Georgia Southern University on Thursday formally opened its new $9.5 million Military Science Building, headquarters to the Eagle Battalion ROTC program, which has won awards as the top Army ROTC program in a more than five-state region three of the last eight years. “Having received multiple MacArthur Awards, our program is recognized as one of the finest and largest ROTC programs in the country, producing military leaders who are ready, Day 1, to serve our nation,” said GSU President Jaimie Hebert, PhD. “This facility will allow our staff and our cadets to push those standards even higher.” For about a decade, the Reserve Officer Training Corps’ home on the Georgia Southern campus was a portable building, described by officials as a crowded, leaking “double-wide.”