Teaching The Leaders Of Tomorrow

UNC’s Youngest ROTC Program – already the biggest and best!

At UNC-CH we are looking for twenty to thirty people a year who are willing to serve their country as a leader and officer in the Army. We average 70-80 total students who are in our program at any given time. You can still pursue any major you select at Carolina while you are in the ROTC Program and be commissioned as a Lieutenant in the US Army, US Army Reserve, or National Guard after graduation.We have a wide variety of majors in the program – they include: Generalists; Psychology; History; Peace, War and Defense; Nursing; Medical School; Business; Communications; Engineering; Law; and Anthropology. We have both undergraduate and graduate students in the program.

This is a four year, 18 academic hour program. However, we have alternate methods where current Carolina Freshmen, Sophomores, and even some Juniors that can be completed in only two years. All of our ROTC courses can be counted as elective credit for any undergraduate degree, so you risk nothing by trying out ROTC to see if it’s right for you.

In 1993, COL William Causey, 1968 UNC graduate and commander of the Carolina Army ROTC Brigade, pushed to upgrade the UNC-Chapel Hill Army ROTC program from cross-enrollment status to extension center status.  In spring 1994, the Army approved the upgrade, making UNC-Chapel Hill’s ROTC program the Army’s only new ROTC program in the nation for that year.

On March 22, 1995, UNC officially became an extension center of Army ROTC.  By August 1995, cadet enrollment at Chapel Hill was larger than cadet enrollment at either Duke or NCCU, and that summer, among the 16 programs in the Carolina Brigade, Chapel Hill cadets attained the highest composite averages in leadership and military proficiency. 

In spring 1997, LTC James Rhoads, Extension Center OIC at UNC-Chapel Hill, applied to upgrade the Army ROTC program from Extension Center status to Host status.  The young program was doing very well; in 1997 it won the prestigious Douglas MacArthur Award for being the most outstanding Army ROTC program in the nation (small program category).  Effective 1 September 1997, the Army formally approved UNC’s upgrade to Host status.  UNC won the Douglas MacArthur award again in 1999 and 2003. 

LTC Gregory Daddis, Professor of Military Science

CPT Scott Walton, Battalion Executive Officer

LTC Bruce “Andy” Anderson, Battalion S3

LTC Mike Mullins, Battalion Recruiting Operations Officer

MSG Dexter Scott, Senior Military Instructor

SFC Andrew Kurz, Battalion Training NCO

Ms Margarita Hawkins, Human Resource Administrator

Mr Jon Hart, Supply Technician 

Bn Cdr: C/LTC Julia Buckner

Bn XO: C/MAJ Japeth Barkman

Bn CSM: C/CSM Tyrel Keplinger

Bn S1: C/CPT Adam Blocker

Bn S2: C/CPT Peter Huang

Bn S3:  C/MAJ Rob Berra

Bn S4: C/CPT Matt Freund

See group photos of each year’s previous graduating classes.