Redbird Battalion alum inducted into ROTC Hall of Fame

Illinois State University alum Col. Mark Jackson ’87, of Frankfort, Illinois, was selected May 12 as an inductee into the 2016 inaugural class of the U.S. Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corp (ROTC) Hall of Fame.

Iraq War vet turns tragedy into comedy

Steve Rice onstage at Laugh Factory

In December 2003, a roadside bomb in Iraq turned U.S. Army 1st Lt. Stephen Rice’s left foot into hamburger. Nine years later, Rice ’02 was onstage at the Laugh Factory in L.A. joking about it.