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  • UNO AFROTC Detachment collaborates on Huey landing and recruiting event

    OMAHA, Neb. -- Students, staff, alumni and cadets gathered to watch the unprecedented landing of an Air Force UH-1N Iroquois “Huey” helicopter Nov. 10, 2023 on the University of Nebraska Omaha campus. The landing was a collaboration between UNO’s Air Force ROTC Detachment 470 and the 40th

  • 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

  • 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 fly-in to historic Moton Field

    The Air Force ROTC Detachment 015 hosted a team of aviation professionals from the 12th Training Squadron, Randolph Air Force Base, 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

  • New AFJROTC director takes helm of worldwide student citizenship program

    Col. McGonigal is the leader of one of the largest, wide-reaching and most diverse organizations in the entire Department of Defense. Air Force JROTC encompasses approximately 125,000 eighth grade and high school students with roughly 1,900 retired officer and senior non-commissioned officer