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Good morning! General Mark Milley ’80, former hockey player, ROTC cadet, and now Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, visited Princeton to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Hobey Baker Rink. Milley spoke with ‘Prince’ writers Anna Salvatore and Cole Keller about hockey, ROTC, service, and January 6th. Some of Milley’s key quotes on the Capitol riot and serving as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff:
- “[The Constitution] acknowledges that we are not perfect and we weren’t perfect.”
- “So what January 6 demonstrates to me is the resilience of our country, the resilience of our people to overcome something that was very dramatic and that threatened the very sinews of our institutions.”
- “I may think the individual is — as you said — erratic, unstable or issuing unwise orders, but you want your soldiers to execute the orders of the elected officials, the American people, and you can’t have it any other way.”
Milley noted that Princeton being one of a limited number of schools to have an ROTC program was a driving factor for why he came to the University. Features contributor Sophie Glaser explores why this was the case, digging into the history behind ROTC in Princeton and in the Ivies in general. ROTC as a program faced backlash in the ’60s from anti-Vietnam War activists, though the program won students support in a key campus referendum.
Milley’s visit was situated against the backdrop of the Hobey 100 hockey games, covered by Keller, that saw that saw the men’s team come away with four points, thanks to an overtime loss against No. 9 Harvard and a win over Dartmouth. The women’s team beat both schools.
Listen to clips from the interview on On The Record.
READ THE Q&A WITH MILLEY HERE→
Analysis by Olivia Chen.
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