A new Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program is headed to Roanoke College.

As Veterans Day approaches, Virginia Tech is honored to celebrate the service, dedication, and sacrifices of our nation’s veterans and military members with commemorative gatherings and other special events.

The Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets mobilized in a major way today to help recovery efforts in Giles County.

The VMI Cadets hosted their 9/11 Stair Climb today, the event took place at 5 p.m. Wednesday.

Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel. Lawrence Havird will assume the position after Colonel Adrian T. Bogart the third retired on June 30.

Incoming VMI Cadets eager to get a head start in their military career are taking part in a summer transition program.

North Cross fell to Benedictine, 34-7.

Cadets at a local high school will take on an important role at the NASCAR Cup Series NOCO 400.

There is a new space for VMI Cadets to hang out on Post.

Unique in Ukraine, the children at Volodymyr the Great school on the outskirts of Kyiv are training to become military cadets, starting at the age of 7.

2022 marks 25 years of women at VMI. The next generation of cadets are following paths carved for them by the women who came before. Paths that guide them along a more defined road to the leaders they aim to become.

The program is voluntary and is offered to all first-year Virginia Military Institute students who have committed to attend.

This weekend hundreds of Cadets at Virginia Military Institute will graduate in person.

LEXINGTON, VA. – Cadets are returning in waves to VMI for the spring semester and the Rockbridge County community is helping make sure they all are tested for COVID-19. Cadets will drive through a series of checkpoints to be swabbed and then hold in a parking lot for the results. If negative, they’re cleared to move back into barracks; however, if the test comes back positive they’re sent to a hotel to quarantine. As the VMI experience is set in closer-quarters than the typical college experience, VMI EMS Director Col. Jay Williams said this is a critical step. We felt it was smart to have one consistent process, one consistent procedure, that every cadet went through,” Williams said.

LEXINGTON, Va. – VMI recently announced plans to return to online learning before Thanksgiving, and for most cadets, this is a little like deja vu. Cadets were told to leave post back in the spring when the coronavirus pandemic first started and it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows. One cadet, in particular, was so determined to get his studies in that he finished his spring semester in a tent outside his parents' home in Pennsylvania. “I just started doing school in a tent and it actually turned out pretty well,” said VMI cadet William Taylor. When VMI lets out in November, Taylor said he’s likely to finish his semester in North Carolina where his brother lives so he can get reliable Internet.

LEXINGTON, Va. – VMI announced Thursday that the school will move to online classes the week of Thanksgiving. Binford Peay III said that academic instruction will move online beginning Monday, Nov. 23, in an effort to limit exposing cadets and families through the overlap of the pandemic and flu season. We must continue to work together to deliver on our mission,” said Peay. Cadets will return to post for the spring semester next year in 2021 on Jan. 17-18 and will begin classes on Jan. 21. Click here to read the full statement.

LEXINGTON, Va. – Final preparations are underway for Vice President Mike Pence to visit VMI in Lexington on Thursday. VMI’s post was buzzing on Wednesday with tents going up and roads shutting down ahead of Pence speaking to the school’s cadets. “We’re excited to hear what he has to say and pass on his wisdom to our cadets,” said Wyatt. “He’s somebody who’s served in multiple administrations and has a lot to share with our cadets and who understands what our cadets are going through,” said Wyatt. Pence is expected to start speaking to cadets around 2 p.m. WSLS will livestream his speech on wsls.com and the WSLS 10 Facebook page.

A West Point cadet reads the New Cadet Handbook on his first day at the U.S. Military Academy, Monday, July 13, 2020, in West Point, N.Y. The transition from civilian to West Point cadet is different for the Class of 2024 as the academy adapts to the pandemic, starting with Reception Day, or R-Day. Reception Day still ushers in an intense period of training that introduces new arrivals to the rigors of cadet life. I still think we have a very good plan to acculturate them to West Point and the Army, Buzzard said. At West Point, new cadets will be formally accepted into the Corps of Cadets after training.