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...Amolsch lived an easy three years in the peacetime army, quartered with the Field Artillery at Madison Barracks, New York. When his enlistment ran out he tried civilian life for only a little more than a month before re-enlisting. "I guess the military life was in the blood." But when he went back in, the peacetime army was beginning to toughen up for a war which came soon afterwards...
...Amolsch was shipped home to New York. He had been office chief of transportation for General Ross, whose headquarters was in Paris after the liberation. Having had enough of the army, he remained a civilian for a surprisingly long time, two years, working in the registry department of the U. S. Postal Service. "The blood," however, get the best of him for a third time...
...Amolsch arrived in Cambridge as Air Force sergeant in January of 1949. He liked the post immediately. He was even happier to discover that Harvard men "are good material to work with." He readily defends their martial qualities, the lack of which is a popular butt, by testifying that "Harvard turns out Licutenants just as good as those of any other school...
...Amolsch the R.O.T.C. is more than another job. "Military training," he says, "is advantageous to all young men." He believes in that without question and without qualification, and he is able to impart that belief to much younger men of completely different background and ambition...
Almost any cadet will speak reverently of Amolsch. He is tops because he likes his work, and he likes the life of a professional peacetime soldier. "I'm married," he says, "two girls plus a cocker spanicl." Then he smiles...