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Ro it rotc program. how did that experience shape you? i have a great picture of you. you look about 12 in this one. >> well, it really turned me into a leader. rotc does this wonderful thing where you come in they teach you how to lead yourself first. then the next year you're leading two or three people. the next year it's five or ten. then you're leading a platoon. for those that believe that leadership can't be taught really the entire u.s. military stands in opposition. it's a deliberate approach to understanding leadership. that's what you get out of rotc. >> how about the campus culture...

Hill." i'm patrick murphy. in president obama's 2011 state of the union address, he called on america's colleges to open their doors to rotc programs and military recruiters. for some this wasn't an easy sell. the nation had been in a decade of controversial wars. "don't ask, don't tell" had recently been repealed. but now rotc programs are back. even at traditionally liberal elite universitys that once so forcefully opposed them. schools like columbia harvard, brown, and uc berkeley. joining me now is tommy sowers a visiting assistant professor at duke university, his alma mater, and now the ...