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Show 54 Several of the a clearer topics understanding The USMA conferees educated of the of this concerns research. generally agreed that officers should be the baccalaureate level through provided insights and covered at this conference and that this education should provide the communiciation skills, social perceptiveness, and the prestige the officer the only two programs input during ROTC and the service academies were corps needs. seriously considered peace time. to offer enlisted men officer corps. II the mil placed a context of means sources (OCS) of officer were only being necessary for entry to the professional In discussion of current roles for the service academies and ROTC, the would be viable Officer Candidate Schools occasionally addressed and then in the "primarily as on assumption seemed both with to be that continued reliance only marginal changes anticipated in either itary educati onal system or ,i n the Ameri can education. Discussions in terms of positive and negative aspects of both: Positive are system of hi gher summarized below for both ROTC and USMA Aspects: Essential in creating a pool of reserve officers. Allows distinguished graduates to enter the service with regular commissions, an alternative to the service academies. ROTC cadets are more representative of societal values - - - than service academy cadets. Provides a means to correct racial imbalances in the officer corps by appealing to minority groups on their campuses. " of college students to A channel for the "new mi x enter the professional officer corps. (There was a consensus that most campuses are experiencing a IIrevolutionll in the socioeconomic mix of students, with a significant proportional increase in low and low-middle income groups). - - |
