Now a TROY Online student, Draven Summers spent six years in the Air Force before settling in Troy.
When Draven Summers looks back on his six years in the United States Air Force, he remembers the constant motion and working on aircraft across the world. Life moves a little slower these days—as slow as it can for a full-time student, full-time employee and new homeowner.
“Alabama feels very slow-paced compared to all that,”…
Officials from Troy University and Shaw Air Force Base celebrated a new partnership to offer teaching on base.
Troy University is now offering classes on-site for Airmen at Shaw Air Force Base in Sumter, South Carolina, as part of a new educational partnership.
The agreement, signed last fall, paved the way for TROY to begin teaching classes on base in January. The partnership was formally celebrated on Tuesday, June 17, with a signing…
The Air Force hopes its Junior ROTC Flight Academy will address the shortage of both commercial and military pilots. (TROY photo/Joey Meredith)
For the second year, TROY and SkyWarrior teamed up over the summer to host the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps Flight Academy.
SkyWarrior, the Pensacola-based flight school the University partners with for its Aviation Operations minor, delivered the training to 10 high school students from across the nation and from Puerto Rico.
Through the…
Troy University alumnus and retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Richard H. Boutwell will begin his new role with the University effective Jan. 1.
Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Richard H. Boutwell, a 1991 Troy University alumnus, has been named the University’s Senior Vice Chancellor for Advancement effective Jan. 1. His new role will include responsibility for governmental relations, development/alumni affairs, public affairs and strategic oversight of the University’s relationship with all branches of the military services.
A native…
