{"id":19245,"date":"2017-04-30T21:44:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T01:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=19245"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:48:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T15:48:20","slug":"2023-boot-camp-at-the-hackensack-middle-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iaintjustmusic.bobleafe.com\/?p=19245","title":{"rendered":"2023 – Boot Camp at the Hackensack Middle School?"},"content":{"rendered":"

…………………………………………<\/span>(ignore April 30, 2017 publish date – this was published on August 27, 2023)<\/p>\n

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Let me state right off the bat that I have no knowledge that this event is officially referred to as \u201cboot camp\u201d – that\u2019s my doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was in my kitchen making breakfast last week when I heard someone barking out orders outside in a loud, military fashion at 8am.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sound was coming from the direction of the Middle School, but school was not in session on August 21, so I looked out a south-facing window and saw adults wearing army green tops and khakis standing over on-their-backs teens who were doing leg lifts:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I took that shot at 8:05am.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The first words that popped into my head were \u201cboot camp\u201d. I think the next guess was \u201cjunior ROTC\u201d, but I really had no idea what it was.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cShoot first and ask questions later\u201d\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.and I should mention that I\u2019m almost 2 blocks away when I took these photos.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Time to get the heart pumping:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dress inspection (I hope not):<\/span><\/p>\n

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And they\u2019re off!<\/span><\/p>\n

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I think I see a familiar figure on the left in a white cap and holding a coffee cup. It\u2019s Hackensack\u2019s mayor, John Labrosse, so this must be an official City function:<\/span><\/p>\n

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These are obviously consecutive pictures, so I joined them:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nice to see that most of the prone youth are staying hydrated:<\/span><\/p>\n

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With apologies to the flag, it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve ever been mass-saluted!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thanks, guys!<\/span><\/p>\n

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And that ain\u2019t all! SIMULTANEOUSLY, their<\/em> photographer included me in this reverse image!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Thank you, sir!<\/span><\/p>\n

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At this point, everyone\u2019s in uniform\u2026\u2026\u2026..well, uniformly-dressed<\/em>, anyway. I\u2019m not gonna pretend I know everything they\u2019re doing at this point, so I\u2019m just gonna run the rest of the day\u2019s pictures – 14 of them – without captions:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rinse and repeat on Tuesday – no need to duplicate what I shot the day before (and I don\u2019t think they were there as long as on Monday). Here are 6 pix:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The law of diminishing returns repeats on Wednesday (they weren\u2019t there very long at all – 3 pix!):<\/span><\/p>\n

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Note: if the second pic shows down linemen, they\u2019re ALL offside!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finally, if you told me that they were there for only two minutes on Thursday, I wouldn\u2019t be able to disagree with you, so we finish with ONE picture!<\/span><\/p>\n

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I don\u2019t know if anything was scheduled for Friday at the Middle School, but it\u2019s a moot point because it rained.<\/span><\/p>\n

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At some point during the week, I contacted a few knowledgeable people in town and found out that this group was the Hackensack, NJ, Police Department Youth Academy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can find out more about their activities this past week here:<\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HackensackPoliceDepartment\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

They visited some interesting places during the week, with the Middle School probably being the least interesting of all of them, so check it out.<\/span><\/p>\n

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And NO – I did not find the words \u201cboot camp\u201d anywhere on the FB page.<\/span><\/p>\n

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