Profile by Summer Cilne
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This week's Staff Spotlight is Chief Adam Fagan. This is Chief Fagan’s first year teaching at Ohio County High School; he originally came from Owensboro, KY, but now commutes from Greenville to Ohio County to teach Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC).  He attended the University of Charleston in West Virginia and started teaching in 2008. He came to OCHS because someone had reached out to him about an opening with the JROTC program. He teaches hand-to-hand combat and close-quarters marksmanship for the KY Army National Guard, and he also taught at a warrant officer candidate school where he taught in the department of Leadership and Professionalism. He has served in the Army for 23 years, and he doesn’t plan to retire. Not only did he teach in the Army, but he also has done a lot of other very important things, such as guarding; he was originally a 63 Bravo, which is a wheel mechanic.

Chief Fagan wants to teach his students the value of LDRSHIP, which the Army uses as an acronym for Loyalty, Duty, Respect, Selfless Service, Honor, Integrity, and Personal Courage. He shared that duty and selfless service mean the most to him because you need to fulfill your obligations to the military and put others' needs above your own. When asked what made him want to teach JROTC, he told us that when he was in High School at Apollo, he had actually taken JROTC, and the guidance that he was given has shaped him into who he is today. He wanted to give back to the Army by teaching what he has learned to the new generations. He stated, “If it wasn't for the leadership and guidance I was given at a young age, I don’t think I would have been as successful as I have been so far.”

Before wrapping up the interview, we asked Chief Fagan if he had anything else to share. He shared that all people should hold responsibility over their own actions: “You hear the cadets use their environment as an excuse, but you are in control of where you are going.” Chief Fagan has brought a lot to our Army, and now he is bringing more to our school. We are very lucky to have him at our school, and we thank him for giving us time out of his day so we could get to know a little more about our new JROTC Chief.