1 N ewsletter Fall 2016 GOLDEN BEARS. BEARS LEAD THE WAY! The University of California, Berkeley Army ROTC is excited to begin another new semester! From Fall contracting of outstanding scholarship recipients to the upcoming Commissioning of some senior Cadets on 17 December 2016, the Golden Bears are ready to lead America's next generation. UC BERKELEY ARMY ROTC Golden Bear Battalion VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE!
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NewsletterFall 2016
GOLDEN BEARS.
BEARS LEAD THE WAY!The University of California, Berkeley Army ROTC is excited to begin another new semester! From Fall contracting of outstanding scholarship recipients to the upcoming Commissioning of some senior Cadets on 17 December 2016, the Golden Bears are ready to lead America's next generation.
UC BERKELEY ARMY ROTC Golden Bear Battalion
VISIT OUR FACEBOOK PAGE!
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Golden Bears NOTE FROM CAL 6
Greetings Golden Bear Battalion Alumni, Family, and Friends!
We are excited to start a new school year with our largest freshman class in recent history. We just completed a short field training exercise at Camp Parks and the entire Battalion?s motivation and energy was outstanding!
To update you on the latest happenings in the program, let?s begin with the Spring commissions from May, when we were pleased to host COL Phil Deppert, Commandant of the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center at the Presidio of Monterey, as our guest speaker. We commissioned ten new Second Lieutenants at this ceremony - Joseph Daniszewski (AD - Armor), Douglas Kim (USAR ? Military Intelligence), Anjanay Kumar (AD - Military Intelligence), Albert Lai (AD ? Air Defense Artillery), Johnson Lamwatthananon (AD ? Infantry), Steven Montoya (CAARNG ? Military Intelligence), Ian Panlilio (CAARNG ? Infantry), Jacob Planchon (AD ? Field Artillery), Jason Rozal (CAARNG ? Military Police), and Anli Tran (AD ? Field Artillery).
For Cadet Summer Training, we had great success sending a total of 15 Cadets to various courses and cultural experiences ? achieving a 100% graduation rate at all training opportunities including 10 Cadets completing Advanced Camp and 3 Cadets completing Basic Camp at Fort Knox, KY. Cadets Hui, Monlux, Nepomuceno, and Robbins also completed the Cultural Understanding and Language Proficiency (CULP) program travelling to Albania, Malawi, Sri Lanka, and Thailand, respectively. Cadet Mendez earned his Airborne wings and Cadet Winter earned his Air Assault wings. Finally, Cadet Bulik-Sullivan travelled to Latvia and Lithuania to study Russian as part of Project Global Officer (GO). We are very proud of all of these accomplishments as our Cadets continue to grow the tradition of excellence of the Golden Bear Battalion.
UC BERKELEY ARMY ROTC Golden Bear Battalion
Golden Bear Battal ion
LTC Stephen Suhr (Professor of M i l i tar y Science)
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Golden Bears NOTE FROM CAL 6
At the start of this fall semester, we also commissioned two additional officers that had summer school requirements ? 2LTs Tony Chang (AD ? Chaplain Corps) and Sang Ko (AD- Signal Corps). This brought our Fiscal Year 2016 total to 14 commissions ? an historic number for the Golden Bear program and a great, positive reflection of our growing strength at UC Berkeley.
On the Cadre side, we bid a fond farewell to our Recruiting Operations Officer, Mr. Joe Margolies, who departed Berkeley to take a job in his hometown of Stockton, CA. After nearly three years with the program, we thank him for the indelible mark he has left on the program by recruiting such outstanding officer candidates and we wish him all the best moving forward. We also say goodbye to 2LT Johnson Lamwatthananon and 2LT Jason Rozal, who are both off to their BOLC training courses after spending a few months with the program as Gold Bar Recruiters. Thank you for all your hard work in support of the program! We?d like to extend a warm welcome to MAJ Ben Raphael, a recent Haas MBA Graduate, who has joined the program as a U.S. Army Reservist currently assisting with our Ranger Challenge team?s preparation for their upcoming competition and 2LT Albert Lai, one of our recent graduates, who will take over as our Gold Bar Recruiter for the remainder of the fall term.
Please do not hesitate to contact us or drop by the program anytime you are around campus ? we?d love to hear from you!
Bears Lead the Way!
LTC Steve Suhr
UC BERKELEY ARMY ROTC Golden Bear Battalion
Spr ing Com m issioing 2016
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SUMMER TRAINING!
Cadet Nicole Lam b at-tended Cadet Troop Leader Train ing (CTLT) where she worked closely wi th the Platoon Leader of a Transpor ta-t ion Platoon. She spent three weeks learn ing what i t m eant to be a Second Lieutenant in the United States Arm y.
UC BERKELEY ARMY ROTC Golden Bear Battalion
Cadet James Robbins at CULP Training in Thailand. With CULP, Cadet Robbins got to learn about a whole new culture and develop his military and cultural proficiencies.
Cadet Pam ela Lewes at FT Knox, Kentucky for Advanced Cam p th is sum m er the day before her graduation day. "I t 's always sunny at Knox! " r em arks CDT Lewes. "No pun in tended . I t was a great tr ain ing exper ience. I don 't th ink I 'm out of the woods yet..."
Cadet Monty Monlux in describing his experience in Malawi stated, "CULP mission training with the Malawian Defense Force. They're a professional military in one for the poorest countries in Africa with a lot of combat experience while peace keeping in other countries."
Cadet Franco Hui attends CULP in Albania. CDT Hui was with a team of US Cadets and Albanian NCOs of all branches. Through CULP, Cadet Hui garners greater cultural and literate proficiency.
Pictured to the r ight: Cadet Benjam in Aubar t attends CLC (Advanced Cam p) at FT Knox, Kentucky. Pictured are the exhausted Cadets after a fu l l n ight of operat ions. Unable to take another step, the Cadets took a m uch needed rest before cont inuing their m ission to capture key object ives. The Cadets m arched m ore than 8 m i les.
To the left: Cadet Michael Nepomuceno at Summer Training 2016. There was a 100% graduation rate among all Cadets who attended.
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SUMMER TRAINING
In the words of CDT M endez: "This summer I had the privilege to attend Airborne School hosted at Fort Benning, Georgia. Here I was given the necessary training that would prepare me to perform five static line jumps out of a C130 airplane. This was a three week training course broken down into three parts: ground week, tower week, and jump week. Throughout this course I learned a variety of skills such as rigging a T-11 parachute and performing proper parachute landing falls. All this training would come together in the final week where I would execute three hollywood jumps, a mass exit jump, and a combat equipment jump in order to earn my parachutist badge and graduate from this course. "
RANGER CHALLENGECadet Zachary Winter is the Captain of the Ranger Challenge Team this Fall! Cadet Winter has also attended Air Assault School this summer, and continues to be a positive and outstanding addition to the team. Bears Lead the Way!
UC BERKELEY ARMY ROTC Golden Bear Battalion
CDT Ernesto Mendez at Airbone School.
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FALL EVENTS
2016
(From left down to r ight top - bottom : Li eu ten an ts Chan g an d K o get com -m issioned (top left), the Golden Bear Battal ion takes their f i r st Ar m y Physi cal Fi tn ess Test (bottom left featur ing star r unner Cadet Tr ier M or t lock ), and we also just had our f i r st FTX at Cam p Parks (top r ight corner ). The Golden Bear Battal ion is proud to have a
couple Schol ar sh i p r e-ci p i en ts who contracted ear ly th is fal l (r ight second picture). W e are also proud and sad to say Farewel l to our ROO - M r . Joe M ar gol i es (m iddle r ight). Lower r ight is con -t r act i n gs of the Chae Br other s - Ryan an d W i l l i am Chae [on e n ot p i ctu r ed ] as w el l as Cadet Shyan n e Am oyo
(bottom r ight)). Upcom i n g even ts i n cl ude: Ranger Chal lenge Com peti t ion in San Diego, Com bat W ater Survival Test, Fal l FTX to FT H unter -Liggett , Tr i -Service M i l i tar y Bal l , and Fal l De-cem ber Com m i ssi on i n gs of Cadets Lew es, Robbi n s, Nepom ucen o, Tr uon g, an d Ayon on 17 Decem ber 2016 as Second Lieutenants in the United States Arm y.
UC BERKELEY ARMY ROTC Golden Bear Battalion
Bears Lead the Way!
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Golden Bear Bat tal i on
Cal A r m y RO T C
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Ber keley, CA 94720
Ph on e: 510 - 643 - 7682
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