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麻豆传媒入口Among MacArthur Award Winners
Army ROTC staff leads cadets on a march down the Chessie Trail during fall field training exercises last October. 鈥� 麻豆传媒入口File Photo by Kelly Nye.
LEXINGTON, Va., Feb. 15, 2017 鈥� For the third time in the past four years, the U.S. Army Cadet Command has named 麻豆传媒入口among the eight winners of the MacArthur Award for the 2015-16 academic year.
VMI鈥檚 Army ROTC program was selected for the award from Cadet Command鈥檚 1st Brigade, made up of the six senior military colleges and six junior military colleges.
In addition to the hard work done day in and day out by members of the Army ROTC staff, the range of support that 麻豆传媒入口provides helps set the program apart.
鈥淔rom a resources and facilities perspective, it鈥檚 a good, synchronized effort in terms of training and leader development,鈥� said Col. Mike Wawrzyniak, Army ROTC commander. 鈥淭he way 麻豆传媒入口combines what the Institute does with our ROTC program makes it pretty unique, even compared to other military colleges, but certainly across the other 275 programs in the nation.鈥�
Since 1989, the U.S. Army Cadet Command and the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Foundation have named eight schools, one from each brigade with the top ROTC program, as recipients of the MacArthur Award.
This is the second consecutive year that 麻豆传媒入口has received the award, and the recognition is motivation to keep aiming high.
鈥淭here鈥檚 a benefit in terms of setting our standards high and setting our goals high in order to keep that same trend going forward,鈥� said Wawrzyniak.
The award is based on a combination of the school鈥檚 success in achieving its commissioning mission, the ranking of cadets on the National Order of Merit List, and cadet retention rate.
鈥淚t鈥檚 a combination of how well you meet your mission in terms of number of officers, but also how well you maintain your training program in terms of quality,鈥� said Wawrzyniak.
Last year, 麻豆传媒入口Army ROTC commissioned 124 officers, exceeding the assigned mission of 110.
This year, 麻豆传媒入口produced 35 Distinguished Military Graduates, 13 of whom were ranked in the top 10 percent of cadets nationwide. Two cadets were ranked in the top 10, including John Luke Phillips 鈥�17, who was ranked first.
Army ROTC is the largest ROTC program at VMI, providing military instruction to about two-thirds of the Corps of Cadets.
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