Word: anding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Is the Air Force's college reserve officers' training program as outmoded as the B-17 bomber? Fortnight ago, John D. Millett, president of Miami University of Ohio, posed the question on behalf of 176 college and university administrators gathered for an Air Force-sponsored conference on R.O.T.C...
At the root of the tension between the Air Force and the colleges, said President Millett, is a continuing uncertainty over the mission of the A.F.R.O.T.C. program. Over the past 15 years, the Air Force has shifted the goal from training men to serve for short terms in reserve units...
In explanation, Major General Lloyd P. Hopwood, director of Personnel Procurement and Training, said that the A.F.R.O.T.C. program is "the least flexible of our officer-procurement programs," since changes in Air Force strength in recent years have "been established in hours or at most a few months." To change the...
One possible solution, said Hopwood, is for the Air Force to substitute civilian-taught courses for some military-taught ones. This would save military personnel. The Air Force would also consider reducing the basic compulsory two-year program to one year, and cutting down the number of participating schools. But...
Up the hill through olive groves, past herds of goat and sheep, come the worshipers on Christmas Eve to the quiet Judean town. Peasants walk to Bethlehem wearing medieval costumes, silk-hatted diplomats swirl into Manger Square in black limousines. And in entering the Church of the Nativity, all bend...