{"id":21594,"date":"2010-12-21T07:48:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T11:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21594"},"modified":"2010-12-21T07:48:26","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T11:48:26","slug":"harvard-expects-to-bring-back-rotc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21594","title":{"rendered":"Harvard expects to bring back ROTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard President Drew Faust says she fully expects to revive the decades-gone Reserve Officer Training Corp program to the prestigious institution now that the Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell policy has been rescinded according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2010\/12\/21\/after_4_decades_harvard_opens_door_to_rotc\/\">Boston Globe<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Faust, the daughter of a decorated World War II veteran, said she expects to begin talking with military officials about bringing the program back to campus soon. Faust has repeatedly said that the \u201cdon\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell\u2019\u2019 policy was the final barrier to reinstating the Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to pursuing discussions with military officials and others to achieve Harvard\u2019s full and formal recognition of ROTC,\u2019\u2019 she said in a written statement. \u201cI am very pleased that more students will now have the opportunity to serve their country.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A Pentagon spokeswoman said it is too early to say whether the decision could result in a ROTC unit being established on campus, but student interest and the military budget are two potential factors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard President Drew Faust says she fully expects to revive the decades-gone Reserve Officer Training Corp &hellip; <a title=\"Harvard expects to bring back ROTC\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21594\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Harvard expects to bring back ROTC<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}