Word: rotc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students who left the Harvard Naval ROTC program have been assigned to active duty in the Navy...
Baughan quit NROTC, while Eriksen was dismissed from the program because of his involvement in last year's anti-ROTC campaign. Secretary of the Navy John Chafee, on the recommend ation of the Pentagon's Active Duty Board, ruled that they must begin two year stints as soon as possible...
Baughan, who is now at Harvard awaiting assignment, asked last month to withdraw from ROTC. He said yesterday that he "had doubts about ROTC" for over a year before a cruise to Guantanamo and Key West last summer convinced him to leave. "I was so sure I didn't want to be an officer that I was willing to accept being a sailor." he said...
...Eriksen's difficulties with ROTC began when he was recognized in an Alumni Bulletin photograph of last April's occupation of University Hall. Moriarty, after learning that Eriksen was already on probation for his participation in last December's Paine Hall demonstration, recommended to the Active Duty Board that he be dismissed...
...Board made the same recommendation to Chafee on August 5, and the Secretary acted on it two weeks later. Eriksen received word of his active duty status on September 11 in an ROTC telegram charging him with "conduct unbecoming a midshipman and a prospective future Naval officer...