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The Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa has been honored as one of the top college Army ROTC units in the nation.
The university announced Friday that the UH ROTC unit had won a MacArthur Award, which recognizes the top schools in eight brigades nationwide.
UH-Manoa’s Army ROTC was named best battalion within the 8th Brigade, which consists of the 30 senior Army ROTC programs on the West Coast as well as in Alaska, Guam and Hawaii. This is the fourth time that the school has received the award, with previous recognition in 2008, 2002 and 2001.
Criteria for the award include performance on the Cadet National Order of Merit list, cadet retention, quality and performance of military training, and newly commissioned second lieutenants.
The awards, presented by the U.S. Army Cadet Command and the General Douglas MacArthur Foundation, recognize the military ideals of "duty, honor and country," as advocated by Gen. Douglas MacArthur.
There are 275 senior ROTC programs nationwide.