[rollei_list] Re: Jerry and his Home Computer
- From: Jerry Lehrer <glehrer@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:22:06 -0800
Marc,
Very close, 1953. I went for a degree in English too.
I even had to turn in my Cadet Major's insignia, I gave them the whole
"blouse,"
as they called the belted jacket in military parlance. I kept the
shoes, shirts, trench coat
and trousers.
They even wanted me to return the 90 cents per day stipend they paid for
2 years,
but they could hear me laughing as I drove off to Baltimore in my MG-TD Mk2!
Jerry
Marc James Small wrote:
At 07:36 PM 2/11/2007, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
>Marc,
>
>I vehemently resent your assertion that I "dodged" military servitude.
>I served 4 years in the ROTC
>and then upon graduation. I was ready to receive a commission as a 2nd
>Lt. The Army said " no, thanks,
>we don't want you", in effect. They even said "Keep your uniforms but
>turn in all your brass buttons and
>emblems"!
If you are 77 today, that would have been around 1952, so I am
surprised. The Army was enrolling everyone they could find at that time.
There was a drawdown under the Eisenhower administration but even then
ROTC graduates were allowed to pull their two years of obligated service.
You were allowed to keep your uniform as it was your "commutation
uniform"; I still have mine, from 1970. Your unit crests and the
like were unit issue and, so, had to be returned. (My ROTC unit was
disbanded in 1991 and I attended the ceremony as a representative of
the 80th Division. They were handing out the old unit crests like
candy.)
Marc
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