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...with the complexities of their decision. Classmates don’t understand why they joined a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” institution, or why they’re willing to give up four years of their lives. When the cadets wear their camouflage BDUs around campus, other students ask them why they decided to join ROTC. Often it is simply an exchange of pleasantries. But sometimes inquirers mean something more, though they might not say it out loud. What if they send you to Iraq? Do you like shooting people...
...other nearby universities and service members from other branches of the military, commenced with a bagpipe performance outside the Spangler Center. “I just love the traditions, love the history, love the camaraderie,” said Will A. Aurigemma, a senior at Boston University and NROTC cadet. That history began when the Second Continental Congress appointed Samuel Nicholas to organize the first two battalions of the Marines Corps on Nov. 10, 1775. According to the PowerPoint presentation, Nicholas recruited his first service members in Philadelphia’s Tun Tavern by offering them beer. The presentation ended...
...both too poor and too proud to leave. His legs were paralyzed since childhood, but it meant the world to James, 52, to strut his independence: he insisted on living by himself in a small, green cinderblock house in the working-class section of Biloxi, Miss., called Point Cadet. And whenever hurricanes approached the Gulf Coast, James adamantly refused suggestions that, given his wheelchair-bound vulnerability, he should evacuate. Says his brother Robert, "He had a big, brave heart...
...Brave enough to confront Hurricane Katrina. Like most in Point Cadet's enclave of lower-income blacks, Hispanics and Vietnamese a stone's throw from Biloxi's beachfront hotels and casinos, James had neither a car nor much access to bus transportation to leave the weekend Katrina hit. What he did have is what's known in this part of the country as catastrophe cowboy syndrome: a cavalier attitude shared among so many on the Gulf Coast that they can stand up to, and ride out, threats like major hurricanes. So when Katrina's 25-foot storm surge slammed into...
...December 1943, I became a Naval Air Force Pre-flight Cadet. After six months of strenuous basic training, our commanding officer explained the Japanese Imperial Navy?s decision to employ ?special tactics?. He appealed for volunteers. The prerequisites were (1) eighteen years of age or over; (2) not the first born in a family...