MS 201-B Course taught by CPT Carbaugh.
EWU ROTC
1400-MS 201A
This is the MS 201A course taught by CPT Carbaugh.
September 2018 EWU ROTC Newsletter Published
See what the fantastic Cadets in the Fighting Eagles Battalion have been doing over the past month by clicking the below link to download an online PDF file of the September 2018 EWU ROTC Newsletter:
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Go Fighting Eagles!
EWU ROTC Conducts Fall 2018 Basic Land Navigation Training
Cadets in the Eastern Washington University (EWU) Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program receive extensive training on basic land navigation. Our land navigation training for the first year Cadets began last month during the field training phase of our Jump Start program. This week’s leadership laboratory built on the skills learned during Jump Start and follow on classroom training. During the lab Cadets validated their pace counts, practiced plotting grid points on a map, shooting azimuths with a compass, and finding points on a land navigation course.
The lab was held in the wide open Palouse landscape east of the EWU campus. The rolling Palouse terrain makes for perfect conditions to teach basic land navigation to Cadets.
Cadets find land navigation points in the Palouse plains East of the EWU campus.
The Junior and Senior Cadets during the lab taught basic land navigation skills to the freshman and sophomores. Future land navigation training will occur in the wooded terrain to the east of Cheney that will add a further level of difficulty for the junior Cadets to better master their land navigation skills. Learning land navigation is an important skill for Cadets to learn because most of the Cadets will attend Advanced Camp during the summer between their Junior and Senior years in college. At Advanced Camp being able to successfully pass the land navigation course at Ft. Knox, Kentucky is required for all Cadets. The land navigation training offered in the EWU ROTC program ensures that Cadets are ready to succeed at Advanced Camp.
Below are pictures from the basic land navigation lab:
Cadet Isabelle Erickson (center) listens to the basic land navigation instruction.
EWU ROTC Cadets plot grid points on their maps.
Cadets Everett Kuhnel (left) and Austin Bristow (right) use their compass to navigate towards their next point.
Cadet James Tallakson (left) provides instruction on how to properly use a compass to Cadet Isabell Erickson (right).
Cadet Maddie Woodland (right) walks through the Palouse wheat fields to find her next land navigation point.
Cadet Nicholas Null traverses the land navigation course.
Throwback Thursday: Cadet Fred Wong Accepts Award as EWU’s Top Rifle Team Shooter in 1963
The below image from 1963 is of Cadet Fred Wong receiving an award as the top shooter of the ROTC Rifle Team. The award is being presented to him from the then Eastern Washington State College Professor of Military Science Colonel Erwin Nilsson.
Cadet Wong would go on to graduate in 1964 as a Distinguished Military Graduate and commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Signal Corps branch. Wong would later attend the Infantry Officer’s Advanced Course and serve as a Rifle Company Commander in Vietnam. After serving in Vietnam, the then Captain Wong came back to EWU as an ROTC instructor where he completed his Masters degree in guidance and counseling. Wong would serve a total 31 years in the Army before retiring in 1995 at the rank of Brigadier General (BG). Watch the below video where BG Wong describes his career after being honored in 2016 by EWU for his Exceptional Military Service.
EWU ROTC Conducts Physical Training At Roos Field
It has been another good start to the week with our Eastern Washington University (EWU) ROTC Cadets conducting early morning Physical Training (PT). Despite the rainy and cool conditions this week, our Cadets have been working up a sweat over at the Inferno at Roos Field. The Cadets have been conducting rotational workouts at different stations that includes running the stadium stairs, sprints on the track, fireman carries, and other conditioning workouts. Building fitness is part of our mission of building leaders here at the EWU ROTC program.
Below is a few pictures from our PT sessions so far this week. Go Fighting Eagles!
