Recruit in EMU
Marines search for ‘a few good men’
By MIKE ANDERSON
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Service in the Marine Corps
seems far removed from student
life at the University, yet con
spicuously short-haired men in
uniform sit at recruiting tables in
the EMU several times a term
Are these men out to snatch
up struggling students and
sneak them out to fight on the
front lines?
Not at all, says Sergeant
Hubert Woodbury, Marine
Corps officer selection assis
tant Woodbury says the Ma
rines are looking for a few good
men here at the University to
serve as officers
"We re trying to find good
students — not necessarily out
standing — but those who work
hard at school so they'll be able
to finish,” says Woodbury, ex
plaining that a student must
receive a bachelor s degree in
order to be an officer in the
Marine Corps
"We have no desire to get
people to quit college to
become an enlisted man,” he
says
However, Dave Isenberg
University veterans association
director, says he believes the
so-called information tables
cannot be taken as completely
objective sources of informa
tion
He says the Marines manning
the tables are like salesmen who
tell untruths and omit important
details about the programs
Whatever the case. Wood
bury says some of the programs
— such as the platoon leaders
class — are indeed oriented
toward students The program
involves no commitment to the
Marines while students still are
in school and they can receive
$100 a month from the Marines
in financial assistance
Freshmen and sophomores
who choose to take advantage
of the platoon leaders class are
required to attend two six-week
training courses during the
summer Juniors, seniors and
graduates must spend 10 weeks
in a summer training session
After students receive their
bachelor's degree and attend
the training sessions, they must
serve for three years as a
ground officer, plus an addi
tional six months for every year
the student received financial
aid
Students who want a flying
position in the Marine Corps
often take advantage of the
pilot's program. Woodbury
says, a popular choice even
though it involves a six-year
commitment
Although there are a variety of
programs for men. Woodbury
says there are few training pro
grams available for women
Problems exist in recruiting
women because a Supreme
Court prohibits women from
participating in combat
Still, Woodbury says there are
some career possibilities for
women within the program
One myth involving the Ma
rines implies that once people
start in the officer training pro
gram, there is no way out he
says
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"If a person decides that a job
in the Marine Corps is not the
kind of life he wants, he can
drop out." Woodbury says
Signing into the program only
means the person has agreed to
take the officer's training, and
he must stay for the minimum
amount of training But the per
son does not actually make the
commitment to serve in the Ma
rines until completion of the
training program. Woodbury
says
Isenberg, however terms this
commitment a contract that
drastically shortens life expec
tancy ” Because the Marine
Corps primary function is to
land and secure the beach dur
ing an invasion its members
have the highest fatality rate in
the armed forces he says
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We are at this time running
down leads in the Metropolitan
area in other parts of the
country said FBI spokesman
Neil Herman
He said two special poiice-FBi
task forces previously formed
here to combat bank robbery
and terrorism were at work He
agreed without elaboration that
this is a case in which the bank
task force and the terrorism task
force have intersecting
interests
While one of the getaway cars
led to the New Jersey
apartment another led to Eve
Rosahn. a New York woman
who led a violent protest here
against the traveling Spring
boks rugby team from South
Africa
Rosahn had bail set at
$10,000 when she appeared
Thursday in court with four
other persons accused of in
citement to riot
Meanwhile in Albany N Y
federal authorities were report
ed to believe there may be a link
between the Weather Under
ground and the bombing last
month of a rugby club in
Schenectady that planned to
play a match with the Spring
boks team
"It was similar to a bomb
attributed to the Weathermen in
years past. according to
Walter Bleryman of the Federal
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
and Firearms
At the Rockland County jail,
some 25 miles north of
Manhattan, Superintendent
Elijah Coleman said Boudin and
Clark and the two men, were
being held in cells apart from
the general inmate population
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