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For Veterans Day this year, BYU's Army and Air Force ROTC programs remembered those who paid the ultimate sacrifice through military service and honored finance professor Jim Brau.
The BYU Army and Air Force ROTC programs recently held three commissioning ceremonies honoring 31 cadets.
BYU Army ROTC cadets placed in the top five at the Sandhurst Military Skills Competition in West Point, New York.
On November 11, 2021, the BYU Air Force and Army ROTC commemorated Veterans Day through a wreath-laying ceremony and presidential review.
A group of BYU Army ROTC students finished tenth out of more than forty teams in the April 2021 Sandhurst Challenge at West Point, New York.
In remembrance of the tragic events of September 11th, members from the BYU Army and Air Force ROTC joined together to reflect and honor the fallen.
BYU Marriott Army and Air Force ROTC cadets recently commissioned as second lieutenants in the military.
Cadets and faculty in BYU's Air Force ROTC and Army ROTC programs commemorated Veterans Day last month with activities that focused on both honoring the 212 fallen soldiers on the Memorial Wall in BYU's Wilkinson Student Center.
Eleven cadets on the joint BYU and Utah Valley University Service First Battalion Ranger Challenge Team won the 5th ROTC Brigade Ranger Challenge at Camp Gruber Oklahoma, 3 November 2019.
The past, present, and future don't often collide, but they certainly did during the BYU Air Force ROTC's senior capstone event: a six-day staff ride to Washington, DC, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, and other historic sites.
This past summer, cadets from BYU and UVU in Air Force ROTC Detachment 855 gave the city of Orem a little taste of what flying an F-16 military jet is like.
Air Force Detachment 855's annual military parade was held this spring as one hundred sixty cadets drilled across the Richards Building fields.
Juniors from the BYU Marriott ROTC program who are now attending Advanced Camp, a thirty-one-day training event held at Fort Knox, Kentucky, were given a practice during field training conducted in St. George, Utah.
Standing on Utah Beach, each senior cadet told the story of a soldier or civilian involved in the Allied invasion of Normandy during World War II. Cadets told these stories in the first person while looking at the battlefield on which Americans fought.
Every semester approximately forty BYU Marriott cadets elect to join the newly organized honor guard and use what extra time they have to set a high standard for other students and compete around the country.
The number of cadets enrolled in BYU Marriott's Air Force ROTC program has taken flight, rising from about one hundred in 2012 to more than 180 today.
Brigham Young University's Army ROTC program can now say it's one of the best in the country after an impressive performance at a prestigious international military skills competition.
BYU’s ROTC program won a prestigious award given to the top eight programs in the nation.
What does it take to turn a twenty-mile journey into a first place victory?
Forty-three cadets passed seven evaluations to receive the German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge to test participants' physical and mental skills.
Chase Dowse, a senior majoring in geospatial intelligence who recently received the George C. Marshall ROTC Award for leadership after serving as company commander over all BYU and UVU Army ROTC cadets.
BYU’s Army ROTC has a lasting tradition of producing top military leaders. Founded in 1968, BYU’s program has become the largest in the nation. In January 2016, the program received the Geronimo Award, an honor given to the best large-level program within the seven-state region. As of last year, fifty percent of BYU Army ROTC graduates ranked in the top twenty percent of graduates nationwide.
Sunday marked fifteen years since the devastating terrorist attacks that killed thousands of people in New York City, Virginia, and Pennsylvania on September 11, 2001.
Despite a heated history between the BYU Cougars and the Utah Utes on the football field, the universities’ ROTC battalions work together to deliver the game ball from Provo to Rice-Eccles Stadium each “Deseret First Duel” game day. The longstanding tradition, reaching back to the seventies, confirms that, notwithstanding the teams’ ardent rivalry, the Army ROTC battalions at both schools fight for the same team.