A Harvard perspective on military service
Is military service for you? Harvard undergraduates can now answer that question more easily. The Office of Career Services (OCS) just published “After Harvard: Considering Military Service,” its newest informational guide. The guide is another example of Harvard’s warming post-Vietnam relationship with the military, and comes the same year the University reinstated a campus office for the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC), the first in 40 years. The 20-page guide was written by three members of Crimson Serves, a nonprofit group run by veterans currently at Harvard, including Navy veteran Jonas Akins ’01, M.B.A. ’12, and Army veterans Erik Malmstrom, M.B.A./M.P.A. ’12, and Robert Wheeler ’05, M.B.A. ’11. One of the missions at Crimson Serves — which also has an alumni membership — is disseminating information. “After Harvard” includes a primer on each of the U.S. military services; on the multiple paths to becoming an officer; and on the benefits of service,...