Army 101
Subtitle: Inside ROTC in a Time of War
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: February 9, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 111
ISBN-13: 9781570036606
Subjects: Higher & further education; Warfare & Defence; Military - United States; Higher; History; Biography / Autobiography; South Carolina; Modern - 21st Century; Military; 21st century; Army ROTC; University of South Carolina
First sentence: It has rained recently and the ground is wet and cold.
Description: Army 101 is a war correspondent's critical look at the dual lives of ROTC student-cadets. Axe spent a year interviewing and following the lives of student-cadets and trainers with the USC Gamecock Battalion ("undergrads with guns," as he labels them) to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a representative university ROTC program -- one of 270 currently in existence.