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To: greenspirit who wrote (65822)	1/13/2003 4:32:11 PM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

he successfully recruited highly qualified black officers into the service. Never going to happen, but I believe we would be better off if all of our Officer Corps was ROTC. Free ride in College in exchange for 4 years of service, with the best picked to go career.

To: greenspirit who wrote (65822)	1/13/2003 4:35:08 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Thanks for the post, Michael. I think Powell got that approach from universities. It's been done there for a very long time. We had one on my most recent campus as early as sometime around 1977 and 1978. Very aggressive. The degree of aggression waxed and waned, as it were, however, over the next 25 years or so and, to work well, always required extra effort. Most of us pushed to have it so institutionalized it would simply be a part of the landscape. But had uneven success. Recruitment is a large part of what any admissions office at private universities does so it should be institutionalized there. But as I said, we had uneven success. Mostly it worked if we pushed hard. It would last for a few years in the sense there would be a person on the staff hired to pay attention; that person would do a good job and then move on to some other locale. And the process would start all over.