Lexington city government will end its relationship with University of Kentucky ROTC at the end of this year.
Since 2016, ROTC has had a contract with Lexington Parks and Recreation to use Hisle Farm Park for tactical training, which includes large groups of cadets in camouflage carrying rubber guns. The props don’t fire any ammunition but are visually indistinguishable from real guns, residents said.
Citizens called the exercises “jarring” and “wholly incompatible” with the park environment at a city council meeting in June…