graduate as were the Second U.S. Army commander, 15th U.S. Army commander, the commander of Allied Air Forces of the Southwest Pacific and various corps and division commanders in the Army and Marine Corps. China's General Sun Li-jen, known as the "Rommel of the East", was also a graduate of VMI.
During the war, VMI participated in the War Department's Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP) from 1943 to 1946. The program provided training in engineering and related subjects to enlisted men at colleges across the United States. Over 2,100 ASTP members studied at VMI during the war.
=== Post-World War II ===
The arsenal, the structure that received most of the damage when Union forces shelled and burned the institute in June 1864, was rebuilt as the Old Barracks. The new wing of the barracks ("New Barracks") was completed in 1949.
In 1997, 30 female students enrolled, marking VMI's new status as a coeducational institution.
In October 2020, VMI Board of Visitors announced that they would relocate the Jackson …
