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  • Air Force, University of Chicago celebrate AFROTC detachment activation

    University of Chicago officials hosted the Honorable Alex Wagner, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, other Department of the Air Force senior leaders and several community leaders from across Illinois as the university welcomed the newest addition to its Military

  • Maxwell | From ROTC to the Wild Blue Yonder

    While most West Virginia University students were visiting family, catching up on sleep or enjoying a vacation over the summer break, myself, and a few other cadets from across the country had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to participate in Headquarters’ Air Force Global Strike Command’s

  • AFROTC Detachment 015 hosts historic fly-in

    The Air Force ROTC Detachment 015 hosted a team of aviation professionals from the 12th Training Squadron, Joint Base San Antonio - Randolph, Texas, on Sept. 24, 2022, to educate and inspire current and future Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC cadets toward rated careers.

  • AFROTC grants accommodations for first Sikh cadet

    Cadet Gursharan Virk, a sophomore information assurance major at Detachment 255 at University of Iowa, is now allowed to wear Sikhism ceremonial accessories and abide by the religion’s grooming standards, which includes wearing a turban, necklace and bracelet, while having an uncut beard, in

  • Texas Tech ROTC cadets ‘ignite’ USSOCOM’s challenge to innovate

    The Texas Tech University cadets from Lubbock took part in the kick-off event of the USSOCOM Ignite innovation challenge in September 2021 at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, only to travel east again in January 2022 to Ft. Bragg, N.C., to update U.S. Army Special Operations Command leaders on

  • Alamo Wing hosts UTSA ROTC commissioning ceremony with former CSAF

    The 433rd Airlift Wing hosted the University of Texas at San Antonio Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Spring commissioning ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland May 14, which featured retired Gen. David L. Goldfein, the 21st Air Force chief of staff.

  • Air Force ROTC holds virtual town hall

    Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps leadership discussed the future of the program and answered questions during a virtual town hall, June 18, 2020, live on Air University’s Facebook.

  • AFROTC summer Field Training underway on AU campus

    Air Force ROTC cadets from around the country are battling the central Alabama heat this summer at Air University on their journey toward earning their gold bars. The more than 2,600 cadets from most of AFROTC’s 145 detachments are rotating through Field Training, a congressionally mandated program