MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. — Three students from Georgia Military College’s 138th Corps of Cadets already have some pretty exciting plans for their summer break.

Cadets Jesse Hall, Patrick Lee and Haley Valentine were selected to travel to different parts of the world through an Army ROTC deployment program called CULP (Cultural Understanding and Language Proficiency).

The three were chosen as part of the United States Army Cadet Command, “to conduct overseas cultural deployments in support of worldwide Army Security Cooperation plans and the Army Culture and Foreign Language Strategy,” according to a press release from GMC.

“We’re mainly building relations between the U.S. and foreign nations with our cadets and their cadets,” said Hall. “We’re kind of representing America’s Army in a good way. It’s definitely going to be a good learning experience, spending time overseas and building relations with cultures that I’ve never been around.”

ROTC students from across the country apply and those that are distinguished get selected for a one-month summer mission. To be chosen, cadets must be contracted, medically qualified, and in good standing.

Valentine, who is originally from Platte City, Mo., said that CULP will give her and her colleagues a unique experience.

“It’s an opportunity to go ahead and see what an overseas mission would be like,” she said.

Hall and Lee both also hail from states other than Georgia, as Hall is a native of Maugansville, Md. and Lee is from Fishers, Ind.

The CULP program came highly recommended from the cadets’ regimental commander, who traveled to Latvia last year. Valentine will follow in her commander’s footsteps as she is also heading to Latvia this summer. Hall will travel to Madagascar, while Lee will make the trip to Indonesia.

“I was very excited,” Valentine said of her reaction when he heard the news that he had been selected. “To get the opportunity to see something I don’t get to see every day is very exciting to think about.”

“I was pretty excited, too, as well as anxious because I knew it was going to be a whole different experience to spend time in a country that I never thought I’d visit,” Hall said of his reaction.

None of the cadets knows exactly what their respective missions will be, but they will be in support of worldwide Army Security Cooperation objectives and include missions such as military to military training, cadet English language training teams, and humanitarian assistance.

Each cadet will leave out at different points during the summer, but each mission is slated for a month. They will participate in processing and training in Fort Knox, Ky. for a few days before deployment and return there for processing post deployment.