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"CAMBRIDGE - Chris Higgins, 21, an upbeat Harvard University junior, is a social studies major who has worked at an orphanage in Uganda and backpacked around China while learning Mandarin.
He is also a master sergeant in the Army ROTC, an officer-in-the-making who has spent weekends firing an M-16, rappelling, and honing land-navigation skills while many classmates are launching a blitz on the college social scene.
“I have a mission,’’ said Higgins, a native of East Setauket, N.Y.
That mission - to serve the country and gain leadership experience - is shared by a sharply growing number of American undergraduates, who have swollen the Army’s ROTC ranks by 26 percent, to 30,721, in the last three years..."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...09/09/27/rotcs_ranks_surge_with_new_recruits/
He is also a master sergeant in the Army ROTC, an officer-in-the-making who has spent weekends firing an M-16, rappelling, and honing land-navigation skills while many classmates are launching a blitz on the college social scene.
“I have a mission,’’ said Higgins, a native of East Setauket, N.Y.
That mission - to serve the country and gain leadership experience - is shared by a sharply growing number of American undergraduates, who have swollen the Army’s ROTC ranks by 26 percent, to 30,721, in the last three years..."
http://www.boston.com/news/local/ma...09/09/27/rotcs_ranks_surge_with_new_recruits/
