An Officer and a Gentleman
"My father served in Vietnam, my grandfather served under General MacArthur, and my great grandfather served in World War One," Gonzalez says.
Yet while his relatives were all enlisted, Gonzalez is the first to participate in officer training. He serves as both a drill officer and a squad leader, travelling to MIT each week for three hours of class and two hours of physical training with his squad.
Upon graduation from Harvard, Gonzalez will enter the Navy as a commissioned officer and is obligated to perform four years of service. Not a problem: the government concentrator is planning a lifelong career in the armed forces and hopes to work in aviation and eventually the intelligence field.
Despite his own impressions of ROTC, Gonzalez's classmates at Harvard have expressed a more negative view toward the program.
Returning to school in uniform, Gonzalez has encountered a number of jokes about ROTC.
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