{"id":37826,"date":"2015-08-28T15:13:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T01:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=37826"},"modified":"2021-08-04T10:00:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T20:00:23","slug":"uh-manoas-army-rotc-named-one-of-the-best-in-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/08\/28\/uh-manoas-army-rotc-named-one-of-the-best-in-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s Army ROTC<\/abbr> named one of the best in the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>

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The Army ROTC<\/abbr> (Reserve Officers’ Training Corps) program<\/a> at University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> has been honored with a MacArthur Award, signifying that it is one of the top eight university ROTC<\/abbr> units in the nation.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> Mānoa’s Army ROTC<\/abbr> was named best battalion within the Eighth Brigade, which consists of the 30 senior Army ROTC<\/abbr> programs on the West Coast, as well as in Alaska, Guam and Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. This is the fourth time that the school has received the award, with previous recognition in 2008, 2002 and 2001.<\/p>\n

\"MacArthur<\/p>\n

The MacArthur Award recognizes the top schools in eight brigades, selected from among the 275 senior ROTC<\/abbr> programs nationwide. <\/p>\n

Criteria for the award include performance on the Cadet National Order of Merit list, cadet retention ratio, quality and performance of military training and newly commissioned second lieutenants.<\/p>\n

The awards, presented by the U.S. Army Cadet Command and the General Douglas MacArthur Foundation, recognize the military ideals of “duty, honor and country,” as advocated by General Douglas MacArthur.<\/p>\n

“It is an extreme honor to bring this prestigious award to the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>,” said Lt. Col. John P. Carson IV<\/abbr><\/strong>, professor of military science at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa. “The UH<\/abbr> Army ROTC program is in the business of growing highly qualified leaders of character for the nation, and this recognition confirms that this is exactly what we are doing.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Army ROTC program at UH<\/abbr> Mānoa has been honored with a MacArthur Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[735,422,911,9],"class_list":["post-37826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-campus-recognition","tag-nrotc","tag-program-recognition","tag-uh-manoa","entry","no-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37826"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145940,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37826\/revisions\/145940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}