the highest possible unit award for a school JROTC program, for over a decade. Due to its high ranking, TMI cadets can apply for places at United States Service academies without the congressional recommendation usually required. The battalion is organized into three companies: Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie. Due to expansion in the 2014-2015 school year a fourth company, Delta, was briefly added, but as the amount of participants in the program fell, and the number of cadets not being enough to justify the existence of a four companies, it was removed before the start of the 2015-2016 school year. Companies are completely organized by the students, with each company having a senior company commander and a junior first sergeant. The companies are divided into two platoons, with two or three squads in each platoon. The Corps is run by a staff consisting entirely of junior and senior Cadets. It sponsors a bagpipe band, a color guard, a sabre guard, a drill team and a rifle team Alumni Academia and science Robert M. Ayres, former Vice-Chancellor of the University of the South Light Townsend Cummins, historian (did not graduate) Cresson Kearny, inventor and expert on nuclear survival Ray Keck (Class of 1965), president of Texas A&M International University in Laredo, Texas David Scott, astronaut, pilot of the Gemini 8 and Apollo 9 space flights, commander of Apollo 15 and became the seventh person to walk on the Moon Lewis Sorley, military historian The arts Justin Blanchard, actor (Broadway ("Journey's End"), television ("Law and Order:SVU") and film) Dan Blocker, actor and producer, co-star of the Bonanza television series Julian Onderdonk, painter, known for Texas landscapes, called the "Father of Texas Painting" "Wammo", DJ, beat poet and lead vocalist for the Asylum Street Spankers Business and Ranching John B. Armstrong, manager of the King Ranch James A. Baker Jr., partner of the law firm Baker Botts; father of James Baker Sam Barshop, founder of La Quinta Inns and philanthropist (Barshop Institute and the Barshop Jewish Community Center of San Antonio) Tom Frost, banker and philanthropist, senior chairman of the boards of Frost National Bank in San Antonio and Cullen/Frost Bankers Charles Schreiner, III, rancher from Kerr County who helped to preserve and expand herds of Texas Longhorn cattle The Church Robert R. Brown, 9th Bishop of Arkansas, author of "And One Was a Soldier": The Spiritual Pilgrimage of Robert E. Lee (1998) Frank