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Benjamin Wichelt
  • biochemistry
  • Class of 2015
  • Bennington

Benjamin Wichelt of Bennington among 19 ROTC cadets to receive military commissions May 8-9

2015 May 6

Benjamin M. Wichelt of Bennington is among nineteen cadets in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Reserve Officer Training Corps who will receive military commissions in ceremonies May 8 and 9 at the Nebraska Union, 14th and R streets. Rooms will be posted.

Wichelt will be commissioned second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force.

Seven cadets in Air Force ROTC will be commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Air Force at 6 p.m. May 8; eight cadets in Army ROTC will be commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army at 1 p.m. May 9; and four cadets in Navy ROTC will receive commissions at 1:30 p.m May 9, two as ensigns in the U.S. Navy and two as second lieutenants in the U.S. Marine Corps.