ROTC completes return with signing ceremony
Amanda Woods
Issue date: 3/29/07 Section: News
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By Amanda Woods
Assistant News Editor
The near 20-year absence of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) will officially come to a close March 29, with a ceremony reinstating the military program onto the UTC campus.
The ceremony will include the signing of a contract between the university and the Army, stipulating the monetary amounts, scholarships and services each party will provide for the program, Bud Ziegler, the president of the university's Elder Scholars, said.
The signatures will include: UTC Chancellor Roger Brown, UTK Chancellor Loren Crabtree, General Gus Hargett, head of Tenn. Army National Guard, Col. Marshal Ramsey, professor of military science and tactics at UTK, Captain Ben Smith, local head of UTC ROTC and a United States Cadet Commander.
With these six signatures, UTC ROTC will be under the command of the UTK ROTC. Some teachers from the UTK ROTC program will surface on the UTC campus in the fall and begin teaching the military science programs.
This formal agreement will consist of a brief signing and will be followed by a reception open to the public, Ramsey said.
The reception held on campus will include a speech made by Chancellor Brown and the introduction of Army Cadets in the program, Ramsey continued.
This program not only affects the UTC campus, but also the neighboring colleges and high schools in the region.
According to Ziegler, UTC will host other colleges in the area such as Tennessee Temple, Lee University, Bryan College and Chattanooga State to help in the commissioning process of military soldiers.
According to advocates of the ROTC program, the need is never greater for such a program on-campus. The program builds the advantage for homeland security.
"After the advent of nuclear capability, the picture [of war] changed," Ziegler said. "Our people are facing the possibility of contaminated warfare; a nuclear holocaust.
"So many countries are in the process of developing [nuclear power]. The time element dictates a ready response, and our country needs to know who will be available immediately. The ROTC affords that."
Assistant News Editor
The near 20-year absence of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) will officially come to a close March 29, with a ceremony reinstating the military program onto the UTC campus.
The ceremony will include the signing of a contract between the university and the Army, stipulating the monetary amounts, scholarships and services each party will provide for the program, Bud Ziegler, the president of the university's Elder Scholars, said.
The signatures will include: UTC Chancellor Roger Brown, UTK Chancellor Loren Crabtree, General Gus Hargett, head of Tenn. Army National Guard, Col. Marshal Ramsey, professor of military science and tactics at UTK, Captain Ben Smith, local head of UTC ROTC and a United States Cadet Commander.
With these six signatures, UTC ROTC will be under the command of the UTK ROTC. Some teachers from the UTK ROTC program will surface on the UTC campus in the fall and begin teaching the military science programs.
This formal agreement will consist of a brief signing and will be followed by a reception open to the public, Ramsey said.
The reception held on campus will include a speech made by Chancellor Brown and the introduction of Army Cadets in the program, Ramsey continued.
This program not only affects the UTC campus, but also the neighboring colleges and high schools in the region.
According to Ziegler, UTC will host other colleges in the area such as Tennessee Temple, Lee University, Bryan College and Chattanooga State to help in the commissioning process of military soldiers.
According to advocates of the ROTC program, the need is never greater for such a program on-campus. The program builds the advantage for homeland security.
"After the advent of nuclear capability, the picture [of war] changed," Ziegler said. "Our people are facing the possibility of contaminated warfare; a nuclear holocaust.
"So many countries are in the process of developing [nuclear power]. The time element dictates a ready response, and our country needs to know who will be available immediately. The ROTC affords that."
