Temple University Army ROTC

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The Temple University Army Reserve Officer's Training Corps is an officer commissioning program for the United States Army for students attending Temple University and neighboring colleges. [1] The program commissions officers through Army ROTC. Temple University's Red Diamond Battalion is one of the many parts of the 2nd Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade, which is headquartered at Fort Dix. Temple University students who wish to commission as officers into the United States Navy or the United States Marine Corps participate in the Navy ROTC program at the University of Pennsylvania. Those wishing to earn an officer's commission in the United States Air Force participate in the Air Force ROTC program at Saint Joseph's University.

United States Army Land warfare branch of the United States Armed Forces

The United States Army (USA) is the land warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the seven uniformed services of the United States, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the United States Constitution. As the oldest and most senior branch of the U.S. military in order of precedence, the modern U.S. Army has its roots in the Continental Army, which was formed to fight the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783)—before the United States of America was established as a country. After the Revolutionary War, the Congress of the Confederation created the United States Army on 3 June 1784 to replace the disbanded Continental Army. The United States Army considers itself descended from the Continental Army, and dates its institutional inception from the origin of that armed force in 1775.

Temple University public research university in Philadelphia, United States

Temple University is a state-related research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1884 by Baptist Minister Russell Conwell. In 1882, Conwell came to Pennsylvania to lead the Grace Baptist Church while he began tutoring working class citizens late at night to accommodate their work schedules. These students, later dubbed "night owls", were taught in the basement of Conwell's Baptist Temple, hence the origin of the university's name and mascot. By 1907, the institution revised its institutional status and was incorporated as a university.

2nd Reserve Officers Training Corps Brigade

The 2nd Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade is an Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps brigade based at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

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History

The Reserve Officer's Training Program was born in 1862 with the approval of the Morrill Act. A part of this law required colleges and universities to provide military training to their students. This program eventually became known as ROTC. Up until the 1960s, participation in the ROTC program was mandatory for all males. This requirement was discontinued due to the protests against the Vietnam War.

Vietnam War 1955–1975 conflict in Vietnam

The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975, with U.S. involvement ending in 1973. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; South Vietnam was supported by the United States, South Korea, the Philippines, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is considered a Cold War-era proxy war from some US perspectives. It lasted some 19 years and included the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, resulting in all three countries becoming communist states in 1975. The outcome of the war humiliated the United States and diminished its reputation in the world.

Army ROTC was introduced to Temple University in 1947, and originally served the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army. The program trained Cadets to be officers while providing them with the medical training to serve as officers in the U.S. Army's Medical Corps. The Battalion was located at Temple University's Health Services Campus. In 1948, a separate ROTC program was started at Temple University's main campus, and focused on commissioning officers into the U.S. Army's Transportation Corps. A total of 83 Cadets had commissioned from the program by 1953, and had gone on to serve in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force as well as the U.S. Army. In 1954, the ROTC program changed from branch focused training to a general military science program.

Transportation Corps branch of the United States Army

The Transportation Corps was established 31 July 1942 by Executive Order 9082. The Transportation Corps is a combat service support branch of the U.S. Army, and was headquartered at Fort Eustis, Virginia, but moved to Fort Lee, Virginia in 2010. It is also one of three U.S. Army logistics branches, the others being the Quartermaster Corps and the Ordnance Corps. The Transportation Corps is responsible for the movement of personnel and material by truck, rail, air, and sea. Its motto is "Spearhead of Logistics," and it is currently the third smallest branch of the Army.

As of 2017, Temple University's Army ROTC program has commissioned 2,120 officers.

Distinguished Military Graduates

Distinguished Military Graduates (DMGs) are those cadets that have assessed in the top 20% of all cadets commissioning in the country that year. Since 2007, Temple University ROTC has commissioned 20 DMGs. In 2018, Temple University Army ROTC will commission 10 DMGs out of 30 total Cadets. This is the highest rate of DMGs in the history of the Red Diamond Battalion.

Affiliate Schools

Not all colleges have an ROTC program but many have agreements with other schools that do to allow their students to join those programs. For this reason, one does not have to attend Temple University to be a part of its ROTC program. Students with full-time status at these affiliated schools are allowed to train and commission from Temple ROTC.

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