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Called to active service half-way through their Junior year, the ROTC men went through four-month basic at Ft. Bragg, Sill, or Roberts, trickled back Cambridge, and were put in the ASTU for cold storage. While at Harvard they were permitted to continue with their own college courses, subject to approval by the Army. In addition they performed certain administrative duties in the office...
...persons and events mentioned above are not in the least fictitious. As a matter of fact, anything can happen when the colleges, and especially the Class of '45, goes into the Army. Basic Training is about the same all over. Except that at Fort Bragg there was many a laugh. Conviviality did it. We got the breaks...
...sandy waste known as Fort Bragg, where Hargrove lived and gold-bricked, is just what he cracked it up to be. Strange and quaint people and officers, fantastic programs, and unbelievable feats of training squat sweatingly there. Forty-five former Harvard ROTC men will to I you so any day, to the tune of the Caisson Song...
There was the small man with the big remains that Bragg's were colorful. Their muscles, the close combat instructor and fiendish ("scrub barracks tonight") platoon sergeant. He had the "cadre complex" and had it bad, and was continually nasty in a high-pitched way. Then came the first cool day, when he winsomely confided that he was an ex-English teacher, that his greatest ambition was to come to Harvard after the war as a graduate student, "and just read for a year...
Thomas N. Bridge '44, NROTC, of V-12 Barracks and Franklin, Ohio; Worth B. Daniels '46, of Lowell House and Fort Bragg, North Carolina; and Paul F. Perkins '45, NROTC, of v-12 Barracks and Brookline were the men chosen...