Three Commissioned As Army Officers

Cadet Andrew Bomar is administered the oath of office by Lt. Col. Alan Mooneyham to be commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army at a ceremony on Friday.

Three Sam Houston State seniors took oaths to serve as second lieutenants during the spring commissioning ceremony held Friday in the Kerper Courtroom in the Criminal Justice Center.

Cadets Andrew Bomar, David McCormick and Brian Tharp are all criminal justice majors.

Bomar, from Burleson, received the James C. Boswell Memorial Scholarship for three years at SHSU, as well as an Army ROTC two-year scholarship, and will graduate “summa cum laude.”

He received a reserve duty commission and will serve in the Signal Corps. He will attend Officer’s Basic Course at Ft. Gordon, Ga., in August and afterward will serve as a gold bar recruiter at SHSU.

Graduating as a “distinguished military student,” McCormick, from Houston, served as the cadet battalion command sergeant major, cadet company commander and Ranger Company commander.

He received an active duty commission, is branched Ordnance, and will temporarily serve as a cadre member at Cadet Command’s Warrior Forge this summer at Fort Lewis, Wash. Upon completion at Fort Lewis, McCormick will report to Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., where he will attend the Officer’s Basic Course in September.

Tharp, a Dallas native, enlisted in the Army Reserve in January 1998, completed basic training at Ft. Sill, Okla., and went to Maryland for Advanced Individual Training. In Huntsville, he was an SMP cadet at the 366 MP Det. 1, was a member of the Ranger Challenge Team, and served as the Cadet Battalion Operations Officer.

Tharp has received an Active Duty commission and is branched engineer. He will report to Officer’s Basic Course at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo., on May 16.

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SHSU Media Contact: Jennifer Gauntt
May 14, 2003
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