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The Georgia Military Institute (GMI) was established on 110 acres (0.45 km 2) in Marietta, Georgia, United States, on July 1, 1851. It was burned by the Union Army during the Civil War and was never rebuilt. The current GMI is a reactivation of the name for a Georgia National Guard Officer Candidate School (OCS) curriculum.
The name of the school was changed to Georgia Military College in 1900. Legislative acts of 1920 and 1922 severed the relationship with the University of Georgia and gave the local board total power over the operations of the school. In 1922 the method of electing members of the board of trustees and filling vacancies on the board was changed.
Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).
The University of North Georgia (UNG), also known as The Military College of Georgia, is located in Dahlonega, Georgia. Since its creation in 1873 as North Georgia Agricultural College, the college required undergraduate resident males to participate in the Corps of Cadets (the corps was optional for resident undergraduate females and all ...
The Woodward Story, A History of Georgia Military/Woodward Academy 1900-1990", by Robert Ballentine, published 1990 by Jostens Printing and Publishing; content used with permission of the copyright holder, Woodward Academy Inc., College Park, Georgia, USA. [3] Georgia Military Academy (GMA) was a private, college-preparatory military school ...
Georgia Military College President William Caldwell, who announced he is retiring, will speak in Athens on Nov. 7
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New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, New Mexico, founded in 1891, is a four-year high school and a two-year junior college. Valley Forge Military Academy and College, Wayne, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1928, offers a co-ed two-year junior college program, as well as a military boarding school for young men grades seven through twelve. It is ...