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ROTC members holding flags during ceremony
May 1, 2015
Yale’s Navy and Air Force ROTC programs were re-established on campus in the fall of 2012 after a four-decade-long hiatus that began during the turbulent Vietnam War era....
(Illustration by Patrick Lynch)
April 21, 2015
When Andrew Heymann ’15 joined Yale’s Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) midway through his sophomore year, the unit was in its fledgling stage, and he wasn’t sure...
Air Force ROTC cadet Madeline Skrocki '17 of Calhoun College (left) talks with Deborah Lee James, U.S. secretary of the Air Force, during the Yale Veterans Summit, held April 10–11 on campus. (Photo by Major Jason Bast)
April 13, 2015
When Chris Harnisch was on a plane home after a 14-month deployment in Afghanistan, the flight attendant, noticing his uniform, asked where he was coming from. When he told...
Cadet Carissa Silva of the University of New Haven hugs her little brother at the ROTC Oath of Enlistment ceremony.
September 5, 2014
Nine Air Force ROTC cadets from Detachment 009 assembled in Beinecke Plaza on Sept. 4 and took the Oath of Enlistment into the United States Air Force. Six of those cadets...
December 9, 2013
Students may earn a commission in the United States Air Force by completing requirements of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program as part of their studies at the...
August 29, 2012
For the first time in decades, Yale students will today attend courses on campus as part of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps.
September 16, 2011
U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley and University President Richard C. Levin (pictured shaking hands) signed an agreement Sept. 12 to establish an Air Force...