A squad of 12 cadets stealthily crept through the woods in Mount Pleasant brandishing dummy rifles, grenades and bazookas. Their mission: find and attack the enemy bunker. The exercise was one of many that were completed from Thursday to Sunday as part of this fall’s Army ROTC Field Training Exercise. 

U.S. Air Force Special Agent Phil Caruso ’08, who deployed to Afghanistan in February, said he feels lucky to be alive after he saw an Afghan child tug at wires buried beneath the ground.

Members of Cornell ROTC trained in the woods of Mt. Pleasant this weekend.

Currently stationed in Afghanistan, the Army second lieutenant seeks to pursue a graduate degree after returning home.

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The repeal of DADT may foster better realtions between ROTC and the LGBT community at several Ivy League universities.

Isaac Todd ’11 is ranked No. 7 out of more than 5,000 Army ROTC cadets nationwide.

Cornell Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is grappling with the recently-stayed court injunction against “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” — a policy that forbids gays and lesbians from openly serving in the armed forces. 

Petraeus addressed questions about the challenges of establishing a viable Afghan government, the cause of some military successes in Iraq, the military’s increased reliance on contractors, the relationship between civilian and military leadership and minimizing civilian causalities, among other topics.

Gen. David Petraeus, the head of the U.S. Central Command, will visit Cornell’s campus Friday, ROTC leaders said Thursday.

Follow a day in the life of the average ROTC student at Big Red in this week's Cornell Diaries.