California State University, Fresno, Special Collections Research Center

Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Records, 1952-1998

Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Records, 1952-1998

Summary

Creators:
Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps
Language:
English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Records, Sanoian Special Collections Library, California State University, Fresno.

Background

Scope and content:

The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps records measure 3 linear feet and date from 1952 to 1998. These records include scrapbooks, photo albums and yearbooks of AFROTC Detachment 035 as well as scrapbooks from Angel Flight.

Biographical / historical:

It is not clear when Detachment 035 of the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps was originally established at Fresno State College (now California State University, Fresno) but the earliest documentation of the unit dates back to February 5, 1952.

The unit was originally established in order to offer the option of two years of basic military training to all physically fit male undergraduates no less than fourteen years of age, and an advanced class in military training for the remainder of the undergraduate course. The unit's first year of operations started with eighty-four cadets. Detachment 035 was the first unit in the United States to have a woman enroll in a lower division course of Air Science as well as the first to admit community college students to its program when it accepted fifteen men from Fresno City College.

On December 5, 1980, the detachment was awarded the Air Force Oustanding Unit award by Colonel Charles H. Wilson, the Western Area Commander.

There was also a women's auxiliary to the Air Force ROTC called Angel Flight. These women raised money for events such as balls and field days enjoyed by Angel Flight members and the men in the AFROTC.

Acquisition information:
The records were donated by the AFROTC in 1999.
Physical description:
3 linear feet

Access and use

Restrictions:

The collection is open for research.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) Records, Sanoian Special Collections Library, California State University, Fresno.

Location of this collection:
5200 North Barton Avenue, M/S ML 34
Fresno, CA 93740-8014, US
Contact:
(559) 278-2595
specialc@listserv.csufresno.edu
Website
Detachment 035
Containers:
Box Box 1
Contents
Background paper on Detachment 035, 1997
Class lists, 1979-1997
Photo albums
Contents
1984
1985
1989
Scrapbooks
Contents
1952
1958 [oversize: shelved in box 4]
1970
Containers:
Box Box 2
1972-1973 (2 scrapbooks)
1975-1976
1978-1980
1980
1980-1981
Yearbooks
Contents
1995
1998
Angel Flight
Containers:
Box Box 3
Contents
Scrapbooks
Contents
1963
1965-1966
Other descriptive data:

[oversize: shelved in box 4]

1968
1968
1969
Oversize:
Containers:
Box Box 4
Contents
Scrapbooks
Contents
AFROTC, 1958
Angel Flight, 1965-1966