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Veterans

TomSlick

(11,973 posts) Thu Nov 3, 2022, 07:09 PM Nov 2022

I made an old guy appearance at the local ROTC detachment today. [View all]

The ROTC detachment at my alma mater is restarting a cadet group that started back in my day but had been allowed to lapse.

The times are very different than in my days as a cadet just after the end of Vietnam. The cadets look infinitely more like soldiers than we did in my day. They were all sincere and intelligent - if younger than I remember being as a cadet. I was impressed by them.

The future of the Army seems to be in good hands.

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I made an old guy appearance at the local ROTC detachment today. [View all] TomSlick Nov 2022 OP

When I did ROTC in the mid-late 70s COL Mustard Nov 2022 #1

The Army made the change to the rough-out boots before I retired. TomSlick Nov 2022 #2

As the saying goes.... COL Mustard Nov 2022 #3

I had never heard that - but I like it. TomSlick Nov 2022 #5

My Army ROTC program GP6971 Nov 2022 #4

The times have definitely changed - for the better. TomSlick Nov 2022 #6

At that time, the Army offered an accelerated GP6971 Nov 2022 #7

Those were hard times. TomSlick Nov 2022 #8

In the late '60s on my campus, we were pretty military but Wonder Why Nov 2022 #9

Wow. I'm impressed. TomSlick Nov 2022 #10

Thank you but it wasn't anything special. In those days, there were Wonder Why Nov 2022 #11