About the founder of Pershing Rifles. It is the oldest continuously operating U.S. national women's college organization dedicated to drill. In the spring of 1924 it applied for affiliation with the Pershing Rifles, but the Nebraska organization refused. The mission of the National Society of Pershing Rifles is to: Development of successful officers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force. Cadets - The Pershing Rifles Group - Page 1 - Glendale Active membership is restricted to college students enrolled at an institution that hosts a Pershing Rifles company. Our website includes a list of all of the colleges or universities that host Pershing Rifles Companies, and a method for contacting each unit. Pershing Rifles Charlie Company 12th Regiment @ MIT Note: By tradition a National Commander is promoted to Lieutenant General/Vice Admiral if they serve a second term in office. The presence of Scabbard and Blade on the Nebraska campus probably prevented its growth as an officers' organization. Fatally wounded January 16, 1972 in Thua Thien, South Viet-Nam from injuries received in a non-combat related helicopter accident. It is the supporting corporation to Pershing Rifles which furnishes the Society with basic services such as insurance as well as legal, regulatory, and fiscal oversight. Pershing Rifles Company W-4 at The College of William & Mary may wear uniforms based on those of the Scots Guards as recognition of their role as the Queens' Guard, the college's ceremonial guard unit, twice mustered upon visits by Queen Elizabeth II to the college. Pershing Rifles - Home - Facebook Major Bailey was killed in action on September 26, 1942, on Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands and posthumously received the Medal of Honor for his valor that day. Headquarters Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, through June 1962, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, June 1962 through (approx) 1978 / University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, Headquarters Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona. Pershing Riflemen have served in all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces in every conflict since the SpanishAmerican War. Army Captain Jonathan D. Grassbaugh Company E-8 (Now T-8) Killed in action on April 7, 2007, in Zaganiyah, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device detonated as he conducted a combat logistics patrol. The six white stripes on the membership ribbon, from the wearer's right to left stand for; Devotion to Duty and Country, A Bold and True Heart, Readiness to Meet any Situation, Leadership, Military Proficiency and Scholarship. Purpose The Group is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes. It was now larger than its prewar strength. Army Captain Richard J. Hock Company F-1 - HHC, 2 Bn, 501st Infantry, 101 Airborne Division. Army First Lieutenant Phillip Lewis Lee A-1 Died of wounds in a stateside hospital on June 17, 1971, as a result of wounds from small arms fire in Vietnam to month earlier. Company/Squadron F-15 George Washington University, Washington, D.C. Company G-15 Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, Company H-15 Morgan State University, Baltimore, Maryland (now J-8), Company Q-15 Pennsylvania Military College, Chester, Pennsylvania (was Q-5), Company P-15 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (1960s, later E-15), Company R-15 University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, Company X-15 University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware (Founded: May 1969), Headquarters University of Tampa, Tampa, Florida/ Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, +Company A-16 Fort Valley State University, Fort Valley, Georgia, +Company B-16 Morehouse College.
