Heidi Segars and Ericka Rovira
The rotor noise above roared louder as the helicopter touched down at the landing zone. US Military Academy cadets piled out, ready to perform exercises in the field as part of their summer Cadet Leadership Development Training. Organized in their tactical formation, the cadets gazed up one by one and locked eyes with their new teammate. “All of the sudden it’s like, hey, we have Spot,” one of them noted. “I don’t know what to do with this asset.”
Exercises like these are an integral part of cadet military training and necessitate substantial interpersonal trust and strong cohesion among the team as a whole to be successful. Overall, the 357 participating cadets (97 percent between nineteen and twenty-one years old and 73 percent male) reported extremely high levels of trust in their fellow cadet teammates and high team cohesion.
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