Defense Secretary Ash Carter visited his alma mater for the first commissioning since the Vietnam era of cadets and midshipmen who participated in the program for all four years of college. “Whether you like the military or not, it is a big segment of our society.” “We want to produce students who are leaders in every segment of our society,” said Haller, now an emeritus professor who led a faculty committee that helped pave the way for the ROTC’s return to Yale. “People were just so outraged,” Haller said.įour decades on, however, he views the ROTC through a different lens. Yale’s faculty considered the presence of ROTC, which trains future officers and provides college scholarships, to be tacit support for an unpopular war. Like many American schools at the time it was gripped by protests against the Vietnam War.
US Defense Secretary Ash Carter (L) administers the officer oath to Yale ROTC students at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, US May 23, 2016.
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