ROTC program teams up with Morehead
0By Brandon Marty
UPIKE’S ROTC program teamed up with the Morehead University, and Austin P. State University ROTC programs to conduct Field Training Exercise at Fort Campbell, Ky., for real world events from April 10-12. Once the cadets all arrived at Ft. Campbell, each college was split up into different groups of platoons.
Cadets integrated and worked closely with soldiers from the 101st Air Borne division. They conducted various missions as American military forces, trained by Special Forces group.
The three-day exercise provided multiple opportunities to serve in and be evaluated in a variety of leadership positions. Cadets faced irregular problems sets where decision-making was key. The missions conducted were mounted land navigation, nonconventional small unit tactics, and communications training. Involved in these missions were tactical knowledge, adaptive, creative and critical thinking, and ethical decision-making.
UPIKE ROTC cadet Cody Foister said, “I felt the FTX offered a once-in-a-lifetime training event for cadets that evolved not only tactics training from elite level professional soldiers, but also critical things exercise that challenged your mind to think about every eliminate of the battlefield but also related to a garrison type environment”.
The outcome from this training was that cadets developed teamwork, leadership, critical thinking, problem solving, and ethical decision making in a hostile environment.