Virginia Tech and its Corps of Cadets have a long tradition of providing service to the military. Seven Medal of Honor recipients are alumni or former cadets at Virginia Tech.
ColonelJulien E. Gaujot, US Army (1893) – awarded the Medal of Honor for actions on the Mexican border in 1914, the only soldier ever awarded the Medal for actions of a peacekeeping nature; brother of Antoine Gaujot (did not graduate)
Sergeant Herbert J. Thomas, USMC (1944) – awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions on Bougainville Island during World War II; member of Virginia Tech's Athletic Hall of Fame (did not graduate)
Markus Breitschmid (1994, M.S.) – internationally active Swiss architectural theoretician, historian, and author
Julian Ashby Burruss (1898) – first president of Normal and Industrial School for Women (now James Madison University); eighth president of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Thomas DiLorenzo – Austrian School economist and author; professor at Loyola University in Baltimore (Ph.D. in economics)
Mark Embree (1996) – Rhodes Scholar; professor of mathematics at Virginia Tech;Leader of the Computational Modeling and Data Analytics (CMDA) department at Virginia Tech[2]
Regina E. Dugan (1984 B.S., 1985 M.S.) – former vice president of Engineering, Facebook Inc.; former vice president of Advanced Technology and Projects at Google also known as the "Moonshot" project; 19th Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – the first woman to lead the agency
Mike Michalowicz (1993) – author of business books and former columnist for The Wall Street Journal; MSNBC television personality; co-captain of Virginia Tech men's lacrosse team 1993
Frank Sturgis, born Frank Angelo Fiorini (attended in the 1940s) – convicted for the Watergate burglaries that ultimately led to the resignation of US President Richard M. Nixon; served in the US Marines, Navy, and Army and as a covert operative in Latin America
Rob Wittman – Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 1st District
Catherine Woteki (1971, M.S., Ph.D.) – Under Secretary for USDA's Research, Education, and Economics mission area, as well as the department's chief scientist
DeAngelo Hall (2005) – defensive back for the Washington Redskins; 8th overall pick at the 2004 NFL Draft and played in consecutive Pro-Bowls in 2006–2007 (did not graduate)
Frank Loria – first Team All-American safety for VT (1967); first Team Academic All-American (1967); College Football Hall of Fame member (1999); was defensive backs coach for Marshall (age 23) when he and the team were killed in a plane crash (1970)
Kristi Castlin (2010) – 2016 Rio Olympics, Bronze Medal 100M hurdles[26]
Queen Harrison – three-time NCAA women's national champion in the 60m, 100m and 400m hurdles; 2008 US Olympian in the 400m hurdles; won the 2010 Bowerman, the "Heisman of track and field"
Marcel Lomnicky – 2009 NCAA men's national champion in the hammer throw
Wrestling
Jim Miller – wrestled for Virginia Tech as a freshman walk-on during the 2002–2003 season; professional MMA fighter[27]
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