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Senior Army ROTC was established the College of Mines and Metallurgy at El Paso, Texas, effective 1 July 1948 as an Artillery ROTC unit (GENERAL ORDERS NUMBER 98, Headquarters Forth Army, fort Sam Houston, Texas, dated 16 June 1948). In 1949 the Texas College of mines and Metallurgy’s name was changed to Texas Western College (TWC) and again in 1966 to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The initial ROTC headquarters was located in a large two story Quonset hut just north of Kidd field. |