CAPT Brien Dickson

08/09/2021

Welcome Aboard to the SU NROTC Class of 2025! Before Friday watch this video to help prepare yourself for taking the Oath of Office as one of your first events of the Orientation. The oath you will take is " I, [name], do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God."
This is an amazing responsibility and I want you to be well informed of this commitment when you arrive. I look forward to seeing you on Friday!

06/23/2021

SU NROTC is excited about our incoming freshmen class including Darius Brown who made the news in South Caroline after earning a National Scholarship!

Darius Brown and Saniyah Drayton are graduating from West Ashley High School this month. Today the pair were recognized for their academic achievements. Between the two students they received $180,000 in scholarships to continue their education careers. Brown, the recipient of the NROTC National Pre...

05/24/2021

Great honor to participate in my first commencement at SU. Hats off to Bakari Sellers who delivered a memorable and inspiring address to the graduating class.

03/05/2021

Great video highlighting the USS Toledo under the ice.

01/05/2021

A good friend of mine, Roy Love, wrote a fantastic article on why any motivated young person would want to be a Naval Officer. I really can't put it better than he did. Take a look and be ready to be inspired.

By CAPT Roy Love, USN I can’t for the life of me understand why the Navy is not getting sufficient applicants for Navy ROTC scholarships. Each year, hundreds of scholarships...

12/30/2020

Great example of the NAVFAC Team working well with contractors using new approaches to solving long standing problems. This is just one building but represents a committment by the Navy to preserve our military heritage, protect the environment, and provide new high quality work spaces for our hard working security department.

SAN DIEGO – Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southwest Facilities Engineering and Acquisition Division (FEAD) Point Loma completed construction Oct. 29 on a renovation project to Naval Base Point Loma’s (NBPL) historic Building 158 that will now house the installation’s se...

12/09/2020

The USMC Commandant provides a tangible example of how the Navy-Marine Corps Team is rethinking warfare to deal with today's threat environment.

Today, every Marine is a rifleman. Tomorrow, they could be sub-hunters. The Marine Corps is all in on shifting its spending, personnel and operations to support the Expeditionary Advance Base Operations concept, which would spread out smaller units of Marines across vast expanses of ocean and island...

11/13/2020

MIDN Miller and MIDN Shelby started of the WWII Museum trip with a FBLive

10/28/2020

Taking in some fish watching time while waiting for a car repair.

10/19/2020

Excited about making SU NROTC even better. Staff and Midshipmen came in on Saturday for a field day taking our building up a level. @ Southern University and A&M College - Baton Rouge, LA

10/14/2020

Happy Birthday U.S. Navy from the campus of SU and LSU in the great state of Louisiana!

The Chief of Navy Reserve and Commander, Navy Reserve Force, shares his observations on 245 years of the U.S. Navy and 145 years of Navy Reservists.

09/16/2020

Netflix has released a documentary about the loss of the Challenger Space Shuttle in 1986. The building, R.E. McNair Hall is the namesake for one of the heroes, on board that fateful flight. Ronald McNair was an accomplished physicists before becoming an astronaut and mission specialist on the Challenger.

Challenger: The Final Flight, a four-part docuseries produced by JJ Abrams, retells an infamous tragedy from those who were there