Jim Bridger BN
Room 106
In 1916, the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Jim Bridger Battalion was officially established. The battalion was named after famous frontiersmen Jim Bridger.
Despite the growing popularity of the Agriculture College of Utah’s (USU) ROTC, the program found itself at risk of being disbanded. Once WWII ended, the school considered shutting down the program entirely until it received a letter from General George C. Marshall demanding that the ROTC program be reinstated immediately.
By 1949 the ROTC Jim Bridger Battalion had over 2,200 cadets and was officially declared “The West Point of the West” by the U.S. War Department due to its massive number of graduating cadets, which was second only to the West Point Military Academy located in Orange County, New York.
*Note: All bios are current and up-to-date as of Summer 2022.