Word: rotc
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Friends remembered Wilson as a visible and sociable resident of the House, a hard-working student in the Computer Science Department, an enthusiastic member of the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), and an avid world traveller...
Travelling from his base, Wilson snowboarded in the Austrian Alps, hang-glided over Swiss lakes, and ran with the bulls in Pamplona, according to an article he wrote last fall for the newsletter of his MIT-headquartered ROTC detachment. But he emphasized in the article that he enjoyed his time on duty as much—if not more—than his off-duty adventures...
...Harvard, Wilson rose early each morning for ROTC training, but he was equally committed to Adams House life, according to Naomi O. Hausman ’04, now an economics doctoral candidate here...
According to his senior yearbook, Wilson served as president of the National Defense Forum at Harvard and rose to the rank of wing commander in ROTC. He also rowed for Adams’ intramural lightweight crew team...
...among rabid pacifists. The writer John Dos Passos ’16, for example, felt compelled to volunteer for “gentleman’s ambulance corps”—until his father vetoed it. During the First and Second World Wars, Harvard’s ROTC units used to train under the elms of Harvard Yard...