An all-conference athlete in high school in five sports, Shaina Cales is now a standout at Xavier University’s ROTC program. She lost her fiancee, a fellow student, to a roadside bomb in Iraq back in July. Since then, she has been named a leader at her university’s program and is ranked 6th among more than 6,000 ROTC graduates this year.
“Mike started asking me why I worked so hard in ROTC, why I cared about grades. When I said I wanted a good job, he asked me why I wanted a good job,” she recalls.
“He asked questions for 10 minutes, and then he said, ‘Shaina, I’m trying to get you to say because it makes you happy. That’s the big picture.’”
Cales, a standout athlete at Ripley High School who earned All-Conference status in five sports in a single academic year, says she fell in love with ROTC from the start.
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