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...twice a day. Greenberg soon proved his talents and his competitive drive. He was a starting football player--his athletic ability earned him the nickname Hank, after the baseball great of that era with the same name. He quit school to go to war in 1942 and, after his battalion landed on Omaha Beach under fire, went on to liberate the Dachau concentration camp. After the war, he finished high school supported only by the "52-20" unemployment package for ex-G.I.s: $20 a week for a year...
...Brian L. Baker, whose Paul Revere Battalion at MIT includes cadets from Harvard, said last fall that he would ask University President Lawrence H. Summers to allow the Army to post a captain and a sergeant on campus...
...potentially bruising battle over the future of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at Harvard was postponed this year after the chief of the Army’s battalion at MIT backed away from plans to request office space in the Yard...
Baker, who will retire this year after a quarter-century career in the Army, has led the battalion at MIT for the past half-decade...
Baker said last month that the Pentagon has no plans to station a full-fledged battalion at Harvard. “It’s too much of an investment,” Baker said...