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...Marine Corps is already extended to the leathernecked limit. In the U.S. the Marines have their 2nd Division (20,000 men), at Camp Lejeune, N.C., in combat readiness-an Atlantic reserve that must maintain seagoing battalion-landing teams with the Navy's Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean, and for the Caribbean. Combat ready on the West Coast, the 28th Marine Regiment (about 5,000 men) is rattling around in California's Camp Pendleton, a bare skeleton force whose departure would empty the West of Marines...
Elsewhere in the world, the Army has five divisions (232,000 men) in Europe, two (50,000 men) in troubled South Korea. Alaska (10,000) and Panama (5,000) are the only other sizable Army commitments; the Marines also maintain an amphibious brigade of 3,000 men in Okinawa that in effect provides reserves for Viet Nam. On that bloody ground, the Army currently has 333,000 men, the Marines 83,000. Clearly, any further thinning of force strengths across the world would leave the U.S. open to possible Communist flanking thrusts-which helps to explain Lyndon Johnson...
...reasons for Nixon's increased pace were clear. He had to maintain interest in the contest so unkindly rendered meaningless by George Romney's withdrawal. He needed more than ever to hold the spotlight lest it wander to the late-blooming Rockefeller write-in campaign. And looking beyond New Hampshire, he had to sustain the momentum that so far has put him ahead in the competition for the Republican nomination...
...basic fact behind the growing opposition to ROTC is the increasingly inescapable realization that ROTC now wants to recruit college students for mainly military careers. The implication of this is that the presence of ROTC can no longer be justified by the old arguments about the need to maintain a civilian army. As the emphasis of ROTC shifts from training reserves to recruiting career officers, the view that ROTC "civilianizes" the military--the rationale by which educators have long justified their uneasy relationship with the armed services--becomes untenable...
...course, even though our educational institutions can curb ROTC, they will not necessarily do so. Many universities are more than satisfied with the present arrangements. More than 100 institutions continue to maintain compulsory ROTC in the freshman and sophomore years, despite actual discouragement from the Pentagon, which views compulsory programs as inefficient. The B.U. faculty's uneasiness about the relationship between the education and the military is evidently not shared by many American educators...