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Army Cadets Matthew C. Haas and Nicholas P. Miller have graduated from the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps Leader's Training at Fort Knox, Ky. The four-week course is a leadership internship for cadets that can lead to the goal of becoming an Army officer.

College students experience and examine the Army without incurring an obligation to serve in the Army or ROTC, and are eligible to receive two-year college scholarship offers and attend the Advanced ROTC Course at their college.

Cadets are evaluated during classroom and field training exercises to determine their officer potential in leadership abilities and skills.

The cadets are trained to have a sound understanding of traditional leadership values during the challenging, motivating hands-on training.

The training develops well-disciplined, highly motivated, physically conditioned students, and helps improve the cadets' self-confidence, initiative, leadership potential, decision making, and collective team cohesion.

The cadets receive training in fundamental military skills, Army values, ethics, Warrior ethos, basic rifle marksmanship, small arms tactics, weapons training, drill and ceremony, communications, combat water survival training, rappelling, land navigation, and squad-level operations field training.

Haas, a student at Temple University, Philadelphia, is the son of Ann and Roger Haas of Allentown. He is a 2010 graduate of Parkland High School.

Miller, a student at Valley Forge Military College, Wayne, is the son of Michele A. Varricchio of Allentown. He is a 2013 graduate of Allentown Central Catholic.