 

Mundy’s Mills High School’s Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFJROTC) was first opened on January 5, 2011, identified as GA-20052. GA stand for the state in which the unit was created. 2005 is the year in which our unit was founded. The number 2 represents that it is the second unit that opened in the state of Georgia in 2005. Lieutenant Colonel Raymond King, Chief Master Sergeant Witcher, and Senior Master Sergeant Carter were the first AFJROTC Instructors. Mundy’s Mills’ AFJROTC program was established as Cadet Group and was called the “Fighting Tigers”. The unit jodie was “Motivational Chant! Hoo Ray, Motivational Chant! Hoo Ray
Moooooooooooooootivational Chant! Hoo Ray”. 

MSgt Ronald DeSears, Chief Master Sergeant Robert Walker, Senior Master Sergeant Keaton, Master Sergeant First Gipson, Master Sergeant Astudillo, Master Sergeant Bloom, Chief Master Sergeant Alexander, and Master Sergeant Stacie Duck has served the Mundy’s Mills community as AFJROTC Instructors.  Our unit will continue to AIM HIGH under the leadership of Senior Master Sergeant Torrance McGee as the “Flying Tigers” named after the Flying Tiger Airmen that flew the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk during World War II fighting the Japanese in China under the leadership of Army Captain Claire L. Chennault. Under his leadership, he formed and trained a small group of former Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps pilots known as the American Volunteer Group (AVG), popularly known as the Flying Tigers of the 23rd Fighter Group, part of the 14th Air Force. The tiger of the “Flying Tigers” symbolizes and refers to something great and powerful. Adding wings to a tiger means taking something that is already great and powerful and making it even more so.  Unit GA-20052 will

“HONOR THE PAST-EXCELL IN THE PRESENT-BE READY FOR THE FUTURE”.

WHY WE ARE THE FLYING TIGER!