06/04/2026
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Arcanum Native Named Bravo Company CO at VMI
Virginia Military Institute recently announced the Class of 2027 leaders of the 18th Regiment for the 2026-27 academic year. The Corps of Cadets regiment, organized to reflect an Army infantry
regiment, has three battalions. Each battalion has three companies, for a total of nine line companies—Alpha through India—plus the Regimental Band.
The new Bravo Company commander (CO) is Aiden Psczulkoski, a double major in physics and applied mathematics from Arcanum, Ohio, where he attended Arcanum-Butler High School. He
chose to come to VMI after he visited post when he was a freshman in high school. “My grandpa, as well as two alumni, brought me to see the Institute and I just knew that this was the
place I was meant to go.”
He applied for the CO position to serve the people who he has lived with and mentored throughout his time at VMI. “I feel like this is a great opportunity to give back to those who have
supported me, and to serve those I am entrusted with.” Previous regimental positions he has held include corporal and operations sergeant. Additionally, he is in the Honors Program, the rising
president of the Honor Court, a member of Sigma Pi Sigma and Omicron Delta Kappa, and served on his class’s Ring Figure committee.
He remembers fondly the initial “fall in” in Cameron Hall on his Matriculation Day. “To me, that was the beginning of a different, challenging, and rewarding chapter of my life that would
improve me as a person and as a leader,” he said. His role models are his parents, Ashley and Andrew Psczulkoski; his grandparents; and his good friend and mentor, Maj. Gen. Edward Mechenbier. His favorite quote comes from French surgeon and Nobel Prize winner, Alexis Carrel. “Man cannot remake himself without suffering,
for he is both the marble and the sculptor.”
After graduation, Psczulkoski plans to commission into the Air Force and pursue a career as a physicist.
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