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This year, the alumni group and the Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps Association (HROTCA), an officially recognized student group that Army cadet Charles B. Cromwell ’02 founded in October, have collaborated to invite speakers, including a colonel who was an aide-de-camp to Clinton, to talk with cadets...
Lieutenant Colonel Brian Baker, who is a professor of military science at MIT and commander of the Army battalion in which Harvard cadets participate, praised Summers as he introduced him to the audience...
Students protested, claiming they were randomly dropped from the program. But Air Force ROTC’s head, Colonel Frank P. Bostron, explained that there was indeed a system for rating prospective cadets and that the students who had been cut from the Air Force would be offered placement in the Army’s program...
Early in his Presidential campaign, George W. Bush was on a four-mile run with a reporter when he began ruminating on the nature of Vladimir Putin, the former KGB lieutenant colonel who had become Russia's President. "Anyone who tells you they've figured Putin out," Bush said, "is just blowing smoke." Months later, on the eve of Bush's inauguration, his soon-to-be National Security Adviser, Condoleezza Rice, stood near a cocktail-party buffet table with a glass of white wine in her hand and predicted a gloomy future for U.S.-Russian relations. "There...
...guard Pope Julius II. But such perks may no longer be enough to entice young Swiss Catholics to serve in the Papal army. Although 28 recruits joined in May, the 110-member force is still 17 men short. "Recruitment can be difficult, and we are intensifying our efforts," says Colonel Pius Segmüller, the Swiss Guard commander responsible for keeping the ranks filled. "Part of the problem may be that we have very high standards and a tough selection process focused on quality rather than quantity." Indeed, the criteria are rigorous: candidates must be single Swiss men under...