On any other day besides Wednesday, we're hard to spot among the regular Albany crowd. Cadets attend classes, hang out in the Campus Center, and do all the other stuff students do. Some of us are prior service and have gone through basic training. Most of the company joins as a freshman and takes a 4 year program. A few get involved a little later and attend an Army orientation during the summer before their junior year to make up for what they have missed.
Some sophomores opt to 'compress' the first two years into one program to keep their summer free.
The UAlbany Color Guard team attends home games and continues the tradition of guarding the American Flag. Here is this years Color Guard with the American, New York State, and University flags. At Tyler Arms, a nearby veterans home, cadets participated in several community service projects to improve the quality of life in the Albany area. Here we see the final stages of the formation of a garden ready to be planted from what was previously untilled land. The Battalion ski trip took place in early 1999.