A Retreat From Big Cities Hurts ROTC Recruiting

by E Wayne Ross on February 24, 2007

Wall Street Journal: A Retreat From Big Cities Hurts ROTC Recruiting

The ROTC program at St. John’s University here seems perfectly placed for an Army that’s desperate for officers who are bilingual and comfortable in foreign lands. About 40 of the 120 students speak second languages, including Turkish, Korean, Mandarin, Hindi, Albanian, and Gujarati.