Beginning in 1918, University of Wyoming President Aven Nelson continued the tradition of a land grant institution’s participation in military preparedness by allowing the school to house 250 men enrolled in the students’ Army Training Corps.
This program, along with the earlier artillery cadet corps, helped establish a tradition of student military service. Opportunities included the Army Special Training Program, which operated as a flight school during the Second World War, and the Air Force Reserve Officers Training Corps, which is still active on campus today.
Learn more about the history of military preparedness at the University of Wyoming.