Cadet Candice Madriaga (right) gives her squad some information about the mission for the exercise.
The four squadrons comprised of Eastern Washington University ROTC cadets arrived at the mock village. Some cadets secured the perimeter while others engaged the village's elder to gather information and gave food to the villagers.
Then gunfire from the South Atropia People's Army - also known as SAPA - rained down on the village. Cadets, along with the village's police force, engaged SAPA. Both sides used real weapons but blank ammunition.
This was one of two scenarios in the ROTC program's leadership development exercise, May 13-14 at Riverside State Park.
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