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Army ROTC will give you valuable real-world tools and leadership skills that will benefit not only your professional career but your personal life as well.
Army ROTC is an elective curriculum you take along with your required college classes. It prepares you with the tools, training and experiences that will help you succeed in any competitive environment. Along with great leadership training, Army ROTC can pay for your college tuition, too. You will have a normal college student experience like everyone else on campus, but when you graduate, you will be an Officer in the Army.
Being an Officer in the U.S. Army means you're a leader, a counselor, a strategist and a motivator. It's similar to being a vital manager in a corporation. As an Officer, you will lead other Soldiers in all situations and adjust in environments that are always changing. You'll be driven to achieve success with your team on every mission.
Army ROTC is a one-of-a-kind experience. The challenges you face and the obstacles you'll overcome will prepare you for future success.
Army ROTC is one of the nation's top leadership programs, with many benefits to joining.
Through Army ROTC you can:
- Get help with your college tuition with an Army ROTC scholarship
- Gain experience you can't find anywhere else
- Gain the respect of your peers and future employers
- Train to become a leader and manager
Enroll in ROTC during your freshman year and you will take these elective courses that lay the groundwork toward becoming an Army leader.
During your junior and senior years, you will focus on small unit training and the transition to becoming an Army Officer.
For students who have not taken the Basic course, this intensive four-week course takes place in the summer before your junior year to give you the same skills as Cadets who have completed the Basic Course.
Leader Development & Assessment Course
This is a key milestone to your becoming an Army Officer Usually taken between the junior and senior years, this summer training and evaluation experience allows you to show and put into practice many of the team-building and leadership practices you've already learned, and gives you even more of the tools you'll need to become a leader for life.
- The Campus Cadre
- Making Officers, Building Leaders
THE CAMPUS CADRE
I think the most important part of every ROTC program is the Cadre. They are men and women who have been around the world experienced very different things. They come from different backgrounds in terms of what they've done in their military career.
The role of the Cadre is really two fold. One is obviously the real world specific Army experience here's how you go out and do this specific task that you're going to have to do as an Army Officer and that's important to have the tools to go out and do the job every day. The Cadre brings that. But Army ROTC really has a whole person focus so it's important for the Cadre to not just come in and teach those tools pull out a manual and show somebody how to do something.
The Cadre they have a variety of roles to play, mentor, teacher, you know sometimes disciplinary, and you know they are all real personable; they're all real easy to talk to. They are really there to help us out - we're their first priority. They give a lot of feedback and I think that's important in becoming a leader.
They set us up to handle all situations by ingraining in us different leadership values, different moral beliefs, and then working in practical exercise and then applying these beliefs, and then working through physical things that we're going to see in the real world. They have so much experience in the military they have so much to offer so when they are teaching the classes they are not just showing the slides, they're sharing experience. So that's a great benefit to me because you know, that's my future.
