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What nobody mentions is that the military enforces all kinds of behavioral controls that are at odds with the civil liberties civilians enjoy. Enlisted soldiers and officers alike aren’t allowed to comment on political candidates or parties. Sex between personnel of different ranks is forbidden. Adultery is a crime worthy of court martial. And some restrictions even target groups protected by Harvard’s anti-discrimination policy: women, for example, are barred from certain combat units, while foreign citizens and people with some physical disabilities can’t enlist...
Last month, Harvard’s Office of Career Services held a seminar to introduce students to the recruiting program. Numerous upperclassmen piled into Science Center C, Palm Pilots in tow, eager to enlist in the cult that is on-campus recruiting. The moguls-to-be entered the meeting cocky and left nauseous...
Revolution philippine-style is a two-step affair. First, you stop traffic in Manila by drawing a large crowd on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, or EDSA, one of the city's main thoroughfares. Next, you recruit a couple of ambitious generals who can enlist the troops and scramble the jets. That's the way two Philippine Presidents were overthrown: kleptocrat Ferdinand Marcos in 1986 and party-loving, mah-jongg crazy Joseph Estrada last January...
...When his draft notice arrived in late 1965, Kerrey jumped at the chance to enlist in Navy officer-training school, then signed up for something more exciting: underwater demolition. Kerrey relished the rigorous training and jumped again when he was selected for the secret counterinsurgent team called SEALs. He was eager to serve, he said, "with a knife in my teeth...
When his draft notice arrived in the fall of 1965, Kerrey jumped at the chance to enlist in Navy officer-training school, then signed up for something more exciting: underwater demolition. Kerrey relished the rigorous training and jumped again when he was selected for the secret counterinsurgent team called SEALs. He was eager to serve, he said, "with a knife in my teeth...