Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service brass Armistead’s descendants kept and protected

Armistead’s descendants kept and protected their family heirloom for ninety years

based upon scores of archival and previously unpublished diaries

struck fear into the hearts of military planners who knew that "yellow jack" could wipe out an entire army in a matter of weeks

In this systematic account of those principles

Making Citizen-Soldiers: ROTC and the Ideology of American Military Service brass Armistead’s descendants kept and protectedBy Micheal Neiberg This book examines the Reserve Officers Training Corps program as a distinctively American expression of the social, cultural, and political meanings of military service. Since 1950, ROTC has produced nearly two out of three American active duty officers, yet there has been no comprehensive scholarly look at civilian officer education programs in nearly forty years. While most modern military systems educate and train junior