Eight cadets from the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) at Appalachian State University received their second lieutenant bars during ceremonies on campus May 8. [more]

BOONE—A memorial program honoring the late Capt. Richard G. Cliff Jr. will be held May 2 at 11 a.m. at Appalachian State University.
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BOONE—Cadets from Appalachian State University competed in the 2nd Annual Mountain Man March held in Gatlinburg, Tenn., and earned top honors. [more]

When Army Capt. Richard G. Cliff Jr. was killed Sept. 29 in Afghanistan, he left behind a month-old son. The Mount Pleasant, S.C., native was a 2002 graduate of Appalachian State University. Members of the High Country Chapter of the Military Officers Association in Watauga County have contributed $1,000 to a trust fund established for Cliff’s son. John Alley, left, past president of HCMOAA, and Bob Gibbard, right, association treasurer, presented the contribution to Kevin Choe who accepted the contribution on behalf of the Cliff family. Choe is an Appalachian senior and a cadet in the ROTC program at the university. Alley is a retired colonel with the U.S Army Reserves. Gibbard, a retired major with the U.S. Army, is an academic advisor at Appalachian. (Photo by Jane Nicholson)

BOONE—War is not a time for slow learners, Lt. Col. Michael W. Minor told Appalachian State University’s ROTC cadets prior to their commissioning as second lieutenants. [more]

BOONE – The Mountaineer Battalion’s Ranger Challenge Team from the ROTC program at Appalachian State University won first place in the Victory Brigade Ranger Challenge Competition held Oct. 31-Nov. 2 at Fort Jackson, S.C. [more]

BOONE—When Lt. Col. Haimes A. (Andy) Kilgore was considering a new assignment with the U.S. Army, he listened closely to the advice of a friend. [more]

by Josh Jarman Intern, College of Fine & Applied Arts

Wesley Bauguess has created a scholarship for ROTC students at Appalachian State University in honor of her late husband Larry Bauguess, who was killed in action last May in Pakistan. [more]

BOONE—Michael Hoffman of Carthage, a ROTC cadet at Appalachian State University, has received a U.S. Army Cadet Command Culture Immersion Internship in Slovakia. The internship runs July 13 – Aug. 2. [more]