UMaine Army ROTC receives General Douglas MacArthur Award, WVII reports
WVII (Channel 7) reported the University of Maine Army Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) recently was awarded the prestigious General Douglas MacArthur Award. UMaine was one of eight schools, selected from among the 275 senior Army ROTC units nationwide, as the top programs in the country. The award is based on a combination of the achievement of the school’s commissioning mission, its cadets’ performance and standing on the command’s National Order of Merit List, and its cadet retention rate. “Ultimately the goal for us is to produce good cadets and good lieutenants for future leaders of America, and if I’m doing that, then I’m successful. This is just a little bit of icing on the cake,” said Lt. Col. Mike Davis, professor of military science with UMaine Army ROTC.