Stanhope Elmore JROTC cadet selected for state office

Submitted / TPI Stanhope Elmore High School junior Maria Escobar has been selected as the vice president of the Army for the State of Alabama JROTC student cadets. She is the first student from Stanhope Elmore to be selected for a statewide JROTC office.

Stanhope Elmore High School junior Maria Escobar is used to being in charge.

As the executive officer and cadet major of the school’s JROTC program, she is second in command of the student ranks with about 158 student cadets under her. Now Escobar is also a state vice president, the third person in state student command of an organization with nearly 16,000 student cadets. She is the first from Stanhope Elmore to ever be selected for a state JROTC office.