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...Curtis LeMay and William Dean, the Korean War hero, were also ROTC-trained. Currently, about one-third of the Army generals are ROTC men, including five major generals who are commanding divisions in Viet Nam; only one division there is headed by a West Pointer. Says Brigadier General Clifford Hannum, head of the Army ROTC: "The worst thing you could do is cause the Army to turn inward for its officers...
Close-Order Rituals. Hannum's point is apparently lost on many critics, who see no disparity in arguing against ROTC while arguing for a volunteer army. Such an army might well need a larger supply of ROTC officers, even if only to curb the growth of a real U.S. officer caste. Meanwhile, wherever ROTC is made extracurricular, the almost certain result will be diminished enrollment. Ultimately, the military might have to turn elsewhere for officers...
Brig. Gen. C.P. Hannum, director of Army ROTC, said he saw nothing in President Pusey's letter to Dean Ford--which he has seen, but not officially received--to indicate that the Corporation has reached any decision to remove academic credit or Corporation appointments from ROTC...
...plan to take no action until the Harvard Corporation officially comes to the Department of the Army with a distillation of what the letter implies," Hannum said. He added, however, that under any circumstances, Army ROTC will remain at Harvard...
...Hannum said that even if the Corporation approved the Faculty credit-withdrawal resolution, "it might still be possible to work out a mutually acceptable compromise" for keeping an Army ROTC unit at Harvard...