CPT Grassbaugh was a student at Johns Hopkins University and a member of the Blue Jay Battalion (BJBN) from 1999-2003. He commissioned as an Active-Duty Armour Officer and went on to become a beloved husband. He became an Army Ranger in April of 2004 and was assigned to the 5th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd...

Last week our c/BC CDT Jackson Hall attended the George C. Marshall Leadership and Awards Seminar in Ft. Knox, KY. The GCM Leadership and Awards Seminar is the capstone leadership development event for U.S. Army Cadet Command. It recognizes the top Cadets from each of the 274 Senior ROTC programs and from the United States...

This past week was the Becoming Everything You Are (BEYA) STEM conference, which is a three-day learning, networking, celebrating excellence, and showcasing STEM career opportunities event for African American STEM students. During the conference one of our very own, Cadet Mikaela Furman a Senior Mechanical Engineering major accepted her 4-year scholarship that was presented by...

The Blue Jay Battalion have been busy this Fall semester! From early morning physical training (PT) sessions or rucks, weekly labs, ranger challenge competition, our annual turkey bowl game against the greyhound battalion, executing the fall field training exercise (FTX) to hosting our VETERAN’S pt event, and wrapping up the semester with our award ceremony,...

Last month the Blue Jay Battalion sent our Ranger Challenge (RC) team to Fort Barfoot, VA to compete in the annual 4th Brigade Ranger Challenge Competition! Our Cadets have been working hard every day since our semester started to practice for this event and all those early mornings paid off! These Cadets showed a phenomenal...

We are so glad you are here! We ended our second spring semester by commissioning eight new second lieutenants, sending our MS-3 cadets to cadet summer training (CST) at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and sending numerous cadets to DOD internships and military schools. At CST, the MS-3 Cadets were able to show case all of the...

Cadet Summer Training (CST) This past summer, rising MS4s graduated from Cadet Summer Training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, a 35-day mandatory training event where cadets were evaluated and challenged on their leadership capabilities. Cadet training involves rifle qualification, land navigation testing, an obstacle course, three ruck marches, the ACFT fitness test, CBRN gas chamber, and...

Congratulations to our 8 newest Second Lieutenants ! You all have worked so hard in our Battalion to get to this point, we are so proud of you this is just the beginning. With great ceremonies come with great guest speakers, and this years ceremony did not disappoint. Lieutenant General Laura Potter delivered this years...

Check out the great things JHU Cadets accomplished in January and February of 2022. Welcome back from Winter Break!

Over the Presidents Day weekend we sent our Ranger Challenge team to Fort A.P. Hill to compete in the Army ROTC 4th Brigade Ranger Challenge Competition. Ranger Challenge is a 10 Cadet team that competes against the other 37 Army ROTC programs across 4th Brigade (South Carolina / North Carolina / Virginia / West Virginia...