The passage provides an overview of the Navy Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NJROTC) program, including its history and goals. It discusses how LT Edgar Stevens started teaching military values to high school students in 1911 in hopes of molding them into better citizens. Congress later established the JROTC program in 1916 to instill citizenship, service, responsibility, and a sense of accomplishment in students. Today there are over 620 NJROTC programs across the US, Japan, Italy, and Spain.