The tight end we signed today, Compton, attended NMMI. He’s not the first we’ve recruited who went there. Curiosity got the best of me and I thought “What the h*&L is NMMI?” Turns out, they bill themselves the “West Point of the West.” That does seem like a stretch but here’s the description of the school from their web site for anyone curious about the place and why we’d be recruiting football players from there.
"Located in Roswell, New Mexico, the New Mexico Military Institute offers a rich history and tradition of educating tomorrow’s leaders through a program of strong, challenging academics, leadership preparation, and character development. Known as “The West Point of the West,” NMMI remains the only state-supported co-educational college preparatory high school and junior college in the United States. Serving the educational needs of an international student population, the Institute has strict admissions standards that yearly result in an enrollment of approximately 1,000 students who come from 45 states, 2 US territories (Puerto Rico and American Samoa), and 35 foreign nations."
I drove past it when I was working on an oil rig south of Carlsbad, NM. Drove up to Roswell to check it out, NMMI is right off the main road if I remember right. I had never heard of it before then.
It’s a military high school and junior college. Its junior college offers an Army ROTC program that permits its graduates to be Commissioned in the Reserve Component; they have to finish a Bachelor’s degree if they want to be Commissioned Active Duty or advance beyond the rank of LT in the reserve component.
I knew a guy years ago that played one year of HS football there before transferring to Clements.
My uncle went there in the late 40s before going on to USC and a long successful career as a EE in SoCal. Good school
It is in Roswelland designed to look like West Point, Actually an attractive place.
Roger Staubach played for NMMI before transferring to The Naval Academy.
Their High School is 4A and plays in a District with Portales, Lovington ( home of Brian Urlacher), Ruidoso, and Morales. This routinely is the toughest 4Adistrict in New Mexico.
Yep there are a small amount of junior colleges that commission you into reserve and I believe some are 1LT after graduating with their BS. They also work in position at some ROTC programs.
Was your uncle there during the incident in '47?
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Roswell, of course, is home to The UFO Museum and the annual UFO Festival in July.
Completely goofy it is fun and I recommend that everyone go to it once.
Not twice. Once is enough.
Then head South to Carlsbad Caverns, Simply awesome. Then go boating and swimming in The Pecos River Park in Carlsbad. Great fun!
Not familiar with the incident
Referring to: What Really Happened at Roswell
Haha that might explain his eccentricities. He once placed directional microphones at the corners of his property to detect when helicopters were “violating his airspace” 
Great guy, worked in the defense industry for many years. Helped develop the sidewinder missile among other weapons. Still a live wire at 89
Interesting side note. In the summer of 45, he and my dad were sleeping on the screened porch in (now) truth or consequences nm. Early in the morning, it got bright so they got up. A minute or so later it was dark again so they went back to sleep (dumbass teenage boys - it’s a bug not a feature). That was the Trinity site test 70 miles NE of them. Slept through the after effects of a nuclear test 
That’s good stuff thanks for sharing 
Yeah. Roger Staubach is most famous sports alumni. I live an hour from there and have driven by/through several times. Nice, but older facilities.
My dad went there before going into the Air Force and serving during the Korean War. I went by there a few years ago when my wife and I were in Roswell. It’s a nice place.
They beat the crap out of Blinn, that’s all I know
New Mexico is full of strange military projects, I lived there in middle school.
Giant EMP testing facility, Albuquerque, New Mexico (1972-1980), still remains today. https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/atlas-i
Nuclear Facility inside of the Monzano Mountains, connected by under ground tunnel to the airport for loading nuclear weapons. Manzano Base - United States Nuclear Forces
Sandia National Laboratories
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Future Test site of Solar/Thermal energy
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Trinity Test Site (1945) Trinity Site - White Sands National Park (U.S. National Park Service)
White Sands National Park is not near Trinity Test site(which I have been to).
They are at least 100 miles apart. As the crow flies.
By car it is about 140 miles.
The 1954 movie “Them” helped create that fiction.
Yeah, Alamagordo. Billy the kid?