The United States Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) came into being with the passage of the National Defense Act of 1916. Under the provisions of the Act, high schools were authorized the loan of federal military equipment and the assignment of active-duty military personnel as instructors. In 1964, the Vitalization Act opened JROTC up to the other services and replaced most of the active duty instructors with retirees who worked for and were cost-shared by the schools.

Roosevelt High School’s JROTC program was established in August of 2010. We are now in our fourteenth year of existence.  The JROTC program here at Roosevelt is one of four JROTC Programs within the Nassau County Union Free School District. SAI is Command Sergeant Major Althea A. Robinson-Haddo and AI is Sergeant First Class Lennox Roberts. The JROTC Roughrider Battalion is committed to serving our Community.