Word: rotcs
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Promotions and changes of men previously connected to the Harvard ROTC unit were released recently by Colonel Francis Doniat, commanding officer...
Staff Sergeant Kenneth J. White, Sergeant Major of the Harvard ROTC from August, 1938 to September 17, 1942, was promoted on the latter date to a second lieutenancy. He is now at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia, in service with an MP battalion. Sergeant J. W. Parry has replaced him as chief clerk of military affairs here...
Will the Navy and the Air Corps follow the lead of the Army and abandon their deferment programs? Men in the Marines have already received their six-months notice. What is to be the fate of the ROTC? In many quarters, sections of the Stimson dictum were taken to mean that the college units will be given up. When the lowered draft age becomes a reality, will the age limits of the ERC, and any other such groups operating under similar regulations, drop to meet it? And if they do should the colleges go into the English system...
Vague references to "quasi military" training in colleges probably do not mean the ROTC, Colonel Doniat said. "The ROTC has been considered a very good source of officers," he said, and will almost certainly be continued. Men in the advanced course are deferred under the provisions of the Selective Service Act, and are not affected by the calling up of ERC, but modifications of the entire Mil Sci program do appear very possible, he concluded...
Colonel Francis A. Doniat, in charge of the Military Science Department, analyzed the announcement to have two effects on the student body in the Enlisted Reserve. Those also enrolled in ROTC would, he felt, in all probability stay in college; while those in the ERC, over 20 and not in the ROTC, may expect to be called up after January with the possibility of having to take some training in ROTC. Colonel Doniat added that his sole source of information was the newspaper article and that it suggested that plans were not entirely completed...