Marine Military Academy - Pass In Review Yearbook (Harlingen, TX)

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fi School Troop Handlers Drill Instructor iegvffaf 'N ' --ur L - i:+ ei CT t' .XJ ij f fr l 'X-X ,.,..--Q Sgt Maj Herman C. Bruton, USMC QRetj SgtMaj Bruton, a native Texan, enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1941 and is a veteran of Vforld XWar II and Korea. He retired from the Corps in 1961 and went into business. He came to the Academy in 1967 from Jesuit High School, New Orleans. where he had been an instructor in the USMCJROTC unit. Egger Gunnefl' Sergeant A. Davis, Troop Handler fl.ower Schoolj et Staff Sergeant S. Henricks, Troop Handler fLower Schoolj

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Lower C The Lower School. grades 7 and 8, was established at the Academy this' year, This addition gives the Academy a greater depth in educational and military training. The 18 cadets who are in the Lower School had little trouble adjusting to a well regimented life They participated in the plebe system, and, after acceptance as old cadets are subject to a similar disciplinary system as the Upper School cadets. D T. Belber I. Huston M. Conrad G. Faust J. Drake L. Laalte D. Dunkin R. Robinson Fitzgerald J. Trevino T. Kave J, McKeever M. Moore G. Wilson

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t United States l .fi X , AQKSRXX uf110f RCSSYVC Qfllt 2 ' Www Militaiy l at 1 miaw' ! I W Li? The Marine Corps Junior ROTC Unit at the Marine Military Academy was activated under legislation which authorizes the U.S. Marine Corps to establish junior ROTC Units at schools across the nation. There are two types of units authorizedg one is a four-year course in military academies, and the other is a three-year course in high schools. In November, 1966, the Academy was the first to be designated for the four- year program. As of this date only one four-year program and fifteen three year programs have been established. Major Austin stresses a point in a class on military 1eaderShiP 'Doc' Anderson demonstrates how to treat an ankle fr acture on Cadet Parnell.