{"id":22483,"date":"2011-03-03T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22483"},"modified":"2011-03-03T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T23:28:45","slug":"harvard-brings-back-rotc-to-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22483","title":{"rendered":"Harvard brings back ROTC to campus"},"content":{"rendered":"

Associated Press<\/a> reports that Harvard University and the Navy Secretary will sign an agreement to formally acknowledge the Navy’s presence on campus.<\/p>\n

As part of the agreement, a director of Naval ROTC at Harvard will be appointed, and the university will resume funding the program. Harvard cadets will still train at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as they have for years<\/p>\n

Harvard and several other prominent schools, including Stanford, Yale and Columbia, had kept the Vietnam-era ban in place following the war because of what they viewed as a discriminatory military policy forbidding gays from serving openly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, big damn deal. For decades Harvard has taken GI Bill money while not “formally” recognizing the presence of an ROTC detachment on campus. So what’s changed besides the University acting magnanimous and the Navy kowtowing. <\/p>\n

And that bullshit about keeping the ban in place because of the military’s (Congress’) policies against gays – I was teaching ROTC when universities decided to use the gay issue as an excuse – 14 years after Saigon fell. Do you seriously think that anyone cared about gays in the military in 1975? No, I remember when that light bulb came on in the late eighties. <\/p>\n

Harvard banned ROTC in 1969, then defunded the program in 1995, saying “don’t ask, don’t tell” violated its non-discrimination policies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, so why had they kept ROTC off-campus between 1975 and 1995? <\/p>\n

Screw Harvard. Who needs them.Arrogant, pompous shitbags. Making the services grovel for them is unforgivable. I’m sure they’ll think up another excuse to blackmail Cadet Command soon enough. However student reaction to this announcement should be priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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