Aug 30, 2015 1 min read

Garett H. Pyle, an Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) cadet at Washington and Jefferson College, Washington, Pa., has graduated from the Cadet Leader Course (CLC) at Fort Knox, Ky. CLC is a 30-day summer training event focused on training cadets to solve complex leadership issues and problems at the company level.

Cadets arrive at CLC with a baseline of military skill sets; the cadets also have developed critical thinking and problem solving abilities during the academic years. CLC builds upon the work accomplished on campus and develops the cadet’s small unit leadership ability in a tactical environment.

The leadership experience supports continued cadet development during the senior year of the program. Cadets usually attend CLC between their junior and senior years of college, and they must complete the course to qualify for commissioning. Upon successful completion of the course, the ROTC program, and graduation from college, cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army, Army National Guard, or Army Reserve.

Pyle is the son of Debbie R. Hager-Pyle of Gibbon Glade. He is a 2012 graduate of Uniontown Area High School.