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7 unusual facts about Reserve Officers' Training Corps


Antonia Martínez

A year after her death, University of Puerto Rico Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadet Jacinto Gutierrez was killed while defending the Reserve Oifficers' Training Corps building at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras.

Exhibition drill

Colleges with Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) units, as well as Military academies have drill teams normally train and compete in two types of drill events; Regulation/Close Order and Exhibition (Trick or Fancy) Drill.

Foster Friess

As a student, he served as president of Chi Phi Fraternity, enrolled in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and was named one of the "ten most outstanding senior men".

History of Texas Tech University

Military training was conducted at the college as early as 1925, but formal Reserve Officers' Training Corps training did not commence until 1936.

Illinois State University College of Applied Science and Technology

Through classes and field training, the Army ROTC program provides students with the tools to become an Army Officer while pursuing a college degree.

Jack H. Healy

While at MIT, Healy joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) where he graduated as a second Lieutenant.

Lee E. Emerson

He graduated from Barton Academy in 1917, and served in the United States Army during World War I as a member of the Students' Army Training Corps.


F A Meier

When he went to Rugby, the First World War had just started, and he was appointed training officer for the school OTC (Officers' Training Corps).

Francis Joseph Sherman

When World War I broke out in 1914, Sherman left his bank position, enrolling with the Officers' Training Corps at McGill University, and then enlisting as a private for reinforcements of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in 1915.

Harry L. Martin

He was a member of Sigma Alpha Fraternity and served two years in the Cavalry unit of the ROTC.

John Chowning Gresham

After he retired he was recalled to active duty to command the ROTC and SATC programs at the University of Denver as a member of the California National Guard until the programs were disbanded in 1918.

However, he was immediately assigned to active duty with the California National Guard in Los Angeles, and beginning in January 1918, he commanded the ROTC and SATC programs at the University of Denver, until they were disbanded in December 1918.

John F. Mulholland, Jr.

Mulholland was commissioned into active duty as a second lieutenant through the Reserve Officers' Training Corps in 1978 and was posted with the 193rd Infantry Brigade in the Panama Canal Zone.

Robert Pinn

The range, used by the university's ROTC component and NCAA rifle team, is one of the premier shooting facilities in the state of Ohio.

San Francisco general elections, November 2008

Proposition V would make it City policy to urge the San Francisco Board of Education to reverse its elimination of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC).

Staff sergeant

The rank of cadet staff sergeant (CSSG or C/SSgt) is used by many cadet organisations around the world, including the Army Cadet Force and the Army Section of the Combined Cadet Force in the United Kingdom and the Army, Marine Corps and Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps and the Civil Air Patrol in the United States.

Tiffany Montague

Montague grew up in the UK, travelling to the United States at age 16 to attend Smith College where she joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and Mensa.

Varsity Victory Volunteers

On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States announced that all Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) students were to report for military duty, forming the Hawaiian Territorial Guard, or HTG.


see also

Arkansas National Guard and World War II

The National Defense Act of 1916 provided for an expanded army during peace and wartime, fourfold expansion of the National Guard, the creation of an Officers' and an Enlisted Reserve Corps, plus the creation of a Reserve Officers' Training Corps in colleges and universities.