ROTC at black colleges? How Pentagon aims to diversify military brass.
Posted on AllSides March 17th, 2020
From The Center
The U.S. military’s enlistees reflect the nation’s growing racial and ethnic diversity. Not so among the officers corps, and that’s a challenge for the Pentagon. Officer training on college campuses may be the answer.
As a first-generation college student in Texas, George Bolton was hooked on an Army career through the stories of the Buffalo soldiers, the black cavalry units formed in 1866 to serve on the western frontier, becoming icons of African American military service.
Today, Lieutenant Colonel Bolton runs the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) program...
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