Rick Stuart of Westminster was a member of the top placing Green Terror ROTC Ranger Challenge Team

2014 Oct 30

Rick Stuart, a senior at McDaniel College, was a member of the top placing Green Terror ROTC Ranger Challenge Team. Stuart is from Westminster, Md. (21157).

The Green Terror ROTC Ranger Challenge team took first place among 20 teams in the small ROTC program Black Division of the mid-Atlantic region brigade and third overall among 40 teams during the two-day event at Fort Pickett, Va.

Events included weapons assembly, leader reaction course, obstacle course, marksmanship, radio assembly, reconnaissance and others. The team competed against cadets from colleges and universities that included Duke, Johns Hopkins (#1), Georgetown (#2), Delaware, Maryland, UNC, Clemson, William & Mary, Wake Forest, N.C. State and others.

Army ROTC has been a tradition at McDaniel since 1919, and the Green Terror Battalion, which includes cadets from McDaniel, Hood and Mount St. Mary's, is one of the oldest ROTC programs in the nation. McDaniel also participates in the Post-9/11 GI Bill and Yellow Ribbon Program. McDaniel has consistently been recognized among the top 15 percent of Military Friendly Schools(R) in the nation.

For more information about McDaniel College, visit www.mcdaniel.edu.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.