Thomas Jefferson Division Sea Cadets

06/06/2026

📦 Supply & Logistics Training

Ready to get behind the scenes and learn how missions are supported?

Join us for a hands-on Supply & Logistics Training. Learn inventory management, supply operations, resource accountability, and teamwork while gaining skills that will help you succeed in your unit and beyond.

📅 July 19–26, 2026
📍 Jefferson City, MO

05/23/2026

05/18/2026

TO THE NAVAL SEA CADET COMMUNITY-

CADET TRAINING OPPORTUNITY AVAILABLE!

This is from our Commanding Officer, LCDR Hall, in Missouri.

This message is for the Cadets, Staff Cadets, and Staff Officers that participated in the Winter Supply & Logistics Training in TN—as well as their Commanding Officers. It’s also for those who wanted to attend in Dec-Jan but their plans changed. In addition, it’s going out to those senior Cadets who are thinking about being on staff with us this summer, and the Commanding Officers of our surrounding units.

The Supply & Logistics Winter Training in TN proved valuable to many Cadets, and we’re re-creating that opportunity in Jefferson City, MO this summer. We will be making Supply & Logistics fun yet again! Please help us make the benefits of this training known.

Are you squared away, organized, and detail-oriented? Do you enjoy hands-on training, and love a challenge? Do you thrive when you’re up against a deadline? Are you interested in problem-solving and learning why logistics is so important historically? Do you know the different levels and classes of supply?

Were you planning on taking this training in Dec-Jan but were unable to fit it into your winter schedule? If any of these things describe you, come join the Thomas Jefferson Division for summer training in late July (Training Codes NX-MO-2601 and NX-L-MO-2601). Or share this information with any Shipmates who might enjoy it. This course is designed for both Sea Cadets (age 14-18) and League Cadets (age 10-13).

Come learn the concepts of, and differences between, logistics and supply—and why logistics is so important in both military and civilian applications. Gain insight into supply processes: receiving, inventory, data input, issuing, and accountability. You’ll experience a great mix of classroom learning and practical, hands-on application. Your squad will receive a mission with a desired end-state that takes teamwork, drive, and focus to accomplish. There will be camaraderie, along with pride in a job well done. Be a part of inventorying and organizing a functioning unit’s training supplies, uniforms, gear lockers, and storage units. Help enhance supply operations and efficiency, improving unit readiness, and managing limited resources. Use QR codes, take pictures, and write descriptions of items going into storage bins. Follow a color-coding system to apply Smart Labels. Take your new knowledge back to your home unit, and make an impact!

Our Training Staff is eager to broaden your contributions by delivering practical knowledge!

For details, you can reach us at [email protected]

Send a message to learn more

05/07/2026

When you have a personal dream and the determination to go after it, you will find a way. Be unstoppable! Know your “why” and focus on it.
You don’t need approval or an audience to do hard things. You may want to follow in someone’s footsteps, or maybe there’s someone that inspires you to do what you’re not sure you can. Strive to become the absolute best version of yourself.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

She weighs 106 pounds and dragged 220 pounds of supplies across 704 miles of Antarctica—alone—at twenty-one years old.
January 13, 2025. The geographic South Pole. A twenty-one-year-old Norwegian woman stands at the bottom of the world after fifty-four days of complete isolation, having just pulverized an age record that stood unchallenged.
Karen Kyllesø weighs 106 pounds. She's exactly five feet tall.
The sled she dragged behind her for 704 miles across Antarctica's frozen wasteland? 220 pounds at departure. More than twice what she weighs.
Let that sink in. Picture yourself hauling double your body weight through temperatures that regularly hit forty below zero. Alone. For nearly eight weeks. Skiing ten hours daily across ice formations that jut up like frozen daggers. Through blizzards so thick you can't see your own gloved hands.
She didn't just break the record for youngest person to reach the South Pole solo and unsupported. She obliterated it by almost six full years, dethroning the previous record holder who was twenty-six when he completed his trek just one year earlier.
But here's what makes this genuinely remarkable beyond the numbers.
Karen developed cold-induced asthma partway through the expedition. A respiratory condition she'd never had before, triggered by breathing Antarctic air so frigid it burns your lungs. She carried medication and kept skiing anyway. Seven to ten brutal hours every single day.
This wasn't spontaneous adventure. At fifteen, she became the youngest woman to ski across Greenland's ice sheet. Before her skis had even been put away, she was already asking her mentor about Antarctica.
Then came years of methodical preparation. Working shifts on Norwegian fish farms to fund the dream. Winter training in extreme cold. Summer endurance work pulling tires for miles. Fall strength training in the Alps.
The hardest part? Gaining weight. She deliberately added ten percent to her frame, building muscle specifically to handle a load that would crush most people twice her size.
On November 21, 2024, she started from Hercules Inlet. No resupply drops. No food caches waiting along the route. No outside guidance. Just Karen, her equipment, and 704 miles of white nothingness.
For fifty-four days she existed in what she called "a bubble." Cut off from everything except her thoughts, her willpower, and the endless frozen horizon that barely changes. Every morning meant waking in a frozen tent, melting snow, eating high-calorie fuel, packing with precision, then skiing against constant resistance until exhaustion demanded she stop.
When she crossed the finish line under clear Antarctic skies, Norway's Prime Minister praised her as following in the footsteps of Roald Amundsen. The legendary Liv Arnesen, first woman to ski solo to the South Pole thirty-one years prior, personally called to congratulate her.
Karen's words after finishing cut straight to the truth: "It doesn't matter how tall you are or how physically imposing you look. Through considered preparation, mental strength, and unwavering focus, you can achieve things that seem extraordinary."
Five feet tall. 106 pounds. The youngest solo polar explorer in human history.
Proof that extraordinary has nothing to do with size.

05/07/2026

From our executive officer:
"I have been involved with the Naval Sea Cadets for almost 8 years. This past weekend was the annual 3-day Field Exercise Training and I camped outside along with everyone else in the high 30's Friday night, 40 degrees Saturday night. I have to remind myself frequently that I can do hard things and I can push myself outside of my comfort zone because these cadets and families are worth it. This program is worth it. My goal is to do more and do better and be better for my family, my friends, and these cadets."

Please join us! This program is definitely worth it!!
For more information, please contact LCDR Regina Hall: 573-619-5064.

04/25/2026

Coming up 1-3 May: Thomas Jefferson Division’s Annual Field Training Exercise (FTX).

This is our Cadets’ favorite drill of the year! Tent camping on a Forward Operating Base (FOB), a ruck march, cover & concealment, tactical combat casualty care (TCCC), military radio procedures, room clearing, patrolling, high crawls, face camouflage, low crawls, fireman’s carry, Japanese spider holes, squad movement techniques, Entry Control Point (ECP) procedures, Quick Reaction Force (QRF), detecting Improvised Explosive Devices (IED), dining on Meals Ready to Eat (MREs) and S’Mores, React to Contact, and executing Morning & Evening Colors.

This Field Operations event strengthens teamwork, provides instruction on interesting topics, helps improve physical fitness and cadet resilience, and challenges Cadet leadership capabilities.

We are developing leaders of character who embrace difficulties, power through challenges, communicate effectively, use their chain of command, and are punctual and disciplined. They bear up under responsibility and exemplify respect for one’s self and for others.

04/06/2026

Find your people. Earn your place. 🤝

03/23/2026

Our Sea Cadets were glad to help with the American Legion Friday Dinner again last week 🇺🇸🍽️
We’re thankful for the opportunity to serve our community and support those who have served our country. Always a meaningful (and enjoyable!) evening for our cadets 😊

02/24/2026

Since 2013, the Thomas Jefferson Division has presented the Squared Away Award at the end of each 32-hour monthly drill, to the outstanding cadet of the weekend. Though not an official award, to those in the unit it is a great honor to be selected, and the cadets work hard for it.

Since 2013, the Thomas Jefferson Division has presented the Squared Away Award at the end of each 32-hour monthly drill, to the weekend’s most noteworthy cadet. Though not an official award, to those in the unit it is a great honor to be selected, and the cadets work hard for it.

In February 2026, it went to Seaman Recruit Devontae Troy, from Jefferson City, MO. Cadet Troy exhibited a combination of hard work, an upbeat attitude, teamwork, military bearing, and professionalism.

The carved oak award is perfectly square, and features emblems of the Naval League Cadets (age 10-13), and the Naval Sea Cadets (age 14-18). In the center is a raised square knot (one of the most commonly-used USN knots), against a battleship-gray background. Above the knot is a velcro strip for affixing the nametag of the recipient. Below the knot is a Midshipman (age 18-21) anchor representing commitment to training, leadership development, and the traditions of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard.

🇺🇸⚓️🇺🇸 Congratulations, Cadet Troy!! 🇺🇸⚓️🇺🇸

02/03/2026

Confidence isn’t about not being afraid; it’s about taking the step anyway.