Military Review English Edition May-June 2016 | Page 110

Service is never about self. It extends to others—to those we are
helping, to those we are protecting, to those we are defending.
-Gen. Mark Milley
in 1986, Cadet Command assumed responsibility for
the nearly two hundred thousand students then participating in the college- and high school-level Army
ROTC programs.21 Maj. Gen. Robert E. Wagner, its
initial commander, immediately set the new organization on a path of transformation. Within a few years of
Cadet Command’s formation, Army ROTC improved
in many ways. Wagner stressed the importance of a
common standard for on-campus instruction and
added rigor to the summer camps that had long been a
feature of ROTC. Among Wagner’s many