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Biography
Paul N. Kotakis is the special assistant to the U.S. Army Cadet Command chief of public affairs. He has served
with the U.S. Army Cadet Command since 1986, including as the command’s public affairs officer and the deputy
director of marketing and outreach. He received an undergraduate degree in history and an ROTC commission from
Washington University in Saint Louis, and an MA from Webster University. Kotakis served in a variety of command and staff assignments in Europe and the United States.

Notes
1. National Defense Act of 1916, Pub. L. No. 64-85, 39 Stat.
166 (1916).
2. Generals Colin Powell and Hugh Shelton served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Col. Nancy Jane Currie-Gregg
was a NASA astronaut. Former and current Army chiefs of staff
include Gen. of the Army George C. Marshall Jr. and Generals George H. Decker, Fred Weyand, Gordon Sullivan, Peter
Schoomaker, George Casey, and Mark Milley.
3. Former secretaries of state are Dean Rusk and Colin Powell.
Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. serves on the U.S. Supreme Court.
4. Stand-To!, “Army Reserve Officers’ Training Corps,” U.S.
Army website, 2 December 2015, accessed 24 March 2016, http://
www.army.mil/standto/archive_2015-12-02/.
5. Hugh Hastings, Public Papers of George Clinton: First
Governor of New York, 1775-1795 and 1801-1804 (Albany: State
Legislature Printer, 1899-1914), vol. VII: 145–46; Arthur T.
Coumbe, Lee S. Harford, and Paul N. Kotakis, U.S. Army Cadet
Command: The 10 Year History (Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press,
2010), 7–8.
6. “History of Norwich University,” Norwich University website,
accessed 24 March 2016, http://about.norwich.edu/legacy/history/.
7. Alden Partridge, “National Defence [sic],” lecture at
Windsor, Vermont, June 1841, synopsis found in New York
Military Magazine: Devoted to the Interests of the Militia throughout the Union, Vol. I (New York: LaBree & Stockton, 1841), 303,
accessed 24 March 2016, https://books.google.com/books?id=c0c5AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA303&lpg=PA303&dq=Partridge,+identified+in+views,+in+feelings+and+interests,+with+the+g
reat+body+of+the+community.&source=bl&ots=mfDadY8fwu&sig=wvE6SGkO3QNXFYSwA4zlew6V4A0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj61Luc3dnLAhWJ7yYKHcacBq8Q6AEIODAG#v=onepage&q=Partridge%2C%20identified%20in%20
views%2C%20in%20feelings%20and%20interests%2C%20
with%20the%20great%20body%20of%20the%20community.&f=false; Coumbe, Harford, and Kotakis, U.S. Army Cadet Command:
The 10 Year History, 7–8.
8. Coumbe, Harford, and Kotakis, U.S. Army Cadet Command:
The 10 Year History, 8.
9. Ibid, 7–8.

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10. Morrill Act, Pub. L. No. 37-108, 12 Stat. 503 (1862); Coumbe, Harford, and Kotakis, U.S. Army Cadet Command, 9.
11. Coumbe, Harford, and Kotakis, U.S. Army Cadet Command, 9.
12. Ibid., 9–10.
13. Ibid., 10.
14. Ibid., 13.
15. Ibid., 300.
16. George C. Marshall, Biennial Reports of the Chief of Staff
of the United States Army to the Secretary of War: 1 July 1939-30
June 1945 (Washington, DC: Center of Military History, 1996),
9, accessed 24 March 2016, http://www.history.army.mil/html/
books/070/70-57/CMH_Pub_70-57.pdf.
17. Coumbe, Harford, and Kotakis, U.S. Army Cadet Command,
301.
18. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Vitalization Act of 1964,
Pub. L. No. 88-647, 70A Stat. 119 (1964).
19. “The Vietnam Lotteries,” Selective Service System
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20. Coumbe, Harford, and Kotakis, U.S. Army Cadet Command,
301.
21. Ibid., 299–305.
22. Ibid., 114.
23. George W. Bush, “President Outlines War Effort” (remarks
by the president to the George C. Marshall ROTC Award Seminar
on National Security, Virginia Military Institute, 17 April 2002), accessed 24 March 2016, http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.
gov/news/releases/2002/04/text/20020417-1.html.
24. Colin L. Powell, quoted in George W. Bush, “President
Outlines War Effort.”
25. “The Cadet Command Cultural Understanding and Language Proficiency Program,” U.S. Army Cadet Command website,
accessed 25 March 2016, http://www.cadetcommand.army.mil/culp/.
26. Gen. Mark Milley, quoted in Kristin Qian, “General Mark Milley ‘80 Talks Service at Alumni Day,” The Daily Princetonian, 21 February 2016, accessed 24 March 2016, http://dailyprincetonian.com/
news/2016/02/general-mark-milley-80-talks-service-at-alumni-day/.
27. Ibid.

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