ROTC
Year in Photos: ROTC
From left, Carolyn F. Pushaw ’16, Lucy F. Perkins, and Kira R. Headrick ’17 bow their heads during a 9/11 memorial service hosted by ROTC cadets and midshipmen in 2014.
Boots on the Ground: ROTC at Harvard
Four years after the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps’ reinstatement on campus, the challenges of reuniting two long separated institutional and bureaucratic giants—Harvard University and the United States military—remain.
Body By ROTC
We’ll be the first to admit it: we aren’t the most muscular writers on FM. We don’t have the prodigious heft of Nathan and Ben, for instance. But, feeling fed up with the biting jabs about our scrawniness at writers’ meetings, we recently sought the help and advice of one of the fittest people on campus: Carolyn F. Pushaw ’16, a Marine-option ROTC midshipmen.
Bayonet Drill
Students practice a bayonet drill at Harvard Stadium in 1917 or 1918 according to an annotation on the photograph.
Cadet Falletta
Charley M. Falletta ’16 listens during Army ROTC’s weekly leadership lab on Wednesday, Feb. 18.
List of Loyalties
Nathan L. Williams ’18 keeps a priority list in his dorm room. When asked about ROTC, he explained, "What else would be more, more important?"
9/11 Memorial
From left, Carolyn F. Pushaw ’16, Lucy F. Perkins, and Kira R. Headrick ’17 bow their heads during a 9/11 memorial service in 2014.
Army ROTC LEAD Lab
Charley M. Falletta ’16, Lucy F. Perkins, and James J. W. Clarke ’16 discuss tactics during Army ROTC’s weekly leadership lab on Wednesday, Feb. 18.
Naval History Class
ROTC midshipmen and Marine options give presentations during a naval history class at MIT. Students in Naval ROTC usually take a course on military science each semester.
Using the SOCH
Lt. Nathan Stempel helps Sebastian R. Saldivar ’15 prepare for an interview in the SOCH.
2011 Protest Against ROTC Reinstatement
James R. Sares ’12 (right) and other demonstrators protested the reinstatement of ROTC at Harvard in March 2011 because, despite the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," the military does not allow trans-identified or intersex individuals to serve.
Reinstament
Navy Secretary Ray E. Mabus (seated, left) and Harvard University President Drew G. Faust (seated, right) signed an agreement in March 2011 to re-establish Naval ROTC at Harvard after nearly 40 years of absence due to Harvard's non-discrimination policy.
Marine Option Pushaw
Carolyn F. Pushaw ’16 decided she wanted to join the military when she was a child.