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Munns says it’s funny to think that some of his ROTC peers are confident that their commitment will be over after four years and that they anticipate the kinds of professional opportunity that will be available to them as former U.S. military officers, while diminishing the hardship and commitment of their required years of service...
...campus, he is involved in what used to be called the Harvard ROTC Association, now the National Defense Forum, and also participates in Pershing Rifles. He says his ROTC commitment is a huge part of his life at Harvard, but certainly not the entirety of his experience. This is true for most cadets...
...definitely identify as an ROTC cadet. But first and foremost you’re a student. The program is very good about putting a priority on academics,” says Taylor. Still, some ROTC cadets feel separated from their college. “There are definitely times when I feel like I do identify more with even MIT and ROTC than the actual Harvard experience,” Persons says. For others, ROTC is more of a large extracurricular commitment. Bartch calls her Air Force training her “varsity sport.” But more so than...
They are professionally ambitious first of all. They are patriotic, athletic, altruistic, inspiring and very good at planning ahead. ROTC upperclassmen don’t seem smug so much as self-assured when thinking about the job market. The recruiting nightmares and vocational anguish of their peers is a foreign notion to them. But Persons puts it in perspective. She says traveling to MIT isn’t really such a hardship at all. “When you consider the kinds of things you’ll have to give up on active duty,” she says...
...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...