I’m interested in joining the AFROTC but need more information on it (I’ve looked at its site and it doesn’t answer the questions I have).
-How long do I have to be in the AFROTC during college once I join, can I begin in the middle of the academic year?
-How do cadet statuses work? How are cadets ranked? What are these rankings and what do they represent?
-I want to go into medical school, so will I be expected to serve after receiving my undergraduate degree or after I become an MD?
What are the classes like, how do they work with an average college student’s schedule?
-How much working out does joining this entail? Is there some sort of physical fitness benchmark I’d have to meet as a girl to get in and stay in the program?
-On what occasions do you have an appointment with whoever your head officer is (or whatever their position may be called)?
-Is there a specific way you must come before this head officer?
-Is it possible to be on friendly terms with your head officer or does the relationship have to be strictly formal?
-By the time I’m a senior in college, what will I have accomplished in the AFROTC? (what does the average cadet accomplish by this time)
-What’s the next step in AFROTC after graduating from college?
AS MANY OR AS LITTLE QUESTIONS YOU CAN ANSWER WOULD BE APPRECIATED!
Basically you can sign up for two or four years. You can sign up during the middle of the semester, but you would not start counting until the start of the next real semester.
Alot of the rest of your questions depend on if it is two or four years in the program. If you do two years, you have to take more classes per semester. Doing ROTC usually increases the time you are in college by a semester or a year depending on how heavy your course load is.
The basic idea is that you have weekly pt (I believe twice a week) and then you have a couple of hours worth of class time.
You have to maintain weight according to height and do certain run times and pushups and situps. If you don’t you can’t get your stipend, or a scholarship and will be placed on probation.
Then during the summer you do your field training. The next summer or summers after that you can do things that are more like summer camp:tour a base, go to a training school for a little while.
Since it trains you for your time in the military, you most likely won’t be pals with your head officer, but hopefully you will be on friendly terms. AKA- you wont go to his house for a barbeque and beers, but you will say hi and go to him if you need advice.
After you graduate ROTC, you get your commission as a 2nt lt. I BELIEVE you can delay your commission to go to medical school or law school, but am not sure. I do know that you can do ROTC in law school (and would think medical school as well). If so, why not do it then?
From what I have seen, you can still be a normal college kid in alot of respects. You will have a little less free time, and will have to watch your behavior a little more (representing the armed forces). But it is def the easiest way to get your commission.
July 31st, 2009 at 1:47 am
Basically you can sign up for two or four years. You can sign up during the middle of the semester, but you would not start counting until the start of the next real semester.
Alot of the rest of your questions depend on if it is two or four years in the program. If you do two years, you have to take more classes per semester. Doing ROTC usually increases the time you are in college by a semester or a year depending on how heavy your course load is.
The basic idea is that you have weekly pt (I believe twice a week) and then you have a couple of hours worth of class time.
You have to maintain weight according to height and do certain run times and pushups and situps. If you don’t you can’t get your stipend, or a scholarship and will be placed on probation.
Then during the summer you do your field training. The next summer or summers after that you can do things that are more like summer camp:tour a base, go to a training school for a little while.
Since it trains you for your time in the military, you most likely won’t be pals with your head officer, but hopefully you will be on friendly terms. AKA- you wont go to his house for a barbeque and beers, but you will say hi and go to him if you need advice.
After you graduate ROTC, you get your commission as a 2nt lt. I BELIEVE you can delay your commission to go to medical school or law school, but am not sure. I do know that you can do ROTC in law school (and would think medical school as well). If so, why not do it then?
From what I have seen, you can still be a normal college kid in alot of respects. You will have a little less free time, and will have to watch your behavior a little more (representing the armed forces). But it is def the easiest way to get your commission.
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I seriously considered it and went to talk to the AFROTC commander on campus.