From: bulkem@lib106.its.rpi.edu (Mark Andrew Bulkeley)
Subject: Re: Cadets
Reply-To: bulkem@rpi.edu
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 17:42:32 GMT

In article <BALDWIN.92Dec14094628@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil>, baldwin@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil (J.D. Baldwin) writes:
|> In article <1992Dec13.221643.25390@epas.toronto.edu>
|> nusbache@epas.utoronto.ca (Aryk Nusbacher) writes:
|> >Do they have ongoing contact with neighbouring reserve units, or even
|> >with neighbouring regular units? 
|> 
|> Good question.  I'd be interested to know this, too.  I'd be
|> surprised, of course, if there were *no* contact (that would waste a
|> valuable training resource), but I wonder if the contact is
|> established and, as you put it, "regular."
|> --

From my experiance here at the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Unit at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute I have found that there is no contact with any units in our area.  Our geographic position my have something to do with this, being located in Troy, NY.  But, there is a reserve center in nearby Albany, and no effort is made to have any joint training, or anything of the sort.

Our unit does sponser field trips to places like Groton (for subs), Newport
(for surface) and Pensacola (for aviation).  The field trips are in spring when our school has GM or Grand Marshal week.  This is when all the student government elections are held and professors are asked to give a light load (NO TESTS!)

But anyways, what benefits could be derived from such a contact with local units (at least in our case)  The reserve center in Albany is modest, and  I don't believe there are any surface crafts to ride around in, just a training center.  One of my friends here at school is formerly elisted and is still in the reserves.  He drills monthly at Albany, but does nothing more (at least what's been explained to me) than watch video tapes (although I'm sure he really does more then that).  So, maybe there would b

e some sort of benefit in the two Units contact, but I can't see it.


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MIDN 2/c Mark Bulkeley, writing on terms of anonyminity

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