Built For JROTC Competitions

a. Narrative How JROTC CCC started

The idea for JROTC CCC started with a leap of faith by a 16-year-old sacrificing his car.

In March 2025, our church, Valley Creek, announced it was taking its next step and wanted to grow the church in several ways. The pastor invited the congregation to help by making a two-year pledge toward that growth.

At the time, I had spent the previous year working hard to get to a place where I could buy my 16-year-old son, Nathan, his dream car: a 2016 Mustang in Ruby Red. It took a while, but we found the car and were about two weeks out from buying it. When the pastor made the announcement, the only extra money in my budget was the money for Nathan's car.

After we talked and prayed about it, Nathan decided God was asking him to give up the car. I have to admit this was very hard for me as a dad, because I really wanted to bless my son with that car. When commitment weekend came, I had Nathan take our commitment card to the front. It was his car, and he was the one putting it in God's hands.

Three weeks later, God gave me the idea for JROTC CCC.

By then I had been part of JROTC for six years. My daughter also went through the Flower Mound Air Force JROTC program and graduated the year before. I've spent 30 years in IT doing process improvement & automation, and despite all the frustrations I had seen over those six years, it had never occurred to me to build a better system for competitions.

And the frustrations were the same at every competition: hours-long delays waiting for results, lost or incomplete score sheets, last-minute corrections, and instructors buried in spreadsheets and paperwork trying to calculate final standings by hand. And no transparency: when the results were finally announced, schools had no way to see how the scores were tallied or why they placed where they did.

What should have been the most rewarding moment of the day, recognizing cadet performance, often turned into confusion, frustration, and unnecessary stress.

Behind the scenes, instructors were juggling paper scorecards, text messages, emails, and spreadsheets, all while trying to manage judges, schedules, and competing schools.

There had to be a better way.

After speaking with instructors across Texas and beyond, it became clear this wasn't a local issue. Every competition faced the same inefficiencies.

JROTC CCC was built to change that: designed specifically for cadet competitions and shaped directly by instructor feedback.

Our goal is simple: run competitions faster, more accurately, and more professionally, so instructors can focus on cadets, not paperwork.

Car update: 14 months later, God provided my son his dream car! We found it in South Carolina and were able to fly out there and drive it back together. It was an amazing experience that we would not have had if we had not trusted God.

b. Mission & Values What guides JROTC CCC

We're committed to empowering instructors with tools that let them focus on what matters most: developing the next generation of leaders. That includes a free public competition directory, so any JROTC program can find or list a competition whether or not it runs on our platform.

1. Military Excellence. Built by instructors who understand the structure, discipline, and accountability required on competition day.
2. Purpose-Driven. Every feature exists to reduce instructor workload and improve competition-day execution, not to add complexity.
3. Community Focused. Instructor & judge feedback directly shapes how the platform evolves.
4. Excellence in Service. Reliable support before, during, and after competitions, when mistakes aren't an option.

c. Command Roster Experienced JROTC instructors and technology professionals

Ready to run competitions with confidence? See how JROTC CCC supports instructors before, during, and after competition day.