Ivy League students heckle wounded Iraq War veteran

[Agent Sox]

ROTC is an alternative to going to a service academy.

But if you are recruiting at colleges then you are probably trying to get the dregs because people that are really committed to education are going to stick with it.

[Al B. Sure!]

But if you are recruiting at colleges then you are probably trying to get the dregs because people that are really committed to education are going to stick with it.

You do realize they do their studies as well as ROTC, right?

You do know ROTC pays for college, right?

You do know ROTC provides them with a job after school, right?

[KrazyHorse]

ROTC is for students who were too dumb to get scholarships based on merit. The armed services also recruit people like albie who are so clueless and lazy that they aren't able to get a job which requires them to think for themselves. However, unlike albie, most of the people who sign up aren't suffering from a case of terminal osteoporosis.

[Hauldren Collider]

It's also for people who want to be career military but didn't get into the service academies....

[MikeH]

So another bunch of failures.

[Egbert]

ROTC is for students who were too dumb to get scholarships based on merit. The armed services also recruit people like albie who are so clueless and lazy that they aren't able to get a job which requires them to think for themselves. However, unlike albie, most of the people who sign up aren't suffering from a case of terminal osteoporosis.

You are like a rabid dog with a fixation on Albie. You are a deranged dickhead.

[KrazyHorse]

I love him almost as much as I love you, you twit...

[Hauldren Collider]

So another bunch of failures.

Considering how selective the service academies are, I wouldn't call someone who does ROTC at UVA a failure.

[MikeH]

If they didn't try and get into the Service Academy because they thought they wouldn't get in, or tried to get in but didn't make it, they are failures.

If they genuinely wanted to not go to the Service Academy then not failures.

[Hauldren Collider]

If they didn't try and get into the Service Academy because they thought they wouldn't get in, or tried to get in but didn't make it, they are failures.

If they genuinely wanted to not go to the Service Academy then not failures.

That's like saying that someone is a failure for not getting into Harvard. Complete nonsense. Not only is it extremely academically selective, but you have to pass strict physical fitness requirements AND get a congressional nomination. Just getting through the application process is an ordeal.

[MikeH]

Your argument would fail to get into the Service Academy, enjoy ROTC.

[Al B. Sure!]

Colin Powell did ROTC

Also to add to HC, not everyone who does ROTC had the intention of doing it right away. I don't know the statistics but there are a significant number of ROTC cadets who joined up in their second semester or second year of school. Just as a lot of people switch majors, a lot of people decide on ROTC after they've started school. They may have had no intentions of being military officers coming out of high school.

[Lorizael]

So then they're indecisive flip floppers.

[Asher]

Colin Powell did ROTC

A man with no integrity.

[Al B. Sure!]

So then they're indecisive flip floppers.

I don't think it's indecisive to be unsure at age 18 coming out of high school what you want to do for the rest of your life or even just the next 8 years.