Black Hawk helicopters land on APSU campus
(Posted Sept. 21, 2018)
On Friday morning, two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters landed on the Austin Peay State University campus for a special, joint training exercise between the University’s Governors Guard ROTC program and the Tennessee National Guard. The helicopters landed on the Dunn Center lawn around 10 a.m., and APSU cadets spent the next few hours conducting loading and off-loading training.
A similar training took place last April when three Tennessee National Guard helicopters transported Austin Peay’s ROTC cadets to Milan, Tennessee. The University’s Governors Guard ROTC program is one of the best programs in the nation, having won an unprecedented seven MacArthur Awards. That award, presented by Cadet Command and the Gen. Douglas MacArthur Foundation, recognizes the top eight programs in the country each year. The award is based on a combination of the achievement of the school’s commissioning mission, its cadets’ performance and standing on the command’s National Order of Merit List and its cadet retention rate.