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...yellow trolley. When the electronic factory is ready for the casting, the metal is automatically rolled from there over to the proper machining center, which selects the right tool from a large drum of some 40 accessories and begins to customize the casting according to computerized blueprints. If a drill bit should suddenly snap in two, the machine senses the problem, selects another one to replace it and finishes the job. Castings proceed automatically to other machines, and emerge as finished parts in three days, on average, compared with the three months typically required in traditional metalworking shops, where time...
...basic structure has not changed-cadets still attend a weekly class, meet for marching drill, and participate ina seminar program called "Leadership lab." But drill now meets only four times a semester rather than once a week, and the curriculum of the class has been reworked to include current topics international relations and military strategy, which AFROTC officials call "more relevant" to everyday life. "These days, rather than filling their heads with ideology we concentrate on getting our students thinking," says Col. Joel Hetland, professor of Air Science at MIT and instructor for the program's freshmen...
...COLD Saturday morning down at MIT's New Athletic Center finds the atmosphere quiet but cheerful. Today, the three Flight groups of cadet squadron one are meeting for drill, and everyone is very polite. People salute each other. A civilian visitor is addressed as 'Ma'am' or 'miss.' The cadets gather in small groups, straightening each other's name plates and wiping doughnut crumbs off the blue serge of Air Force ROTC's winter uniform in preparation for inspection. "It's not like anything is going to happen to you if your shoes aren't shined enough," says Steven Perry...
Although ROTC officials emphatically discount the importance of this military ritual, the cadets take it seriously. Besides planningthe marching moves each Flight will perform during drill, they are responsible for its scheduling and for making sure attendance is consistent. The mock squadron is staffed and consistent. The mock squadron is staffed and led by a hierarchy of juniors and seniors who have been promoted to ranks that correspond to actual Air Force positions. "It's true that an active duty officer will rarely have to drill," says Bryon Fortson, a cadet corps commander and MIT senior. "But here...
...cadets like "marching around" so much that when Hetland suggested to his students that they devise an alternative "Method for teaching leadership and followship" an overwhelming majority said they would rather stick with the traditional system. "I was really taken ,aback," Hetland says. "I'm dead set against drill myself-in the Air Force you just don't spend time marching around in fields...