Petite with luminous eyes behind a pensive stare, 20-year-old Amber Brewer looks too young to be charged with protecting the country. But don’t let her youthful appearance fool you. Brewer, an Army Reserve officer training cadet, says she’s confident that she’ll know how to handle combat and lead a platoon when the time comes. Brewer, […]
ROTC
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Arms and the classroom
To its supporters, JROTC — the Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps — is a valuable elective, teaching students discipline and responsibility. To its critics, it is a marketing opportunity for the Pentagon, designed to entice urban, principally minority high-school students into signing up for the military. And, they say, it teaches violence as a problem […]
