Anchors Aweigh!!
Columbia is now bringing the Navy ROTC back to campus!
I actually learned about this just before the Spring Game Friday night, but I was understandably distracted by the game.
Now, all we need is that ceremony honoring our student veterans halftime and a lot of us will be very, very happy!
posted by Jake @ 9:18:00 PM
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Great news about ROTC.
Who woulda thunk? Maybe there's still hope for America. I was in the ROTC at Columbia and remember marching in front of Butler Library every Friday afternoon. There was both Navy and Air Force ROTC at that time. We should add the Army too. I believe the Marines still are attached to the Navy for such purposes but they should have their own unit also. There are many honorable ways to serve your country but none moreso than in the military.
My recollection is that we only had Navy ROTC by the 1960s. there was a NROTC scholarship program as I recall, in which the Navy would actually pay for college if you would give them 3 years. I remember a lot of people dropping out of the program as part of the Vietnam era anti-military fervor which swept a lot of cmapuses.
Hey Jake,
The football team is doing a fundraiser this Friday on campus for the Friends of Jaclyn charity that they participate in. The website is http://www.jacked4jaclyn.com/. Hopefully some of the viewers will notice and donate. These guys are doing great things on and off the field!
Thanks for telling us about the football team fundraiser. That was an easy decision to support pediatric brain research with the players lifting weights. Great cause and a great effort by the players.
ROTC was wrong at Columbia in the sixties. We were still trying to come to grips with the My Lai Massacre. Callus crazy, but that was too much.
.... get a grip .... this is no longer the sixties ....
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