Several times a semester, MacKenzie and the handful of Columbia students who participate in the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps through Fordham University, practice tactical drills in a forest in central New Jersey or upstate New York in preparation for the work they will one day do as military officers. On Sunday after two days of simulated wartime scenarios, mostly in the rain, they return to Morningside Heights with just a few hours of sleep and papers to work on in Butler.
“It’s the equivalent of being an athlete at Columbia. Except when an athlete asks a professor for an extension, the professor says, ‘Yes,’” said Jose Robledo, GS and a veteran who hopes to return to service as an officer.
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