Word: rotcs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Patrick Aquino '98, who accepted a four-year Navy ROTC scholarship hoping to attend medical school one day, dreams of military glory turned to struggles over paperwork and an eventual exit from the program...
...Harvard ROTC cadets participate in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's ROTC program. Many, like Aquino, accept military scholarships that obligate them to serve in a post assigned by the military...
Although not all cadets at MIT sign up for ROTC with specific careers in mind, those who do often have difficulty landing desirable upper-level jobs, despite their impressive college credentials...
...addition, cadets say the ROTC program often has made delaying service to go to law or medical school, or switching majors within ROTC, a daunting task...
According to officials at MIT's ROTC program, these problems occur primarily because the military does not view cadets as free agents-it sees them as good investments...