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With only 70 cadets, Harvard's AFROTC is one of the smallest in the country. About ten cadets are graduated yearly at a cost of $7,000 per graduate, which is nearly the average for all 300 schools in the program. The Air Force also trains the Harvard cadet in much the same manner as that of any other college; he marches as often, takes the same standard course material, and receives the same allowance as the cadet, at say, Alabama State...
...their intensive studies of the drop-out problem (70 percent of a class usually leaves the program by the junior year), cadets have run across sentiments like that of the former member of AFROTC who lamented that "the lothsome part now comes first...
Freshman Crew; Kirkland House Football: 1958, 1959; Kirkland House Crew; 1959, 1960; Presently Lt. Colonel, AFROTC, Executive Officer; Distinguished Military Student Award; Former Assistant-Commander of the AFROTC Drill Team (3 years participation); Former Cadet Capt., Administrative Officer...
...revision will out the enrollment in college AFROTC programs considerably and will give scholarship aid to students chosen to enter the new program. The proposal comes as a result of the Air Force's feeling that the course does not cover present or future needs...
...greater selectivity of the new program will decrease considerably the present enrollment in AFROTC units across the country. There are 64,122 freshmen enrolled in AFROTC now and Major Edward M. Lyman, head of the AFROTC unit in the University, pointed out that the Air Force needs only 3,500. This figure compares with the 14,000 needed by the Army, but Lyman explained that the Air Force does not have reserve units like the Army...