The ROTC full time residential Military College of Texas A&M University passes in review in Ft. Worth TX. Principal units only, not the entire 2500 corps of cadets. Cadet commanders and staffs of brigade and cadet regiments of Army, Marines, Navy, Air Force. Cadet officers with swords and high boots. All cadets of all services wear the identical academy uniform.
Army Horse Cavalry Troop of post civil war era with wagons and horse towed artillery; cadet officers in high boots doing the old time sword salute, ie, sword vertical. Cadet NCO with hand salute. (Cleanup detail of cadets in the academy doghouse hahahahaha.) At 4:00 we see a Germany Army Exchange cadet, in the gray top.
In World War 2 the ROTC Military College of Texas A&M University provided the greatest number of officers commissioned at a single college -- 12,000. This number exceeded officers commissioned by West Point. Presently the cadet corps of Texas A&M is 2500, in 46 companies of the 4 service regiments.
Martial Music :
War March........Signature March & Fight Song of the Military College & Texas A&M University (just to remind you the cadet ha of WTF you're doing there)
Patton.......Title theme, motion picture
Patton, winner of several academy awards: Best Picture, Best Actor Geo. C. Scott, Best Director.
Green Berets.......Artist Barry Sadler
War March.......Band March Off
Pentagon rankings of the top 10 ROTC college programs. Full time residential programs have an asterisk:
1. The Citadel Military College of SC*
2. Norwich University VT*
3. Virginia Military Institute*
4. Texas A&M, College Station*
5. Virginia Polytechnic Institute
6. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
7. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Institute FL
8. Hampton University, VA (a traditionally black college)
9. University of North Georgia*
10. Austin-Pea State University, TN
Princeton Army ROTC cadet squad leader of the day leads his cadet squad in field training exercises at Ft. Dix NJ with college ROTC cadre Major (L) evaluating.
Texas A&M Military College morning assembly and flag raising tribute to class of 1917 and 1967, the reviewing official being the cadet commander of the brigade class of 1967 and selected members of the class. Assembly and pass in review is led by the gal cadet commander of the cadet brigade. As in noted in the video, only 267 cadets graduated in 1967 almost all of whom were sent to Vietnam. It was one of the smallest graduating classes of Texas A&M.
Martial Music in this video:
War March
These eight ROTC colleges won the 2021
General Douglas MacArthur Foundation Awards and were recognized as the top ROTC programs in the country. The MacArthur awards are granted to academies that accomplish the mission of training and commissioning skilled lieutenants who exemplify leadership excellence, hard work, and dedication. An asterisk indicates a full time residential program.
1. Norwich University VT*
2. University of New Hampshire
3. St. John's University, MN
4. Santa Clara University, CA
5. Bowie State University MD
6. University of Oklahoma
7. University of Tennessee
8. University of South Florida
Indeed Norwich ROTC is the only one that appears on both lists. Norwich goes back to 1812 to precede the USMA at WP that was founded by Congress in 1819 and based almost entirely on Norwich. Even the Pentagon listing of the 10 usual suspects ha consistently has Norwich #2 -- with Citadel consistently as #1. Pentagon's list of the usual suspects consistently has Austin-Pea ROTC at #10, Citadel #1 and Norwich #2. In between 'em the colleges jiggle up one and down one, but, as I and others say, it's the usual suspects ha. So the MacArthur Foundation triannual evaluation offers an additional dimension to the Pentagon's own triannual evaluation (each triannual evaluation done by each of 'em in rolling thirds).
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