On April 28, NSU’s Military Affairs Veterans Resource Center will host its first Joint Commissioning and Pinning Ceremony to celebrate students within the Reserve Officers’ Training Corp (ROTC) who will be com-missioning into the armed forces. It will take place at the NSU Armed Forces Service Flag Plaza in front of the Horvitz Administration building.
NSU’s Military Affairs Veterans Resource Center does the Fins Up pose at NSU’s Forman Field.
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Family members, administrators and students are invited to the ceremony where ROTC students who have completed up to four years in their ROTC training will be commissioned into the army and receive their second lieutenant rank.
Existing officers who have completed their medical school from the Health Professions Scholarship Program with an O-1 (2nd lieutenant) rank will receive their commission into O-3 (captain).
“This is one of those culminating events that is special not only for us as NSU, but also [a] monumental period threshold for these individuals, these cadets, that are in ROTC that have gone up to four years in their cadet training, and for those officers that have completed their medical school and [are] entering the military as doctors,” Senior Director of Military Affairs Matthew Chenworth said.
This year’s group of students are the second to go through the ceremony. The first group was commissioned in winter 2022.
The ceremonies were originally held separately. This will be the first year they are both combined, making both sets of students pioneers.
“Here on campus, you see a lot of emphasis on leadership, on legacy, on service. This is an event where these students are combining all of those together. They are able to continue to serve not just NSU but their country,” Chenworth continued.
In order to be pinned as a second lieutenant, cadets in the program have good academic performance and are both physically fit and mentally sound.
Cadets also receive a bachelor’s in their fields and a minor in military science. Cadets who finish the program enter into the U.S. Army.
In comparison, members of the Health Professions Scholarship Program can enter into one of the many branches as a medical professional, receiving the rank of O-3, the name of which varies from branch to branch.
“To the individual cadet, this marks the beginning of their military service and their life as an army leader. To the university, this honors their investment in their students’ future career path and displays their unwavering support of the military, and moreover cements their claim as a military-friendly university,” Cadet Ryan Levack said in a statement.
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