Teaching The Leaders Of Tomorrow

MSU Army ROTC is a program of leadership and military skills training. It prepares MSU students for officer responsibilities in the active Army, Army Reserve, or Army National Guard following graduation.

At MSU, more than 300 students take Army ROTC courses on campus each year. They include students from business, nursing, humanities, education and behavioral sciences, science and technology, and all other academic fields. Each year, about 15 MSU students complete the Army ROTC program and earn presidential appointments as Army officers.

In 1967 during the height of the Vietnam anti-war protests, when many Universities were pushing ROTC programs off their campuses, Morehead State University was actively lobbying to establish a program on their campus. General Order No. 50, signed December 1967, established the Morehead State University Eagle Battalion with its first class beginning in 1968. Ever since, the Eagle Battalion has enjoyed the strong support and respect of the University and surrounding community.

Each member of the Eagle Battalion Faculty have recent combat experience, and have served in a variety of branches with duty stations around the globe. 

33% of the Eagle Battalion’s students attending Warrior Forge 2005 graduated in the top of their year group. (Warrior Forge is a leadership development and assessment course, attended by all MS-III students)

MSU Eagle Battalion Alumni include many distinguished graduates such as Walter Blevins, Kentucky State Senator; Reverend Charles Green; Reverend William Bentley; The Honorable Lewis Nicholls, judge in Greenup County, KY; Dr. Danny Burns; Dr. Lary Kelsch; Dr. Timothy Leonard; Dr. Daniel Manely; Dr. Robert Williams; Dr Robert Williams; Dr. Earl Wood, III; David Teater Attorney at Law; Eric Conn Attorney at Law; Maxwell Hamond Attorney at Law; Roy Downey Attorney at Law; John Coleman Attorney at Law; Mark Collins US Army JAG; Colonel James Yonts; Colonel Paul Ciervo; Colonel Randy Glass; Colonel David Heintz; Colonel John Kenney; Colonel Stephen Kinder; Colonel M. Christopher Mattingly; Colonel Kenneth Musser; Colonel James Russell; COL Allen Taylor; Colonel Freddie Waggoner; numerous officers promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel; alumni whom have gone on to serve as Teachers, Business Executives, Bank Managers; Agents for the FBI; and in other honorable professions.