Senior Master Sargent Garrett Martin is one of three AFJROTC instructors at VHS and has been instructing at Veterans since 2017. SMSgt Martin served honorably in the USAF for over 20 years and retired from Robins Air Force base in 2017.  He holds a B.S.B.A. from Wayland Baptist University. He has two children and is married to his wife, who serves in the USAF.

AFJROTC: Mission: Developing Citizens of Character Goals: Instill values of citizenship, service to the United States, personal responsibility, and sense of accomplishment. Personnel and Resources: The Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps staff includes 76 Headquarters positions and nearly 1,600 retired Air Force officer and enlisted military instructors. Congress has mandated 870 Air Force Junior ROTC units, and there are approximately 85,000 cadets enrolled in high schools across the United States and selected Department of Defense Dependent Schools (DoDDS) in Europe, the Pacific, and Guam. Organization: AFJROTC provides citizenship training and an aerospace science program for high school students. Secondary school students who enroll in the AFJROTC program are offered a wide variety of curricular and co-curricular activities. The program explores the historic and scientific aspects of aerospace technology and teaches high school students self-reliance, self-discipline, and other leadership characteristics. Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM) concepts are also an important part of this world class program. The AFJROTC program is open to 9th-12th grade students who are citizens of the United States. By Title 10 USC, the program is a citizenship program and not chartered as a recruiting program for the military services and those students who participate in AFJROTC do not incur any obligation to the Air Force. AFJROTC objectives are to educate and train high school cadets in citizenship and life skills; promote community service; instill a sense responsibility, develop character, leadership, and self-discipline through education and instruction in air and space fundamentals and the Air Force’s core values of Integrity First, Service Before Self, and Excellence In All We Do.