190611-N-IK959-0484 GREAT LAKES, Ill., (June 11, 2019) – Area 3 Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) cadets practice handling ship mooring lines on board the USS Marlinspike Seamanship Trainer at Recruit Training Command (RTC) on Naval Station Great Lakes, Illinois, June 11. More than 80 cadets and instructors attended the 2019 Annual NJROTC Leadership Academy. For more than twenty-five years NJROTC areas have hosted summer Leadership Academies across the country. NJROTC Leadership Academies were developed in order to prepare selected NJROTC cadets for leadership roles in their respective units by teaching certain leadership characteristics which aren’t necessarily available, nor, normally taught at the cadet's home unit. (U. S. Navy photo by Scott A. Thornbloom/Released)