March 24, 2006

An Officer and a Professor

By WILLIAM C. CORLEY

For the past year and a half, I have been both a college professor and an officer in the military. What surprises most people is that I began those positions at almost the same time. In June of 2004, I graduated with a Ph.D. in American literature and moved my family to a new city where I had taken a job as an assistant professor. Three months later I joined the reserve component of the U.S. Navy as a commissioned officer.

College professors and military officers are rarely, if ever,

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