19 ROTC members receive military commissions

Nineteen members of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Reserve Officer Training Corps received military commissions May 19-21.

Eleven cadets in Army ROTC were commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Army on May 19; four midshipmen in Navy ROTC received commissions May 20, three as ensigns in the U.S. Navy and one as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps; and four cadets in Air Force ROTC were commissioned second lieutenants in the U.S. Air Force on May 21.

Following is a list by hometown of new officers, with rank and service branch.

Nebraska

Auburn:

• 2nd Lt. Kathryn Hart Kudrna, Air Force

Grand Island:

• 2nd Lt. Paul Randolph Smith, Army

Gretna:

• 2nd Lt. Nader S. Afana, Air Force
• 2nd Lt. Miles Menard Hubert, Army

Lemoyne:

• Ensign Rylee Jean Babish, Navy

Lincoln:

• 2nd Lt. Markus Alexander Case, Air Force
• 2nd Lt. Jordan Patrick Coffey, Army
• 2nd Lt. Christopher Steven Karmazin, Army
• 2nd Lt. Roman Enrique Montes, Marine Corps
• 2nd Lt. Isaac Lucius Rippeteau, Air Force
• 2nd Lt. Jenifer Velazquez-Perfecto, Army

Omaha:

• 2nd Lt. Amy Grace Hughes, Army

Papillion:

• 2nd Lt. Michael Edward Press, Army

Waterloo:

• 2nd Lt. Thomas Lorenzo Kotschwar, Army

Elsewhere in the U.S.

Fort Leavenworth, Kansas:

• 2nd Lt. Chase Erhardt Allen, Army
• 2nd Lt. Drake Erhardt Allen, Army

Rosemount, Minnesota:

• Ensign Andrew George Plucker, Navy

Sioux Falls, South Dakota:

• Ensign Alexander Hamilton Muenster, Navy