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New commander named for Department of Military ScienceLt. Col. Lawrence A. Braue been appointed commander
of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Army detachment at
Iowa State University.
Braue has dual responsibilities as ROTC commander and chair of the
Department
of Military Science with a rank of full professor. He
is also the commander of the ROTC detachment at Drake University
in Des Moines.
He holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Central
Michigan State University.
Prior to coming to Iowa State, Braue was an assistant professor
of military science and executive officer of the ROTC unit at the
University of South Florida. He has also served as an operations
officer in Des Moines from 1997-2001 and has been stationed in Wausau,
Wis., and Honolulu, Hawaii. Braue joined the U.S. Army Reserves
in 1981 before being commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1986.
Iowa State's Department of Military Science and Army ROTC unit provide
a program of leadership development, which prepares college students
for service as officers in the U.S. Army. The ROTC program began
at Iowa State in 1919. There are approximately 125 cadets currently
enrolled in military sciences classes at Iowa State.
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