Ivy League to bring back ROTC any second now, right?
20th October 2010
Instapundit passes along an excellent point from one of his readers: the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy has been ordered suspended, via judicial fiat. The military has complied with the court order, although they strongly disagree with it: there is a moratorium on enforcing DADT, and openly gay soldiers may serve. Whether you are happy with this development or not*, there is one detail about this which is kind of important: the stated reason Ivy League colleges typically give for forbidding ROTC programs on campus has just gone away. The military just stopped discharging openly gay soldiers. It’s over. The Ivy League won.
As one of the many people who attempted to get ROTC back at Yale, I’m not holding my breath–homosexuality is only one of the reasons, although perhaps the most obvious one, why ROTC was excluded from the Crustian training grounds. But this can certainly be used to embarrass the Drones In Charge about it, which is always entertaining.
October 20th, 2010 at 15:31
Honestly, how many of the Ivy League’s finest are signing up for duty in Afghanistan?
October 20th, 2010 at 16:14
More than you might suspect. But they really have to jump through hoops to do it. Harvard has a stealth ROTC contingent that does their military science classes and drills at MIT.