“I was in a rage,” the father said, when he was informed how his son was humiliated.
Last month, he said, his son, a senior student of Kagman High School, joined the JROTC training program.
At 9:20 p.m. on March 27, he said, he received a “very emotional call” from his 17-year-old son telling him that someone placed human waste on his sleeping mat inside his tent.
The father, who declined to be identified, said he went to the camp site to get first-hand information from the training officials.
He also called the Department of Public Safety.
“This kind of action is totally uncalled for and the person who did this should be expelled and be banned from the program,” he told JROTC officials.
He said JROTC is a military program and teaches leadership and discipline.
The father, a former U.S. servicemember, said he experienced “nothing as cruel as this” in his 11 years with the Army.
He later learned that the perpetrator is a cadet from Saipan Southern High School.
Variety was told that PSS and SSHS officials will meet to address the father’s complaint.
The father said the SSHS cadet already sent a letter of apology.
But he wants the cadet to make a public apology before the students of Kagman High School and Saipan Southern High School as well as to all the CNMI cadets.
