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10/1/2004
Contact: K.E. Schwab -- 724-738-2199;
e-mail: karl.schwab@sru.edu
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SLIPPERY ROCK
UNIVERSITY ARMY ROTC PROGRAM ACHIEVES MISSION SUCCESS
AWARD
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery
Rock University’s award-winning Army Reserve Officer Training
Corps Program has been recognized again for successfully achieving
its academic year mission in 2003-04 in commissioning second
lieutenants for the U.S. Army, U.S. Army Reserves and the Army
National Guard. The just completed academic year saw 12 cadets
receive commissions.
Col. Thomas McCool, commander, 2nd
brigade, eastern region, cadet command, visited SRU recently to
present SRU President Robert Smith and Lt. Col. Bill Bialozor,
professor of military science at SRU, the 2004 award, an engraved
baseball bat as “Most Valuable Program – Mission
Accomplished.”
Of
the 12 second lieutenants commissioned, seven are serving on active
duty in the Army and five others are serving with
Pennsylvania’s Army National Guard. This is the fourth
consecutive year SRU’s ROTC program has reached its
commission mission.
SRU’s
ROTC program enrolls 100 cadets. In addition to offering leadership
and officer training, the program provides three- and four-year, as
well as incentive, scholarship opportunities. In addition to a
number of Gen. Douglass MacArthur Awards, proclaiming the unit as
“Best Small School” in the region in training Army
officers, the SRU ROTC program offers a leadership minor as a means
of instilling multiple leadership traits and abilities in cadets.
Students make use of an on-campus leadership laboratory to
undertake responsibilities for planning and completing missions.
The campus program has consistently ranked in the nation’s
top 10 percent of all ROTC units.
Photo available:
(www.SRU.edu/pages/10033.asp)
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