Word: midshipman
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...think it's fine for the military to send one little e-mail encouraging people to consider serving," said Rich Goodier '01, a Navy ROTC midshipman. "Sometimes I get upset at people's anti-military views, which they often take out on everyone and everything associated with it. The military is a critical part of maintaining the stability of this country...
...opportunities as the men in all ROTC endeavors-a fact that can be clearly seen by the number of women we have as midshipmen leaders in our battalion. I, in fact, was 'Battalion Commander,' the top midshipmen billet last semester-which basically means I ran the show from the midshipman's standpoint...
That he survived at all gave the country reason to consecrate him. But McCain, a rascal midshipman who graduated near the bottom of his class, had found his faith in a different standard, where glory is measured by commitment to causes larger than oneself. And if everyone around him was saying he had brought honor to his family name, he didn't yet have reason to believe it. "They are treating us like heroes," he told his Naval Academy roommate Chuck Larson when he got back to the States, "and all I did was get shot down...
...chafes against authority. As a child, McCain displays a petulance that leads him, when angry, to hold his breath until he blacks out. As a student, McCain recounts, "I grew more determined to assert my crude individualism." At the Naval Academy he is a self-described "arrogant, undisciplined, insolent midshipman" who graduates near the bottom of his class...
...choice to cross-register for classes at MIT, or even other schools of the university, some of which are located in far more "inconvenient" locations. In choosing to join ROTC, students accept the commute as an inconvenience in exchange for the opportunity to serve as a cadet or midshipman, and this is certainly a noble choice. Similarly, students who wish to cross-register at another school accept the commute as a cost of participation. However, while gay and lesbian students are allowed to register for most classes at MIT, they do not have the choice to register for classes sponsored...