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In a year marked by strife and a pandemic that restricted activities within the Army’s cadet corps, leaders at the service’s three commissioning institutions say they’ve worked to imbue future leaders with a sense of urgency and cultural sensitivity as they transform from civilians into Army officers.
Cadet Summer Training, the Army’s largest annual training event, will not take place this summer at Fort Knox, Kentucky, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, officials announced.
Instead, much of the training will be delayed until the fall semester, and the Army will conduct a “distributed execution” of the training on various university campuses across the country, according to a statement from Army Cadet Command.
Eight ROTC units were selected from among hundreds of schools nationwide to receive the General Douglas MacArthur Award for standing out as the top programs in the country, the U.S. Army Cadet Command announced.
Presented by Cadet Command and the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Foundation since 1989, the prestigious award recognizes the ideals of “duty, honor and country” as advocated by MacArthur.
The Army has seen an increase in women applying to and being accepted by the U.S. Military Academy and ROTC programs, something the Army’s personnel chief credits to success in gender integration.
Lt. Gen. Thomas Seamands, deputy Army chief of staff for personnel, told a House committee that having women graduate from Ranger School, become infantry company commanders and take on other new assignments has helped recruit more women into the Army.
The Army is making gains in leadership diversity, with the number of female cadets increasing in the ROTC and at the U.S. Military Academy.
“The Army is committed to manning a force that reflects the diversity of the nation,” Lt. Gen. James C. McConville, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for personnel, told a House subcommittee. “We have made improvements in representing the diversity of America’s talent in our officer corps.”
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The ability of Fort Knox, Ky., to support a wide spectrum of training makes it an “incredible installation” that plays an essential role not only for the Army but for the entire U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter says.
Carter recently visited the post to speak to Army ROTC cadets going through summer training. “The reason that we have the finest fighting force the world has ever known is because of our people,” he said. “And for commissioned officers it starts, importantly, for 40 percent of the Army, in ROTC.”
Both the current and future presidents of the Association of the U.S. Army were part of a 300-person inaugural class inducted June 10 into the Army ROTC Hall of Fame at Fort Knox, Ky.
The event came as the Reserve Officers' Training Corps marks its 100th anniversary.
Inducted into the Hall of Fame was retired Army Gen. Gordon R. Sullivan, AUSA’s current president and CEO. He is a 1959 ROTC graduate of Norwich University, a private military college in Vermont that is the birthplace of the Reserve Officer Training Corps.
One hundred years ago, President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Defense Act of 1916 establishing the Reserve Officers’ Training Co
