Five men stand on a stage before the national and state colors. A man in a dark suit at left, three cadets holding certificate folders and medals, and an Army officer at right.

Three Cadets Receive the Society ROTC Award at McDaniel College

Cadets from several Maryland colleges gathered at McDaniel College in Westminster on Friday, May 8, 2026, for the spring awards review, and Society member David Hoover presented the Society’s ROTC award, a certificate and a medal, to three of them.

Five men stand on a stage before the national and state colors. A man in a dark suit at left, three cadets holding certificate folders and medals, and an Army officer at right.
Three cadets with the Society’s ROTC award certificates and medals at McDaniel College.

McDaniel has carried an Army ROTC program since 1919, which makes it one of the oldest in the country. The battalion it hosts, the Green Terror Battalion, takes in cadets from Hood College and Mount St. Mary’s University as well as McDaniel, so the spring review draws a room from across this part of the state. The year’s awards are read out there, the Society’s among them.

The Society has presented awards to cadets and midshipmen in Maryland for many years, to Army, Navy and Air Force units alike. The point of it is simple enough. The men who fought in 1812 were citizen soldiers who left their trades and turned out when the state asked them to, and a cadet who is preparing to serve is the nearest thing we have to them now.

Well done, gentlemen.