Galena Cadet Leadership

The Grizzly Battalion

Galena High School

"The Grizzly Battalion"

SY 2025-2026

Enrollment: 152                                                        Established: 1992

33rd Battalion Commander: C/Lieutenant Colonel Tayla McDonagh

Battalion Sergeant Major: C/Command Sergeant Major Justin Anders    

The Galena High School Grizzly Battalion is currently proud to report a current enrollment of 152 highly motivated Cadets. This represents a decrease of 24 cadets from the previous school year.  Galena High School is open to variance and has allowed all that have applied to attend. The Washoe County School District is experiencing a lower-than-normal freshman enrollment. The Grizzly Battalion continues to have strong recruiting effort using student engagement, to continue to grow our strong program.

The Grizzly Battalion has established three primary goals for the upcoming 2025-2026 school year.

1.    Maintain a 100% Graduation rate: We aim to sustain our 100% graduation rate for our 17 senior Cadets.

2.    Achieve an 80% pass rate: We strive to ensure that at least 80% of our 28 MS-3 Cadets pass the Military Science CTE Certification exam.

3.    Increase Retention Rates: Our goal is to enhance the average retention rates across all Military Science levels by 2% each year over the next four years, or until we achieve a sustained retention rate of at least 70% at all levels. 

Planned Activities and Initiatives:

To make the 2025-2026 school year memorable, the Galena Grizzly Battalion has planned several engaging activities:

1.    Field trips: We will organize field trips to historical locations within Nevada.

2.    Competitions: The Battalion will compete at the Raider Nationals in October 2025 for the third straight year and continue to dominate in our Drones and Vex Robotic programs, with plans for a return trip to Nationals and Worlds.

3.    Service-Learning Projects: We will collaborate with Marce Herz Middle School to mentor 6^th, 7^th and 8^th graders during their assemblies and provide demonstrations featuring the JROTC Color Guard and Drill    Team.  Additionally, we propose a service-learning project is to work with a dog shelter and veterans group homes.

4.   Annual Gala:  We are excited to announce our “Annual Gala” scheduled for November 01, 2025.

The Galena Grizzly Battalion is committed to fostering leadership, community engagement, and academic excellence among our Cadets.  We look forward to a successful and impactful school year.

  We know being a Grizzly is great!  Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!  Go Grizzlies!!!!!!!!!!!!!