C Co. cadets are mostly students attending the University at Albany in Albany, New York. We also have cadets training with us who are enrolled at nearby colleges, such as the College of Saint Rose. If you walk around campus on a Thursday, you're likely to see at least a few of us wearing ACUs (Army Combat uniforms -- the digital camouflage pattern) or the battalion's green t-shirt. On any other day, we're hard to spot among the regular Albany crowd. Cadets attend classes, hang out in the Campus Center, and do all the other stuff students do. Some of us are prior service and have gone through basic training and maybe have even deployed to a combat zone. Most of the company joins as a freshman and takes a 4 year program. A few get involved a little later and attend an Army Leadership course during the summer before their junior year to make up for what they have missed. Some sophomores opt to 'compress' the first two years into one year to keep their summer free. We have many options and just about anyone with a neat haircut and a clean-shaven face on campus could be in ROTC and you wouldn't know it.