Kaitlyn Benitez-Strine, 17, from left, speaks with ROTC representatives Anna Thompson, 22, and Isabel Lopez, 18, at Stanford University, April 29, 2011, in Stanford, California. Following a ban of about four decades, Stanford and many of the nation’s elite universities are welcoming back the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps after Congress in December repealed the ban on gays serving openly in the military. (Dave Getzschman/Los Angeles Times/MCT)