Are the rumors true that Notre Dame is considering dropping USC from this annual rivalry football game because, in its effort to seek and destroy every armed service academy team this nation prides itself on building, there's a contract on the table to add a home- and-home series with the Coast Guard street-league squad, the Cal Poly Pomona ROTC and the Arizona Minutemen?

Each of the armed services ought to use recruiting and research funds to pay accomplished former armed service members to train children in key areas that will develop their warrior talents: physical and mental toughening, orienteering, martial arts, marksmanship, swimming, outdoor and survival skills, negotiating terrain, mechanical skills, endurance, field medicine, problem-solving workshops and the like," he writes.

Based on the physical content of combat operations, every armed service and combat arm is intended for combating some or other warfare participant.