Reserve Officer Training Corps records, 1890-1965.

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Reserve Officer Training Corps records, 1890-1965.

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The Army Reserve Officer Training Corps is Series one. Documents include military exams, some with the answers provided. Series two contains Division of Military Science Records, which includes information on early military uniforms, a cadets yearbook, reports, receipts, contracts, correspondence, military directives and orders. Series three documents the Air Force Officers Education Program created in the 1960s. Documents include a House of Representatives bill that created this program, curriculum development plans, news releases, correspondence and three scrapbooks. The scrapbooks contain photographs and news clippings of Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) activities and honors bestowed on members. Of note is one news clipping of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963.

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Oregon State University Libraries

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