MISSION:

The mission of the Naval Reserve Officers' Training Corps (NROTC) is to develop NROTC students morally, mentally, and physically to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, honor, and loyalty. This is done in order to commission college graduates as officers who possess a basic professional background and who are motivated toward careers in the Naval service. These college graduates have the potential for future development in mind and character so as to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship, and government.

HISTORY:

The Navy department, realizing that a reserve of qualified officers would be needed in the expansion incidental to an unforeseen emergency, established the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps in 1926. Since then the program has steadily expanded. The NROTC Unit at the University of Michigan was first established in July 1940, with an initial enrollment of 110 students. In 1967, the Navy, the University of Michigan and Eastern Michigan University signed a cross-town agreement whereby EMU students could participate in the Michigan NROTC program.