BTDTGTTS*Hearken back to 1978, Fort McClellan, Alabama. Cadet Donovan is engaged in CTLT, or Cadet Troop Leading Training, which was a 3 week add-on to ROTC summer camp. Cadets fanned out across the Army (West Pointers could score CTLT in Europe or Korea, but not us cheap kids at land grant universities) and were supposed to assume Lieutenant-level leadership positions in actual units. Some units were good at actually letting the cadets get their teeth into it. Others treated the CTLT cadets as tag-alongs. I got lucky. I spent three weeks as the functional XO of a Basic Training company. The real XO,...
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Aug 31 2010, 06:31 AM
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