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Jonathan Klay — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 00:03:00 GMT

By: Jonathan Klay
Recently, I entered my fourth year as an ROTC cadet. I live in the neighborhood of Georgetown in Washington, DC and go on with my life as a regular student at Georgetown University. Sometimes I do not think about it, but it has become more and more obvious to me that among the civilians I know I am identified strongly an ROTC cadet. There are relatively few of us at Georgetown who are ROTC cadets when in comparison to the enormous campuses of state colleges....read more

Does ROTC prepare future LTs for war?

Jonathan Klay — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:13:00 GMT

By: Jonathan Klay
Now I do not mean to complain, and I hope that those who read this do not take this as a complaint, but rather please understand this rant as a mere reflection. ROTC has taught me the fundamentals of leadership in the US Army, but I question how it has really prepared myself and my fellow cadets for war. In fact the issues of combat, death, and dealing with it all are rarely discussed by cadre, even by cadets. It sometimes seems that as such subjects are taboo they...read more