DRILL TEAM

Teams compete in competitions in basic drill and ceremony.  Teams practice during and after school for these meets.  Categories at the drill meets include Unarmed Platoon (3 squads of 4 people and a commander), Unarmed Squad (6 cadets in a line and a commander), Unarmed Individual, Armed Platoon (with rifles), Armed Squad (with rifles), Armed Individual, and Color Guard (Two flag bearers in the middle and two rifle bearers on either side of the flags.  There is also a game called knock out where everyone makes one formation and basic drill commands are called and when you mess up, you are out.

Most formations are a 3X3 with a commander, for both armed and unarmed.  There is a regulation, and exhibition.  The regulation is done by a list of commands that must be done sequentially and by FM 22-5.  The exhibition, however you can do quite a few things, such as tossing the weapons or use your own made up commands.  The Armed is divided into two categories, de-militarized weapons or facsimile weapons.  They do this so the inspection section will be fair, and there is an armed individual drill, where you twirl the weapon

COLOR GUARD

Competitive Color Guard is pretty simple.  They are divided to male, female, or co-ed.  The meet coordinator gives you a list of commands that you are to memorize and to perform in sequential order.  The meet might either have a large square as a boundary.  They also have an inspection section, where they inspect uniform, flags, flag cover, and basic cadet knowledge and color guard knowledge

RIFLE TEAM

There are both practices and competitions.  In each, 6 shooters take their positions in 6 lanes.  We shoot pellets in .177 caliber air rifles at a distance of 10 meters.  The rifles have dual peep sights for aiming. The target shot at is the National Rifle Association, 10 meter, Air Rifle Target.  It is made by the American Target Co. of Denver, Colorado.  There are 10 rings of 10 points each, and 2 "sighter" rings of 10 points.  The sighters are strictly used for checking your sights and practice.  They do not count in the final tally. Each shooter lays down in the prone position.  When the order is given to lock and load, the shooters place a pellet in the receiver and pump the rifle.  When the first shot is fired, the clock begins.  The shooters now have 45 minutes to complete the match.  Each shooter now is on his or her own.  A recommended 3 shots are fired at the sighters, although it really doesn't matter.  When the shooter is confident that he is ready, he can now move on to the actual rings.  After he has shot at all target rings, he moves to the standing position.  The same procedure is repeated, and the shooter now moves to the kneeling position.  The 3 positions of 3 targets account for a total of 300 points.  If the shooter is not done at the end of 45 minutes, oh well, the rest of his shots are voided.  It counts as if he shot a zero for each of the blank rings.  Now comes the scoring.  In practice, each shooter scores their own sheets.  In competition matches, the commanders from each team grade the sheets.  Team A grades Team B's papers, and visa-versa.  Oh, and in competition matches, 3 of Team A's members shoot along-side 3 of team B's members.  Then the shooters switch after everyone is done in the first shooting order.  The teams also can compete in national post-matches.  They shoot and mail off for scoring by a third-party.  These are national, not just district, competitions.