Does anybody graduating Harvard go into the military? Anybody?
Would the military WANT anybody who graduated from Harvard?
Harvard grads are much more likely these days to go into the bloated State Department and Deep Swamp where world affairs are treated like a chess game with our soldiers and battlefield populations the pawns.
—”Does anybody graduating Harvard go into the military?”
85 ROTC cadets and midshipmen
40 Air Force
27 Army
16 Navy
2 Marine Corps
1 USMC PLC cadets (students who participate in Marine Corps training during their summers and will attend Marine Corps OCS after graduation)
As of September 2021
https://dso.college.harvard.edu/military-affiliates
Following the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy towards gay and lesbian service members, Harvard officially recognized both Navy ROTC in 2011 and Army ROTC in 2012 to celebratory fanfare. But for students in the program, the merit of reinstatement was largely symbolic. Besides a few benefits like Harvard-funded Zipcars to and from physical training as well as largely unused office spaces in the Student Organization Center at Hilles, the program is largely unchanged on a logistical level. There’s a sense among students in ROTC, alumni of the program, and veterans at Harvard’s graduate schools that the University could be doing more to accommodate students and to grow ROTC’s once-expansive presence on campus.
The challenges of reuniting two long separated institutional and bureaucratic giants—Harvard University and the United States military—remain.