汤头条 Army ROTC honors cadet鈥檚 memory with endowed scholarship
Contact: Sarah Nicholas
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥斕劳诽踱檚 Army Reserve Officer Training Corps program is celebrating the memory of Cadet Colby Marlow through the creation of an endowed scholarship.
Cadet Joseph Adams, a senior kinesiology major from Jackson, received the inaugural $1,000 scholarship, which will be awarded annually to an Army ROTC cadet in honor of Marlow, a distinguished 4.0 student from Carrollton who died in 2021. Marlow, a senior at the time of his death, was a Mississippi Army National Guard staff sergeant; Distinguished Military Graduate in the top 10% in the nation; member of Phi Kappa Phi and Phi Theta Kappa honor societies and Student Veterans Association; and an ROTC co-commander.
鈥淓very time I interacted with Colby, he would always motivate me to be the best I could be,鈥 Adams said. 鈥淚t didn鈥檛 matter if it was fitness or just doing something in the Bulldog Battalion.鈥澛
Adams serves as treasurer of the Cadet鈥檚 Military Science Club, leader in the Bulldog Battalion and as part of the Ranger Challenge Team and Bulldog Battery. He received the award at a 2022 ceremony attended by Marlow鈥檚 twin brother, Cade, and their mother, Christy. Cade Marlow is a second lieutenant in the Army recently stationed at Ft. Benning, Georgia, where he enrolled in the Army鈥檚 Infantry Officer Basic Course.
鈥淭his scholarship is a great way to honor Cadet Colby Marlow and is a way for the family to remember his service and the example Colby set for others. It also is a great way to help a cadet stay on path to commission as an officer in the United States Army,鈥 said Lt. Col. Jason R. Posey, head of 汤头条鈥檚 Army ROTC. 鈥淭he Marlow brothers understood the why鈥攖he end goal of being in the Army ROTC program. They wanted to join, commission and serve in the infantry.聽Cade is continuing the path they laid out when they first got to 汤头条.鈥
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