SISTER ACT: Burgess cadets lead by command and execution
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Sisters Charley (left) and Courtney Burgess, two of triplets, pose outside the NJROTC classroom at Benjamin Russell High School.

 Siri Hedreen / The Outlook

Courtney and Charley Burgess were born to the same mother at the same hour in the same month of the same year, but the two Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) are not twins. How can this be?

The answer is there's a third, blue-haired sister, Carley, who quit the ROTC program for shop class.