Current professor of military to leave CSC for new position

Army Major Raymond Phillips, associate professor of military science and 2003 CSC graduate, will be leaving his position as an ROTC instructor at CSC on Nov. 4.

Phillips received orders to fill a position in Lincoln as the new facilities, maintenance, and construction officer for the Nebraska National Guard. His duties at the college are ending due to a National Guard directive stating that technicians could no longer instruct ROTC courses, he said. Phillips has taught military science and leadership at CSC since Fall 2008, starting with six cadets. In the last five years he has seen the ranks of the program swell to today’s 34 cadets.

Major Jeremy Bryan, associate professor of military science, was transferred to CSC at the beginning of the semester from the Mt. Rushmore Army ROTC battalion in Rapid City, S.D., where he has served in various capacities since 2006.

Bryan, a 2001 South Dakota School of Mines graduate, has been helping Phillips teach the 10 MSL courses offered through ROTC, and will assume the primary instructor role once Phillips leaves.

Bryan will be assisted by 1st Lt. Nate Reicks, an active duty National Guard officer and 2011 University of Nebraska at Kearney graduate. Riecks has been assigned one-year orders to teach ROTC, and will receive additional instructor training at Ft. Knox, Ky., in December.