Speakers and attendees reflected on the importance of honoring members of the military at Cornell’s annual Veterans Day ceremony in Sage Chapel Friday.
A squad of 12 cadets stealthily crept through the woods in Mount Pleasant brandishing dummy rifles, grenades and bazookas. Their mission: find and attack the enemy bunker. The exercise was one of many that were completed from Thursday to Sunday as part of this fall’s Army ROTC Field Training Exercise.
U.S. Air Force Special Agent Phil Caruso ’08, who deployed to Afghanistan in February, said he feels lucky to be alive after he saw an Afghan child tug at wires buried beneath the ground.
On the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War, The Sun is republishing profiles of Cornellians who served in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on its website. The entire series can be accessed here.
Cornell Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is grappling with the recently-stayed court injunction against “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” — a policy that forbids gays and lesbians from openly serving in the armed forces.
Petraeus addressed questions about the challenges of establishing a viable Afghan government, the cause of some military successes in Iraq, the military’s increased reliance on contractors, the relationship between civilian and military leadership and minimizing civilian causalities, among other topics.
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