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The Hilltopper Army ROTC Program commissioned 23 graduates as second lieutenants in a ceremony Friday afternoon at Diddle Arena.

Cadets commissioning were (name, hometown, first duty assignment): Madison Alexander of Franklin, assigned to Kentucky National Guard in Frankfort; Justin Bratcher of Owensboro, assigned to Fort Jackson, South Carolina; Connor Breece of Nashville, Tennessee, assigned to Laurens, South Carolina; Joseph Carter of Tompkinsville, assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia; Grant Denbaugh of Murfreesboro, Tennessee, assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia; Jadon Douglas of Hardyville, assigned to Kentucky National Guard in Owensboro; Thomas Emberton of Frankfort, assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia; Jacob Goldman of Owensboro, assigned to Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Ethan Gordon of Elizabethtown, assigned to Fort Campbell; Hunter Hatfield of White House, Tennessee, assigned to Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Steven Huffman of Severna Park, Maryland, assigned to Fort Hood, Texas; Matthew Legendre of Elizabethtown, assigned to Fort Gordon, Georgia; Andrew Manwell of Louisville, assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia; Thomas Pelkey of Rochester, Minnesota, assigned to Fort Rucker, Alabama; John Provost of Brandenburg, assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia; Ethan Reynolds of Raven, assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia; Saul Sandefur of Carlisle, Indiana, assigned to Fort Knox; Faith Smith of Scottsville, assigned to Rio Rancho, New Mexico;  Shane Smith of Shepherdsville assigned to Kentucky National Guard in Cynthiana; Tyler Swindell of Marietta, Georgia, assigned to Laurens, South Carolina; Dameon Walker of Lexington, assigned to Kentucky National Guard in Glasgow; Collin Watson of Campbellsville, assigned to Kentucky National Guard in Glasgow; Olivia Wilson of Ekron, assigned to Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.

• More: Commencement preview; Commencement website; photo gallery

Contact: ROTC, (270) 745-4293