Word: cadet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team is going to have to move out fast to win the Heps. Army, the defending champs with their whole squad returning, will be favored if healthy. But the two top Cadet harriers -- Jim Warner and Paul DeCoursey -- have been mysteriously absent from recent Army meets, and there is a good chance they will miss the Heps entirely...
...gained enough scholarship support to ensure his education without parental help. As a sophomore, he not only proved a top student, but found time to star on the wrestling, boxing and swimming teams, and become captain of the rifle and pistol squad as well as cadet battalion commander in the ROTC. He also got his first taste of political activism. Ferdie took to the soapbox to comment acidly on everything from the curriculum to the policies of the Philippines' first President, Manuel Quezon...
...Reading of Captain Carpenter's heroism [June 17], I rummaged through old sports programs for the one of the 1959 Army-Navy game. Under the cadet's portrait is the statement, "Bill seems destined for leadership." Never has such an accurate prophecy been made...
...Another cadet says that he joined NROTC because he was planning a Naval career, but that he has since changed his mind. "I think there's more opportunity outside the Navy. The hierarchy makes it hard to get ahead...
...making their decision, students rarely forget that ROTC pays-and not just the $40 per month which cadets get after they have signed the contract at the beginning of their junior year. They run into monetary incentives at almost every turn. They get $120 per month during their stay at summer camp. When they are commissioned as second lieutenants they draw annual salaries of over $5000 during their two-year term of active duty--enough to finance graduate school in some cases. When they complete their active duty they are eligible under the G.I. Bill, for $100 a month while...