Students lined up outside the cafeteria doors and the heavy afternoon sun was bearing down on their faces. Dark navy blue tables were set up, with uniformed men behind them informing students about the Navy flight simulator that was visiting the school. “I’m next!” someone screamed. The line kept growing, and people kept climbing in, to see what it was all about.

“I felt like I was really flying through the air,” sophomore C.J. Turner said.

The hydraulics on the machine broke some time throughout the day.

“It would have been better if the motion was actually working,” junior William Briggs said.

It was the first time the student body has experienced something like this.

“It’s kind of a big deal,” Brandon Coleman, U.S. Navy Recruiter said. “It doesn’t happen often.”

Assistant principal Jim Baker made all of the arrangements for the flight simulator.

“I was actually contacted by our Navy recruiter that comes out to our campus, and he asked if I was interested [in the simulator],” Baker said.

Baker was excited about in the opportunity for his students.

“We are very fortunate,” Baker said. “Their last stop was The Ballpark in Arlington. They go to very few schools.”

Since not very many schools get to experience this, Baker said he felt the students should take the opportunity.

The NJROTC cadets got another opportunity when Rear Admiral C. Kenneth Carodine came to talk to them about careers in the Navy, and the benefits of being an officer.

He also shared some news about one area of the Navy that had only been open to men.

“Women are going to deploy on submarines late this year, early next year,” Admiral Carodine said.