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Background
The ROCKS, Inc. is a
non-profit [501c(4)] organization comprised of active duty, reserve,
retired and former commissioned officers of the U.S. Armed Forces,
widows and widowers of deceased members, and other uniformed services.
The organization was formed to provide professional and social
interaction/development to strengthen the officer corps. In addition to
the R.C. Cartwright Scholarship Fund, the "Leadership
Outreach" program provides the opportunity for teams consisting of
ROCK members to visit Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
to provide professional career development guidance to ROTC students.
HISTORY
During the mid 1960s, a group of Army officers assigned to the Command
and General Staff College (CGSC) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, began to
meet informally in order to get to know each other better. Many of these
officers had known each other in college or during other assignments.
They, of course, had one additional thing in common at the time – how
to "survive" at Fort Leavenworth. The group jokingly dubbed
itself the "BLUE GEESE," a term well known at CGSC as the
vehicle used to convey a special assignment to a student officer. When
the school year ended, the group discovered that many were being
assigned to the pentagon and other places in the greater Washington
area.
Upon reaching Washington, several informal meetings followed.
However, the emphasis was modified to deal with survival in the National
Capitol Region and to address other issues of interest to the members.
During the years which followed, many officers were reassigned in and
out of the Washington area so the group continued to grow. The need for
a more structured organization was also seen, so a formal meeting was
held on October 9, 1974, to get the group formalized. Those present
decided to call themselves the "No Name Club."
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