The Boston College ROTC company holds an open physical training session, 6 a.m., October 5, 2011.

In the dark of an autumn morning, the 34 cadets of the Boston College Army Reserve Officer Training Corps' (ROTC) Bravo Company assembled in the University's Rec Plex for 90 minutes of physical training (PT), as they do three times a week. The 25 men and 9 women, dressed in military-issue black shorts and grey t-shirts, were joined by some 20 friends and staff, there to take part in one of several PT sessions open to campus "civilians" during the school year.