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David M. Baughan'70 and Fridtjof H. Eriksen '70 have both received orders to begin two years of active duty this year, instead of finishing their last year at Harvard. The orders cannot be appealed...
...Baughan quit NROTC, while Eriksen was dismissed from the program because of his involvement in last year's anti-ROTC campaign. Secretary of the Navy John Chafee, on the recommend ation of the Pentagon's Active Duty Board, ruled that they must begin two year stints as soon as possible...
...Both Baughan and Eriksen were enrolled in the four-year "regular" subsidied NROTC program, under which the Defense Department pays full tuition and additional expenses. Students in this program must enlist in the Naval Reserves as freshmen and are legally committed to the Reserves after their first two years in NROTC, although they are not called to active duty so long as they remain in the program...
...Baughan, who is now at Harvard awaiting assignment, asked last month to withdraw from ROTC. He said yesterday that he "had doubts about ROTC" for over a year before a cruise to Guantanamo and Key West last summer convinced him to leave. "I was so sure I didn't want to be an officer that I was willing to accept being a sailor." he said...
...hoped to be allowed to finish my senior year first," said Baughan, whose father is a rear admiral in the Navy. "But the Pentagon's decision came as no surprise and I can acept it: no gross injustice was done," he added...