Guard-Friendly High School Application

Guard Friendly Seal
The PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School designation and logo are designed to showcase and promote the High Schools using a range of best practices for the recruitment and promotion of members and veterans of the Pennsylvania National Guard and their families.
By submitting this application on behalf of your high school, you acknowledge the following information:
We agree to submit additional information as requested by PNGAS. All information must be timely received to complete review.
Recognition as a PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School is only for the academic year that a nomination is submitted
Once designated PNGAS Guard-Friendly, your high school agrees to sign an annual letter to renew your high school's commitment to maintain its PNGAS Guard-Friendly designation
PNGAS reserves the right to make reasonable changes to this process and designation with fair notice to participants
PNGAS reserves the right and ability to remove your high school's PNGAS Guard-Friendly designation, with or without cause or notice.
By submitting this application, and once designated a PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School, the high school and its administration agree the High School can be listed as a PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School in all PNGAS publications, social media, website, and marketing
All PNGAS decisions regarding PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School status and designation are final.
To the best of your knowledge, the submission and its contents are true and correct
Unauthorized use of the PNGAS name or logo, as well as the PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School designation, phrase or logo for, “PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School” is strictly prohibited. You understand any unauthorized or inappropriate use of the designation, phrase or logo can and will result in the immediate termination of your PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School status
This is not an endorsement. Your high school cannot communicate that you are endorsed by the National Guard, Pennsylvania National Guard, US military or PNGAS.
By using the designation or logo for “PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School,” your high school agrees it will never communicate or insinuate; internally or externally; any relationship, partnership, endorsement, association or any other relationship with the Pennsylvania National Guard, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the federal government, US military or Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs
In all communications, internal and external, the designation must always be written out in its entirety and completely, “PNGAS Guard-Friendly High School”
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Is the Pennsylvania National Guard welcome in your high school?
Is the Pennsylvania National Guard allowed to recruit inside your high school?
Does your high school make announcements and/or permit signs and marketing materials in advance, and on the day of a recruiting visit by recruiters of the Pennsylvania National Guard?
Does your school make an announcement over the loud speaker, through a social media post or other means, when a student from the school enlists in the Pennsylvania National Guard or the US military?
Does your school allow National Guard recruiters to make and have appointments with students inside the high school or through virtual appointments?
Does your high school invite National Guard recruiters to speak to students, classrooms, group-settings, assemblies or open forums?
Does your high school provide a room, space or virtual meeting room for National Guard recruiters to meet with students?
Does your high school invite National Guard recruiters to meet with administrators, counselors and/or faculty during planning-days, in-service days, or any other days to provide updates on the National Guard, its $64,000 tuition benefits for each member of the Guard, as well as GI Bill and other benefits?
Does your high school actively inform recruiters of the National Guard of events, activities and programs they can attend and participate in, such as: sporting events, musicals, plays, concerts or other school activities?
Does your high school promote or share information on the $64,000 in tuition benefits and other benefits if a student joins the Pennsylvania National Guard?
Does your high school provide National Guard recruiters with parking passes when they visit your high school?
Does your high school permit JROTC, Civil Air Patrol, Young Marines, US Navy Sea Cadets Corp Hawk Mountain Ranger School, STARBASE or similar programs to meet with students?
Does your high school permit the promotion, marketing and outreach of one or all of the following: JROTC, Civil Air Patrol, Young Marines, US Navy Sea Cadets Corp, Hawk Mountain Ranger School, STARBASE?
Does your high school return phone calls and emails from National Guard recruiters?
Does one of your high school graduates enlist in the Pennsylvania National Guard every year?
Does your high school invite back former students that are/were members of the National Guard or military to speak to students about careers and service in the National Guard and/or US military?
Does your high school permit students to enlist early and attend basic training the summer before their senior year of high school?
Does your high school post its job opportunities and job postings on the PNGAS Job Board?
Does your high school hire members, veterans, or spouses of the Pennsylvania National Guard?