Academic Year 22-23 Newsletter
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Missouri S&T Army ROTC alumni,
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I'm excited to report progress at your alma mater among the Army ROTC program. It has been a busy year. We commissioned ten remarkable cadets as new Army officers (seven into the Active Duty component, one into the National Guard, and two into the US Army Reserve). Two of them are continuing their military service after the Green-To-Gold program.
This graduating cohort did well at Cadet Summer Training last year, performing in the top 20% of programs in the country at the training. Many of them were on a Ranger Challenge team that qualified for the Sandhurst national military skills competition at West Point. The average national order of merit listing placed this commissioning cohort in the top 18% of ROTC programs in the country.
Most importantly, they have been engaged leaders, instituting counseling, mentorship, training, and other programs to help our cadets all collectively succeed, including reducing academic issues within the cadet battalion and improving retention of cadets. The Army is getting some great new officers!
I invite you to reach out, check in with us if you are ever on campus, and we look forward to hearing from you on social media as well. May 2024 will be our next commissioning, but we are at every home Miner football game and have fall and spring awards events you are welcome to attend. You’ll always be Miners. If you would prefer to contact me directly about any of the above or anything in addition to get involved, email me at mrb34d@mst.edu or call at 573-341- 6802.
LTC. Matt Burmeister
Chair, Army ROTC program
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Recruiting efforts to find the next generation of Army ROTC Miners is going well. Between national scholarship recipients/accepts, Minuteman scholarship recipients, and three-year advance designee recipients, department staff assess this will be the most scholarship recipients for an incoming freshman cohort we have had in approximately the last 20 years. Army ROTC has 15 scholarship recipients/accepts right now across all categories, and are in communication with several others.
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The number of Army ROTC enrollments and scholarships received has increased since 2021. Lt. Col. Matt Burmeister attributes this to more holistic recruiting efforts, better financial incentives, and closer integration with university recruiting practices and tools.
“This is a very supportive university,” says Burmeister.
This summer, ROTC is sending four cadets to Project Global Officer (a language and cultural immersion program), four to Cadet Advanced Individual Training schools, three to Cadet Troop Leader Training, one to an internship at Army Testing and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, and 19 to Cadet Summer Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. This will result in the biggest commissioning class next year that the department has had since 2014.
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Northern Warfare Challenge results
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The team placed 23rd overall in the annual nationwide competition held in La Crosse, Wisconsin. The competition tested the physical and mental endurance of the cadets as they marched across 17 miles of snow-covered trails and freezing winds. The trails cover over 3,500 feet of elevation with six stations to test various skills before finishing at the top of Grandad’s Bluff. The team demonstrated skills on weapons qualifications, knot tying, fire starting, cold weather injury care and a 180-pound sled drag across two miles of snow and ice.
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Roberto Arzabala is studying physics and is involved in color guard, recruiting committee, and Warriors of Stonehenge. Outside of ROTC, he is involved in the Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and Club Tennis.
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Jacob Ewing is studying engineering management. He is in cannon crew, color guard, recruiting committee, and competed on our Ranger Buddy and Ranger Challenge teams. Outside of ROTC, he is in Epsilon Mu Eta, the National Honor Society for Engineering Management, the American Society of Engineering Management, and Phi Sigma honor fraternity.
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Cody Nieters is studying aerospace engineering and is the tactical officer for our battalion. He helps the third-year students prepare for camp, tracks battalion wellness and develops our physical training plan. Outside ROTC, he is involved in S&T’s Tau Kappa Epsilon chapter, Miner Aviation design team, and works part-time for the Boeing-S&T cooperative service agreement.
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The Super Lab is a semiannual training event geared towards teaching cadets individual soldier tasks and developing them into effective leaders. This semester, the lab included four events: engagement skills trainer, call for fire, tactical combat casualty care, and rappelling. Army ROTC had the privilege of the 5th Engineer Battalion providing instructors and training aids to amplify the tactical combat casualty care instruction.
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Support the S&T Army ROTC program
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Missouri S&T is grateful for the difference your support makes in our work. Because of your generosity, we are able to provide continued high-quality education, support and experiential learning to Army ROTC students. We hope you’ll help us keep making a difference in our students’ lives by giving back to Missouri S&T. Visit giving.mst.edu and designate your gift for the Army ROTC program, or donations can be directed to the Military Science registered student organization “Warriors of Stonehenge” for the benefit of the cadet battalion.
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