Military
Virginia Tech and its Corps of Cadets have a long tradition of providing service to the military. Seven Medal of Honor recipients are alumni or former cadets at Virginia Tech.
- Col Julien E. Gaujot, Class of 1893 (only enrolled in 1889-1890), Awarded the Medal of Honor for actions on the Mexican Border in 1914, the only soldier ever awarded the Medal for actions of a peacekeeping nature. He was the brother of Antoine Gaujot
- Lt Col Antoine A.M. Gaujot, Class of 1900 (only enrolled in 1896-1897), Awarded the Medal of Honor for actions as an Army Corporal at the Battle of San Mateo during the Philippine-American War
- Sgt Earle D. Gregory, Class of 1923, Awarded the Medal of Honor for actions as an Army Sergeant during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive in World War I
- Sgt Herbert J. Thomas, Class of 1944, member of Virginia Tech's Athletic Hall of Fame, Awarded the Medal of Honor for action on Bougainville Island in World War II
- 1st Lt Jimmie W. Monteith, Class of 1944, Awarded the Medal of Honor for actions as an Army lieutenant at D-Day during World War II
- 2nd Lt Robert E. Femoyer, Class of 1944, Eagle Scout Awarded the Medal of Honor for actions as an Army Air Force B-17 Flying Fortress navigator on a bombing mission over Germany
- 1st Lt Richard Thomas Shea, Class of 1948, Awarded the Medal of Honor for actions as an Army First Lieutenant at the Battle of Pork Chop Hill during the Korean War
- Major Lloyd W. Williams, Class of 1907. to Williams has been attributed one of the more famous quotes of World War I: "Retreat? Hell! We just got here!"
- Lieutenant General Lewis A. Pick, USA, Class of 1914
- Lieutenant General Wallace H. Robinson, USMC, Class of 1940
- Lieutenant General John H. Elder, Jr., USA, Class of 1941
- Lieutenant General Joseph G. Wilson, USAF, Class of 1942
- Lieutenant General Howard H. Cooksey, USA, Class of 1943
- Lieutenant General Walter D. Druen, Jr., USAF, Class of 1951, Commander of Allied Air Forces Southern Europe and deputy commander in chief, U.S. Air Forces in Europe, Southern Area
- Lieutenant General Robert L. Moore, USA, Class of 1952, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Missile Command
- General Thomas C. Richards, USAF, Four Star General, Class of 1956, Deputy Commander in Chief of US European Command
- Lieutenant General Joseph R. Inge, USA, Class of 1969, Deputy Commander, United States Northern Command, and Vice Commander, U.S. Element, North American Aerospace Defense Command
- Lieutenant General William G. Boykin, USA, Class of 1971, Assistant Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence
- General Lance L. Smith, USAF, Class of 1969, Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command/North Atlantic Treaty Organization Supreme Allied Commander Transformation
- Rear Admiral Jody Breckenridge, USCG, Commander Eleventh Coast Guard District (2006-)
- Major Nidal Malik Hasan, Class of 1997, an Army psychiatrist - suspect in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valour, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“His ugliness was the stuff of legend. In an age of affordable beauty, there was something heraldic about his lack of it. The antique arm whined as he reached for another mug. It was a Russian military prosthesis, a seven-function force-feedback manipulator, cased in grubby pink plastic.”
—William Gibson (b. 1948)
“Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
—Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)