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Even at a school where students regularly load themselves down with extracurricular commitments, Bosco and the other ROTC midshipmen have had to take on some exceptional tasks. During the year he had to wake up early twice weekly for 7:15 a.m. military science courses at MIT—which covered subjects ranging from military bearing to naval engineering—and sometimes he woke up even earlier for physical training (PT) with the marine midshipmen...
Bosco says that Sept. 11 has tempered the ROTC experience with the knowledge that he and his classmates could be in a real combat situation very soon...
...says that among students, his ROTC service has been met with curiosity...
Bosco says that has he been met with hostility only from members of the Faculty, which voted to end Harvard’s on-campus ROTC unit 30 years ago and continues to oppose the program because of the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy. And even these have been relatively minor incidents: disparaging comments from a knot of professors as he walked through the Yard in uniform, a debate with a teaching fellow in section...
Neither the anti-war feelings on campus nor his ROTC uniform have dissuaded Bosco from voicing his own opinions, shaped by a brand of conservatism that has left him at odds with liberals, as well as conservatives like Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield...