PHOTOS & VIDEO: Rep. Tulsi Gabbard Tours Army ROTC Facility at UH Mānoa, Mentors Cadets

Honolulu, HI—At dawn this morning, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) met with Lieutenant Colonel Kate Conkey, Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadre, and more than one hundred cadets enrolled in the college-based officer training program. She toured the Warrior Battalion facility on the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus, spoke with the cadets about her service in the Hawaiʻi Army National Guard and in Congress, servant-leadership, and the Army Values, and answered a series of questions from the soon-to-be graduates and Army officers.

B-Roll Video Footage is Available Here for Download

Click the images below to download photos from Rep. Tulsi Gabbard’s Warrior Battalion ROTC visit at UH Manoa.

Background

The Warrior Battalion is the only ROTC unit to ever be called to federal service—on December 7, 1941 cadets were made part of the Hawaiʻi Territorial Guard and assisted in guarding vital facilities on the island of Oʻahu, serving for a seven-week period.  There are currently 132 Army cadets in the program, and eighteen of them are combat veterans. Since its inception, fourteen cadets and two cadre members from the Warrior Battalion have paid the ultimate sacrifice in service:

World War II

SSG Grover Kazutomi Nagaji 
SGT Howard Mitsuru Urabe
SGT Jenhatsu Chinen
PVT Akio Nishikawa
PFC Hiroichi Tomita
SGT Daniel Betsui
SGT Robert Murata
MAJ Jack Johnson

Vietnam War

2LT Thomas Blevins
2LT Frank Rodriguez
LTC Karl Lange
1LT Brian Kong
CPT Kenneth Good

Global War on Terror

1LT Nainoa Hoe
1LT Jeremy Wolfe
1LT Johnathan Brostrom

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