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Jayhawk Battalion to Commission New Lieutenants
The Jayhawk battalion will conduct its Spring Commissioning ceremony on 21 May 2001 at the Kansas Union Main Ballroom at 10:00 O'clock. Six cadets will exchange their cadet rank for gold bars in the annual ceremony. The guest speaker will be BG Huntoon, Deputy Commanding General, United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth Kansas. All are encouraged to attend. Four other cadets will commission on 1 August 2001 making a total of 13 Army cadets receiving their commissions this year.
Cadet Robert Chamberlain was one of 75 recipients of the 2001 Truman Scholarship. There were over 1000 applicants vying for this prestigious honor. He was the only ROTC candidate across the nation to receive the scholarship. Cadet Chamberlain will also take command as the Cadet Battalion Commander during our annual awards ceremony this spring. Cadet Chamberlain will Command during the Fall 2001 Semester.
The Jayhawk battalion will send 23 juniors to the Advanced Camp this summer located at Fort Lewis, WA. This is the largest number of Jayhawks attending in over five years. These cadets will receive leadership training and evaluations over a 35-day period, which will test their physical stamina and leadership capabilities. We wish them success at this challenging mission.
MAJ Brian De Toy, Infantry, will assume command as the Professor of Military Science in July 2001. MAJ De Toy holds a baccalaureate degree from Notre Dame and a PhD in History from Florida State. LTC Anthony J. Gasbarre, outgoing Professor of Military Science will assume responsibilities as the Director of Plans, Training and mobilization and Deputy Garrison Commander at Fort Leavenworth in June 2001.
In other News…..
Retired Army brigadier gets secretary of Army nod
The White House announced President George W. Bush intends to nominate retired Brig. Gen. Thomas E. White as the next secretary of the Army during a press briefing April 24. If confirmed by Congress, the former cavalryman will become the 18th secretary of Army since the National Defense Act of 1947 created the position. During his 23-year Army career, White served in a variety of command positions, including commander of First Squadron, 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment and a few years later, commander of the regiment itself in Fulda, Germany. His other assignments include executive assistant to Gen. Colin Powell and director of the Army chief of staff's Armor/Anti-Armor Special Task Force. Shortly after retiring from the Army, White joined the Enron Operations Corporation where he currently serves as the chairman and chief operating officer. White is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y.; U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Calif.; Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kan.; and the War College, Carlisle Barracks, Pa. The secretary of the Army is responsible for all matters relating to Army manpower, personnel, reserve affairs, installations, environmental issues, weapons systems, equipment acquisition, communications and financial management. Currently, the secretary manages a budget of almost $70 billion and workforce of more that one million active-duty, Reserve and National Guard soldiers and 270,000 civilian employees. Along with the secretary of the Army nomination, the White House identified the men Bush intends to nominate as secretaries of the other military services. They are James G. Roche, a retired Navy officer and current corporate vice president at Northrop Grumman Corporation, for the Air Force and Gordan England, currently the executive vice president for General Dynamics, for the Navy.
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