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There is an old saying that if you say something over and over again people will believe its true. Recently the media has been saying that the Reserved Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is back at Harvard and many other universities since the “Don’t ask, Don’t Tell” law was reversed. This is simply not true. If you use the Army or Navy/Marines locator to find ROTC programs in Massachusetts you will not find one at Harvard. If you put in the name of the school Harvard you will come up with Massachusetts Institution of Technology (MIT). If you tap on the name Harvard below MIT you will be directed to MIT ROTC. If you Google Harvard ROTC Army you will be sent back to MIT ROTC program. In the 70’s – 90’s the Department of Defense radically changed its ROTC programs with only select voluntarily schools hosting ROTC.
In the five county areas, Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Racine, Kenosha, around here there is Only One Universities with any ROTC programs on campus. This University has three ROTC programs on campus and is Marquette University. Harvard has no ROTC programs on Campus.

Both sides, pro and anti ROTC, seem to have difficulty accepting this reality of ROTC and the Department of Defense encourages the myth since it gives more prestige and creditability to military programs that are seriously flawed academically, ethically and morally. But the truth is that on the Army ROTC locator web site it says “Many universities and colleges in the country offer an Army ROTC curriculum. Search ROTC programs and contact that school’s Military Science department for more information on their particular program.” On the Navy/Marines locator site there is a list of Navy Reserved Officer Training Corps Programs in each state. In Massachusetts you will not find Harvard, despite all the hype in media about it returning to Harvard and in Wisconsin you will find only two schools in Wisconsin with NROTC programs, Marquette and University of Wisconsin in Madison.

Now I am being repetitive complaining how repeating something, false or true, fact or not, misinformed or informed does not make it so. Repetition is a teaching method but it has little to do with reality.

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