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Everyone is in the van and accounted for at 6:39. Everyone except one cadet, who arrives about five minutes later. “What time is it?” an authoritative figure in the front seat barks at her. “By my watch, 6:42.” There is some half-hearted reprimand and for a moment it seems like the army is the cold, rigid entity that stereotypes and war movies are made of. Until the “Jeopardy!” theme song starts playing...
...Cadet Raphael S. Cohen ’04 is doing an active-duty four-year scholarship. And he is doing it intensely. Cohen is a member of Pershing Rifles, a tri-service military fraternity that emphasizes additional skill acquisition and war games. He also participated in this year’s Ranger Challenge, where cadets compete in activities like making a bridge out of one rope and other practical skills of physical mettle...
...cadet leads the group exercise and third-year platoon leaders look on with evaluation cards in hand. The peer leadership and review is an integral part of what cadets are learning. While cadets seem to come perilously close to dropping the large planks used for weight training on their heads, Captain Richard K. Berube, who is in charge of recruiting for the Paul Revere battalion, MIT’s ROTC branch, takes time away from observing physical training to speak surprisingly frankly about his battalion...
Zacchilli, like his fellow cadets, emphasizes the leadership training ROTC cadets get, and the leadership experience they will have as commissioned officers. Cadet King agrees, “It’s a choice about my future. There aren’t a lot of jobs out there where a 23-year-old gets put in charge of millions of dollars of equipment, but most importantly you have the final responsibility for people. The term is ‘mission first and people always,’” says King...
...Haas supervises as James S. Foreman ’04 leads stretching and stadium runs. As they warm up, Haas intersperses small talk with pointers on leadership. He asks about an upcoming rugby game and Foreman reports that Harvard is set to play the Army, as in West Point. Cadet Finnegan A. Hamill ’04 asks Haas “Who do we root...