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...fresh toothbrush. He kept his elbows off the table at meals, his speech was a crisp cadence of "yes, sir" or "no, ma'am," and on occasion he even helped old ladies across the street. He was, in short, the ideal son for many a parent: a cadet turned out by one of the nation's once flourishing military schools. Today, though, many of the academies are battling for survival. They have been ambushed, they say, by the recession, the permissiveness of modern parents, and public irascibility over the Viet Nam War, which seems to have given anything...
Thousands of Southerners turn out each year to see the drama re-enacted, but the cadet corps of V.M.I, stages its own commemoration. Last week, in splendid array, the seven companies of cadets swept onto the V.M.I, parade ground in full regalia: black-plumed shakos, gray coatees, white crossbelts, white ducks. They stood near a statue of Stonewall Jackson, flanked by four cannons named Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. As each name of the ten honored dead was called out, a cadet from the young soldier's company answered: "Died on the field of honor...
...Cadet Nasser...
...secondary school after the family moved to Cairo's Kubri al Quba section. Finally he secured an appointment to the military academy at Abbasiyah, which had just begun to accept sons of the lower classes as well as the aristocratic boys it traditionally favored. Sadat quickly became friends with Cadet Gamal Abdel Nasser, his classmate. "We were young men full of hope," wrote Sadat later in his Revolt on the Nile. "We were brothers-in-arms, united in friendship and common detestation of the existing order of things. Egypt was a sick country...
MISS Susan Orkins? Better make that Cadet Colonel Orkins, who represents yet another first for women's equality. She has been made commander of the 500-member Air Force ROTC wing at Ohio State University. Most of Colonel Orkins' subordinates are men, which could cause a protocol problem for the 22-year-old biology major on Saturday nights. ("May I have this dance, sir-I mean madam?") Luckily her fiance attends another university and hence is outside her control, militarily speaking. They intend to marry this year-after she receives her Air Force commission...