Word: midshipmen
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Crimson played Navy on Sunday in a close match. Harvard was within one goal most of the game until the Midshipmen scored two late in the contest to pull out a 7-4 victory...
Jeffrey C. Munns ’03 sits in the front row. He is the battalion commander this semester and so he coordinates activities for all the midshipmen at MIT. This morning he stays awake through the basics of sonar and how sound travels underwater. Most of the back row nods off periodically...
...says. “It’s so hard to explain to other people what it means.” And it’s true. It’s difficult to glean the specifics of what a ROTC commitment means emotionally to these cadets and midshipmen. It’s not so hard to glean that it does mean a lot of work...
Still, ROTC is about more than getting a good job eventually or paying for school, and a military commitment is certainly not just another extracurricular. The cadets and midshipmen don’t get too sentimental about it, though. King comes the closest. Because he joined ROTC in his sophomore year, he spent five weeks last summer at a “lateral entry camp” where he caught up on the training he had missed. He says the drill sergeants at Fort Knox, where he attended this camp, talked a lot about how to talk about the army...
...There is a special nobility, a special grace, to those who are prepared to sacrifice their lives for our country,” Summers said. He echoed these sentiments in a Veterans’ Day letter to Harvard cadets and midshipmen...