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SANTA FE (AP) - Burglars who took 20 rifles from the Santa Fe High School's ROTC program won't be able to do much with them. The ROTC program uses the rifles in drills and ceremonies, but "they're almost like props," Deputy Police Chief Eric Johnson said. "There's nothing they can do to make them work again. They're really no good to anyone but the ROTC unit." The rifles were taken Saturday by someone who entered through a roof hatch, Johnson said. The burglars first tried to get in through a heating vent, leaving $2,000 in damage, he said.

I'm a cadet at a Southern military college going through Army ROTC. Several cadets and I have gathered informally over the past semester with the goal of preparing ourselves for serving as Army officers. So far, the things we have done include alot of PT, ruck marches, some boxing and grappling, and group studies of various books on military science and history. If some the current of former Soldiers here could share their suggestions, we'd all be grateful.

Facing draft, Alito joined Army Reserve Wednesday, November 2, 2005; Posted: 10:42 p.m. EST (03:42 GMT) WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito joined the Army Reserve while he was a college student because his lottery number had made it likely he would be drafted for the Vietnam War, college roommates said Wednesday. Alito was part of the Army's ROTC program during his years at Princeton -- 1968 to 1972 -- a period when the war in Southeast Asia escalated and more American men were drafted. In 1971, President Nixon ended student deferments, increasing the pool of potential military...

FORT LEWIS, Wash. (TRADOC News Service, Aug. 4. 2005) – The population of Fort Lewis grew by more than 8,000 people this summer as Army ROTC cadets, Army Reserve and National Guard Soldiers, and ROTC college staff members are participating in Operation Warrior Forge, also referred to as the Leader Development and Assessment Course. Every year, Warrior Forge helps the U.S. Army Cadet Command provide more than two-thirds of the Army’s new officers, invigorates the local economy – both on post and off – and provides added training for active-duty Army and Reserve units. More than 4,500 cadets from all...

Today I had the honor and privilege of being invited and to attend the University of Puerto Rico Air Force ROTC Commissioning Ceremony at the State Capitol. Five young gentlemen and a lady received their Second Lieutenant bars before a crowd of cheering families, friends, veterans, military officers and NCO's. The lady, 2LT Veronica Baez was selected to attend Undergraduate Pilot Training at Columbus AFB in Mississippi. An achievement in and of itself. Another newly minted officer will join the Special Operations Command. His bars were pinned by his grandfather, a WWII and Korea veteran of the Infantry, and his...

Looser rules could attract up to 600 new officers; Growth amid recruiting problems; Reserve, National Guard work on similar program WASHINGTON - Faced with a need to expand the Army and ease recruitment problems, Army officials have decided to loosen the requirements for junior officer candidates - accepting prospects who exceed the current age limit by more than a decade, and permitting more flexibility to waive their minor criminal or civil offenses, according to a memo obtained by The Sun. The May 25 memo, sent to division commanders and other generals, said the Army hopes to attract 300 soldiers up...

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Stout says no to ROTC discrimination Story Subheadline By Lindsey Schuldt News Editor Recently the Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) was proposed to come to the University of Wisconsin-Stout campus. On Monday, May 9, Chancellor Sorensen sent out an e-mail to all UW-Stout staff informing them that he had decided against the ROTC program on our campus. "I have decided not to move forward with the invitation," said Sorensen. "I do not think, in good conscience, we can invite an organization to campus that discriminates against anyone because of sexual orientation." The ROTC program has a "Don't Ask, Don't...

Soldier and scholar, the sword and the book. Despite some remarkable individuals distinguished in both fields--Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, hero of Gettysburg and a professor who ended the war as one of Grant's favorite generals, or Gen. John Galvin, Supreme Allied Commander Europe in the 1980s and a noted historian of the American Revolution--the academy and barracks often look askance at one another. While the United States is in the midst of a war that obliterated part of their city, the university senate at Columbia University recently voted overwhelmingly to ban the Reserve Officer Training Corps from returning to the campus....

On April 28, First Lieutenant William A. Edens was killed in Tal Afar, Iraq, when an improvised explosive device destroyed the armored vehicle in which he was traveling. Four other U.S. soldiers died with him. Lieutenant Edens, who was 29, is survived by his wife, Christina, and by his parents. At his memorial service last week, he was remembered as "a great man, an amazing soldier and a wonderful friend" by First Lieutenant Joshua Grenard, a classmate of Eden's in the ROTC program of the University of Missouri, Columbia. Now consider a different Columbia: Columbia University, in New York City....

Taking time out from teaching hatred of Israel, Columbia University's liberal arts faculty and administration ended the academic year by indulging in a fit of preening, politically correct, self-righteousness: Senate Rejects ROTC's Return Resolution Overturned in Last Meeting of Year "The University Senate voted overwhelmingly Friday afternoon to reject the return of the Reserve Officers Training Corps to Columbia's campus..." While refusing to assist in the training of our military, Columbia's faculty posed as defenders of the downtrodden. They would, they said, be willing to reconsider when the military "no longer discriminates against gay, lesbian, and bisexual Americans."

A Columbia University body that helps set policy voted yesterday to reject a resolution calling for reinstatement of the R.O.T.C., which has been banned from the campus since 1969. Columbia students who want to enroll in the Reserve Officers Training Corps must continue to do so at nearby universities, including the Bronx campus of Fordham University. The vote is a setback for a group of students, professors and alumni who have been campaigning on campus to change the perception of the military and build momentum for the return of the R.O.T.C. Susan Brown, a spokeswoman for the university, said in...

EN ROUTE TO IRAQ -- My bosses at FOX News have sent me on assignment to the "sandbox," as our troops have taken to calling Iraq. There, I will spend time with some of the most impressive young men and women this country has ever produced. These soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Guardsmen never cease to amaze me. Their dedication, enthusiasm and resilience, even in the unforgiving heat and atmosphere of an Iraqi summer, are second to none. On the day before my departure, The Washington Times carried a front-page photo of an unidentified American soldier cradling a young Iraqi...

OPINION: Supporting The Troops? Not On Campus - Cinnamon Stillwell Wednesday, May 4, 2005 It's been a tough couple years for America's antiwar movement. Unable to effect change at the ballot box and frustrated by the lack of popular support for its agenda, the antiwar crowd has turned its sights on the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) and other military recruitment on college campuses across the country. It's becoming increasingly common for antiwar activists to stage protests and disruptions at college job fairs involving military recruiters. The greater Bay Area, in particular, has become a locus for such activity, with...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether colleges and universities may bar military recruiters from their campuses without fear of losing federal funds. Justices will review a lower court ruling in favor of 25 law schools that restricted recruiters in protest of the Pentagon's policy of excluding openly gay people from military service. That ruling, by the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, invalidated a 1994 federal law requiring law schools to give the military full access or else lose their federal funding. The appeals court ruled that the law infringed on law schools' free...

ontact UW-Madison Stop the War (member of Campus Antiwar Network, campusantiwar.net): Chelsea Lauing (608) 264-0671, lauing@wisc.edu Paul Pryse (608) 264-2700, pryse@wisc.edu Student Protest Prevents Annual ROTC Information Day at UW-Madison The Air Force Reverse Officer Training Corps (ROTC) annual information day on April 30 was cancelled. At the information day, students were “to learn about Air Force scholarship opportunities and Air Force careers” and receive free lunch, according to an e-mail sent out to the student body. According to Air Force ROTC representatives on campus, the event was cancelled due to the threat of a protest called by the University...

The Supreme Court said Monday it will consider whether colleges and universities may bar military recruiters from their campuses without fear of losing federal funds. Justices will review a lower court ruling in favor of 25 law schools that restricted recruiters in protest of the Pentagon’s policy of excluding openly gay people from military service. That ruling, by the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, invalidated a 1994 federal law requiring law schools to give the military full access or else lose their federal funding. The appeals court ruled that the law infringed on law schools’ free speech rights....

The University of Wisconsin at Madison has a history of being a harbinger for social discontent, and as such is generally unreceptive to the precepts of conservatism. The newest addition to the radical right on campus of a local chapter of an international organization called 'Protest Warrior.'Founded in the midst of the Iraq war debate, the Protest Warriors are a group than infiltrates anti-war protests and demonstrations with the intent of fulfilling their manifesto of 'arming the libert loving Silent Majority with ammo that strikes at the intellectual solar plexus of the left.'At a recent ROTC protest rally, the Protest...

Emotions Flare At War Protests On Campus MADISON, Wis. -- University of Wisconsin campus police spent the day Thursday dealing with some students who walked out of classes to protest the Iraq war, military recruiters on campus and the ROTC program. Jane Jensen of Military Families for Peace began her speech at the rally by saying she supports the troops, but that no more should be sent to war. "We support the troops by doing all we can do for the soldiers who are there now and their families," Jensen said. Then in the middle of her speech there was...

On Apr 14th, we prevented the lefties from entering the recruiter office and got lots of media attention. Here is a link to a story in the local news. I also infiltrated their march and rally. http://badgerherald.com/news/2005/04/15/demonstrators_walk_.php http://nbc15.madison.com/home/headlines/1474707.html Here is a picture of one of our signs within the pro-terrorist rally... I am holding the sign in the top left corner. The sign has a yellow border and is this sign Some of the other signs we held: Here are Some College Republicans and Freepers facing off with some radicals:The radicals that spoke included AL-Awda (Pro Hamas) and the...