Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...regular ROTC summer camps will be suspended until at least six months after the war, the Military Science Department announced yesterday. The information received in a radiogram from Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson offered no explanation for the sudden cancellation, but the War Department stated that details would follow...
Since shortly after the first World War, summer camps have been the main source of practical experience for students in the ROTC. Although comprehensive drills are held for about 12 weeks during the fall and spring college terms, the future officers have been expected to learn artillery technique under actual conditions in this six-week period of field duty. Mil Sci men usually attend camp at the end of their Junior year...
Those students who are not legally required to register include: (1) any student in the advanced course of ROTC or NROTC who is a contract student; and (2) students who have been accepted by and sworn into the Naval Reserve V7, the Air Corps Reserve, or the Marine Corps Reserve. Such students are urged to register nevertheless for purposes of identification with police and other officials...
...already signed up for V-7, any of the ROTC's, or have not already made satisfactory plans concerning commissions and degrees can be interviewed by an officer of the Marince Corps at University 20, during the next two days. But they will not find it any draft-dodging device or soft war berth. The Marines may want a man with a sheepskin, but they want to train him to lead platoons in combat. Their officers are now serving from Greenland to the Philippines and from Alaska to the tropics. Part of the U.S. Navy, the Marine Corps...
Three members of various Crimson crews, including the Varsity's Number 7 oarsmen, are planning to leave college at midyears. Paul Pennoyer '42, of Tom Bolles' first eight, will join the Navy Air Corps if he is granted a release from the Naval ROTC here...