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Officer programs thriving
Pay, changing attitudes draw recruits
By Frank Shaw
Of the Emerald
The black cloud hovering
over the United States economy
has a silver lining for military
recruiters
Capt Donald Durden, a Ma
rine Corps recruiting
officer from Portland,
estimates that interest
in officer training pro
grams has nearly dou
bled since 1979
The Marine Corps is
not accepting all ap
plicants, Durden
stressed, only the best
' We re looking at the
cream of the crop” he
continued, 'the upper
percent physically and
mentally ”
Air Force Master Sgt
Gary Gunnels says
applications for
AFROTC have doubled
in the year he has been
working in the North
west He also stressed
that the Air Force is
only taking the top ap
plicants
Capt Gary McCarty,
a University ROTC in
structor, thinks
feelings about the
military have changed
"Attitudes have
shifted,” he says, "and
there is no longer an
antagonistic feeling
towards the military ”
Durden agrees, say
ing college students
"see the military as a
valid career and they
feel that they are in fact
serving their country "
The University ROTC
program has increased
from eight third-year
students last year to
almost 30 for the up
coming school year-,
McCarty says
All the recruiters
agree that the poor state of the
economy is not the only reason
for the increase in interest, but
do think that it's a contributing
factor
Another reason may be the
pay
The starting salary for a
second lieutenant in the military
is about $17,000 a year Newly
commissioned officers make
$1,056 a month in base pay, a
$279 housing allowance, a $95
per month food allowance and
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care, Durden says
One reason for the increase in
interest is that the people who
are considering joining the pro
grams were not directly ex
posed to the Vietnam War, and
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Thanks to a depressed economy and recent pay
hikes, Uncle Sam is having much better success
pointing out officer candidates
see the military in a better light,
Gunnels says
"One of the keys to the suc
cess of the Navy and Marine
programs," says Lt Cmdr Mi
chael Barton, a Navy recruiter,
is that both give the candidates
the option to withdraw after they
attend the first training session
"Why wouid we want to of
ficer someone who doesn t
want to be in the service?" Bar
ton asks
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The increase in the number of
college students entering the
military will help rather than hurt
the civilian sector of the econ
omy, the recruiters say.
“The average officer in the
Marines spends only three years
on active duty and then
goes out and uses the
leadership skills they
have in the military to
help them in the civilian
sector," Durden says.
The military is
providing a ready
source of trained
professionals for the
use of the civilian in
dustry, he continued
The Army gets most
of its officers from
either the U S Military
Academy at West Point
or college ROTC pro
grams, McCarty says
The Marines, however,
receive most of their
officers through other
officer training pro
grams.
The Marine Corps
has three programs for
commissioning of
ficers, says Durden
They are the platoon
leaders class, the of
ficer candidates class
and the military
academies
Each of these, he
says, is designed for
different people The
platoon leaders class is
for freshman and so
phomores in college,
while the officer can
didates class is for col
lege seniors and
graduates
The Navy has two
programs other than
ROTC, Barton says It
has an aviation pro
gram called AVROC
which guarantees can
didates admission to
flight school, and a program for
engineers that pays $1,100 per
month for the junior and senior
year of school, with a $3,000
bonus when the person joins
The Air Force relies primarily
on its ROTC programs and on
the Air Force Academy for of
ficers, but it does have a pro
gram for college students, says
Gunnels
"It's not a free ride," warns
McCarty "We put quality peo
ple in the service "