Word: rotc
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First, he has recommended to higher military authorities a revision in the Ivy League Army ROTC program by eliminating the first term of freshman year and substituting a week's training before summer camp...
...DeVere Parker Armstrong is closing 30 years of commissioned service in the regular Army with two projects he considers important for the future of the ROTC program...
...reconstruction of the standard ROTC program is based on the idea that local situations demand different solutions. An all-volunteer Ivy unit will face different problems than a land-grant college, which has required ROTC. Hence, his solution claims to reduce the amount of on-campus time taken up by strict ROTC material...
Five hundred cadets will parade today on Soldiers Field in the annual military review of the combined Army, Navy, and Air Force ROTC units of the College. The review begins at 2:30 p.m. and will include precision drill competition, presentation of awards to outstanding cadets, and inspection by the Overseers' Visiting Committee. Music will be provided by the 18th U.S. Army Band...
Though the chances for official Army approval of this new plan are almost nil, improvements are still evident. Army ROTC has two civilian courses now. The Air Force unit this year adopted a radical innovation, completely doing away with all freshman Air Science courses. Even the isolated Navy is instituting a group psychology course for next year's sophomores. With ROTC now confronted by threatened obsolescence, the beginnings of a sensible re-evaluation of its basic foundations are both welcome and necessary...