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Office of the Commandant: Aggie Cadets, in light of the recent terrorist attack against an ROTC unit at Old Dominion University on 12 March, and the ongoing threat environment associated with Operation Epic Fury, the Texas A&M University Police Department (UPD) will begin providing armed officer overwatch during all Corps formations and selected activities. UPD will also increase patrols in the vicinity of Corps buildings and facilities, including the TRIGON. The entire Corps will receive an active shooter brief in Duncan Dining Hall on 17 March. The Texas A&M University Operations Team and UPD are sharing information with local and federal law enforcement. Standby for updates as the situation develops. Aggie Spirit.
This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.
This is a community advisory, not a Clery emergency notification — the threat was not local to College Station; the letter activates institutional posture changes in response to an external attack on a peer ROTC unit
Naming 'the TRIGON' (the iconic A-shaped Corps headquarters building) and Duncan Dining Hall is operationally specific: it tells cadets exactly which structures will have visible UPD presence
Operation Epic Fury is the name reportedly given to the 2026 US-Iran military operations; the letter frames the Corps as a credible target precisely because of cadet military-affiliation
The March 12 attack on Old Dominion University's ROTC unit is the proximate cause; that incident is treated in the Corps's response framework as a peer-on-peer attack that demands solidarity-of-posture
Texas A&M's Corps of Cadets is the largest non-service-academy military training organization in the US (~2,400 cadets), making any threat-environment posture change among the most consequential in higher education