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...program involves the first major change in AROTC policy in three years. It requires considerably less time, reducing the number of classes per week from three to one for the first two years. The weekly two hour drill period required last year, remains the same, however...
Still further changes in the AROTC program are in the planning stage now, Hennessy indicated. A proposal to add more College-taught courses to the curriculum and to decrease Army instruction will go before the Faculty sometime this year, he said...
...enrolled in the AROTC this year compares with the Navy's 49, an increase of nine over last year's total. Capt. Richard B. Rodmayne, Commander of the NROTC unit in the University, attributed the increase to a greater effort on the Navy's part in seeking out prospects in various schools. He said that even more information should be available to incoming students, however, pointing out that a great many freshmen knew nothing about the Navy program at the end of Freshman week...
...Devere Armstrong, head of the AROTC unit, denied that any pressure had been exerted. "As commissioned officers," he said, "cadets will be expected to join officers' clubs. We feel that the Caisson Club is a form of training for this side of military life. Anyone who joins ROTC is the recipient of many advantages paid for by the government, and accepts therewith a moral obligation to support his unit. However, I have not myself participated in any pressure on any cadet--as far as I'm concerned there is no pressure...
...AROTC graduates who accept the Air National Guard offer will be officially enrolled for a six-year period in the National Guards of their respective states, rather than in the regular Air Force Reserve. After a maximum of three years of active duty in administrative training posts, they then enter the active reserve of the Air National Guard for the remainder of the six year period for training, consisting chiefly of weekly drills. Two more years' service in the inactive reserve program completes the National Guard requirements...