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New Mexico Military Institute is located in Roswell, New Mexico. Founded in 1891 by Col. Robert S. Goss as the Goss Military Institute, and inspired by Virginia Military Institute, NMMI includes a four-year high school and a two-year junior college. It is one of five Military Junior Colleges in the United States. NMMI first admitted women as cadets in 1977, although some women did attend as day students in the early years of the school.

The school's motto is "Duty, Honor, and Achievement"

The school's teams are the Broncos (Jr. College) and the Colts (High School). The school's colors are red, and black.

The school's Honor Code is "A Cadet Will Not Lie, Cheat, or Steal, Nor Tolerate Those Who Do."

One of NMMI's nicknames is "The West Point of the West."

The current Commandant of Cadets is Brigadier General Richard B. Geraci.

The Institute's cadets form a Corps of Cadets, which is organized into a single regiment. The Corps had been organized into other systems to reflect the different branch associations it had. NMMI is currently associated with the cavalry, and thus the regiment is made up of squadrons and troops (see below).

The regimental commander is a cadet Colonel. The RC is provided with his or her staff, who oversee important areas of the Corps, and are usually cadets who have attended the Institute for at least five years. The Regimental Staff includes: the Executive Officer (a cadet lieutenant colonel), the RC's second in command; the Regimental Operations Officer (a cadet major), who assists the RC in planning Corps activities; the Regimental Adjutant (a cadet major), who is responsible to the XO; the Regimental Inspector General (a cadet major) is responsible for conducting formal inspections and investigating cases of fraternization; the Provost Marshall (a cadet major) who is responsible for making and supervising a guard duty roster and oversees the cadet constabulary; and the Command Sergeant Major (a cadet CSM), who is responsible for the NCO chain of command. Additionally, there is the Honor Board Chairman (a cadet lieutenant colonel), who oversees the implementation of the cadet Honor Code and prosecutes all honor offenses. The HBC is assisted by an Honor and Ethics Sergeant Major, who is responsible for investigating all honor offenses.

The regiment itself divided into four squadrons, each commanded by a cadet lieutenant colonel, the squadron commander. The Squadron has its own staff with a squadron XO (cadet major), squadron adjutant (cadet captain) and squadron sergeant major (cadet sergeant major). The Squadron Commander oversees the squadron and implements the orders of the RC to his staff.

Further, each squadron is divided into three or four troops (although that number can change from time to time), which are the primary administrative units at NMMI. Currently all squadrons have a mix of ages (high school and college) and genders. From time to time the gender imbalance of the student body does require the formation of all-male Troops.

Each Troop consists of anywhere from 40 to 90 cadets, and is commanded by a Troop Commander (cadet Captain), and the troop staff usually consists of a 1st Sergeant (cadet 1st SGT) and an XO (cadet 1st LT). The Troop is divided into two platoons. Currently, there is one high school platoon and one college platoon per troop. The platoon is commanded by a Platoon Leader (cadet 2nd LT) who is assisted by a Platoon Sergeant (cadet SFC). There are usually 3-4 squads per platoon, roughly 8 cadets in each, with a Squad Leader (cadet Staff Sergeant) in charge with 1 or 2 team leaders. The Squad, Platoon, and Troop are the most basic elements in the Corps, and usually regarded as the most important.

• Norman Brinker, founder of Brinker International
• Gilbert A. Chavez, [1]Automotive e-commerce pioneer.
• Bill Daniels, cable television pioneer.
• Sam Donaldson of ABC News
• Ira B. Harkey Jr., awarded the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing
• Conrad Hilton, founder of the Hilton Hotel chain (caught breaking into the mess hall one night)
• Conrad Hilton Jr., American socialite
• Paul Horgan, two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author who also served as the school's librarian for a time.
• Peter Hurd, artist and friend of Horgan's who painted the controversial presidential portrait of Lyndon B. Johnson (also operated an on-campus distillery while a cadet)
• Jessica Jaymes, Adult-film actress
• Victor Lownes, former Playboy Enterprises executive
• Craig McNeil, an Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse prosecutor and contributor to the Village Voice. He once helped put a Mini Cooper sideways in the little Sally port.
• Hal Mumme, collegiate football coach
• Anthony Principi, the 4th United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs
• Chuck Roberts, news anchor for CNN Headline News
• Daniel Santiago, professional basketball player and member of the Puerto Rican national basketball team
• Roger Staubach, quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys
• Casey Urlacher, Arena League football player, brother of Brian Urlacher
• Major General Edwin Walker, target of Lee Harvey Oswald
• Frank D. White, governor of Arkansas (who defeated Bill Clinton after his first term)
• Owen Wilson, movie actor (Bottle Rocket, Shanghai Knights) (It was also rumored that he was kicked in the face by a horse while attending)
• Dr. Richard Weiss, Two-time slalom Olympic kayaker, first American to win a medal in men's kayak at a the World Championships when he won the silver on the Noce River in Mezzana, Italy, in 1993. NMMI Hall of Fame for 2001.

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