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By KATHY H; 1ERGER
Carolina Life Editor
Sixty-seven USC students and
23 students from USC's regional
campuses are in the Saudi desert
or on their way to it, and many
National Guardsmen and reserves
still on campus will be deployed if
combat begins.
"Their empty seats in the classrooms
are evidence that what's going
on over there is very real and
that their training here is very
real," said Lt. Col. John Lockard,
who is in command or USC s
ROTC unit.
The students who went to Saudi
Arabia this past semester and those
who are preparing to ship out in
the next month are in infantry,
medical and civil affairs units. Fifteen
of the students are in USC's
ROTC program, which trains future
Army officers from USC,
Frances Marion College and Columbia
College.
Lockard said the students deployed
to the gulf face a "doubleedged
sword."
"Not only are they now deploying
to fight for their country in a
. dangerous region but they are also
losing time from their education,"
Lockard said.
USC is trying to make the transition
from student to soldier as i
smooth as it can for students who j
are sent to Saudi Arabia. The regi- >
straps office is fully refunding tui- s
tion expenses for these National s
Guardsmen and reserves, and pro- "
fessors are offering military sci- t
ence classes in the fall to ensure s
that the ROTC students get credits c
they'll miss this spring, if they (
don't get back to the United States.
"It's hard enough on them as it t
is," Registrar Luther Gunter said. s
Lockhard, who was an infantry t
platoon leader in Vietnam, said he c
will miss the students but knows v
they're needed. "I've seen war up
close and personal, and I'm the C
last person to want it to occur, but f
if we have to fight, we've got to f
put our full force on the enemy i;
and bring him home ? fast," Lockhard
said. r
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Saddam Hussein's withdrawal
from Kuwait looms closer in the
next 24 hours, National Guardsmen
and reserves on campus are
scanning the headlines with their
lives on their minds.
"We're ready ... if we have to
go," are the words from these students,
whose units will most likely
be called if a fighting war ensues
in the Middle East.
"Of course I'd much rather stay
at school and go to Five Points evt>
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to go if I'm called," international
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said.
"I think something's going to
happen ? a lot of people are upset
on both sides," Newton said. "I try
not to have an opinion as to
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"The hardest part if I do g<
called up will be making arrang(
ments for my car bill and oth(
bills. I just bought a stack c
books, and I'll need to get my mc
ney back for them. You don
know if you'll have two to_thre
days or two to three hours to tak
care of these things," Newton said
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ployment. "I don't see any peac
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deep. The United States has foug
to create world order in the U.N
and I don't think the U.N. can su
vive without the United States
said Murphy, who has written
paper on the United States' polic
role.
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USC students in the Saudi Arabia
desert scares friends as well t
family of the deployable students.
"How would you feel if one c
your best friends was sent, an
something happened to him b<
cause of oil?" political science s<
nior Thomas Rainey, a friend <
Charles Waterfall and an ROT
cadet. "Last semester we wei
talking and joking around, an
now they're gone ? just lik
that," he said, "I don't think th
United States is giving peace
chance."
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deployed. "It's always in the bac
of your mind that our cadets wi
go to war and put to use the thin^
we've taught them," Capt. Kei
Holman said.
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