ROTC Offers Many Opportunities to Excel
In Army ROTC, it's not all classroom and field training. There are many opportunities
for you to get to know your fellow cadets better and increase your skills in a variety
of areas. Learn more about these events and activities below.
Ranger Challenge
The Ranger Challenge is an opportunity for schools to "compete" with each other
completing military tasks. In addition to a written examination where Cadets
test their Army knowledge, there are physical fitness drills and field exercises.
Battalions leave a Ranger Challenge with stronger bonds and sharper skills.
Pershing Rifles
The National Society of Pershing Rifles gives Army ROTC Cadets the opportunity
to develop to the highest degree possible. Cadets can take part in precision
trick rifle drill teams that provide them with the outstanding traits of
leadership, military bearing and discipline.
Ranger Challenge
Ranger Challenge is considered the varsity sport of Army ROTC. Each year,
the competition, for 1 st Brigade is held at Devens, MA (a former Army Fort),
which is the home for ROTC’s 1st Brigade/ Eastern Region (made up of schools
from New England and New York). Those schools, which field a team, provide nine
primary members and one alternate, which make up a squad. These squads
participate in a series of eight events over the course of the competition
weekend. These squads are compiled from the best cadets in each host school’s
ROTC Battalion. The events for the competition are the standard APFT, an
obstacle course, one rope bridge, a patrolling exam, orienteering course, M16
marksmanship, M16 weapons disassembly/reassembly, concluding with a 10 km ruck
march.
Curtis Cup Competition
The Curtis Cup competition is a co-ed, round robin, flag football
competition between the three ROTC services at Boston University: Army, Navy,
and Air Force. It has traditionally been held in the middle of the fall
semester based on the availability of all three services. The competition is
not only to create a healthy challenge between services, but also provide an
opportunity to unite the three services and facilitate interaction and
camaraderie amongst cadets and midshipmen throughout the ROTC services.
Dining- in Dinner
This event is a very fun time in which all cadets and cadre from Boston
University and Stonehill College as well as their attached schools come
together. This is an old tradition in which cadets and cadre alike get to
pick on each other and have fun. It is an event that brings everybody
closer and makes you feel like one big family we call the Charles River
Battalion
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