The Army Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) provides college-trained officers for the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard. The mission of ROTC is to develop the future officer leadership of the U.S. Army, and to motivate young people to become better citizens. This includes recruiting, training, evaluating, selecting, and commissioning quality people for military service in the Army. Nearly 70 percent of the commissioned officers in the U.S. Army are products of ROTC. As the largest single source of Army officers, the ROTC program fulfills a vital role in providing mature young men and women for leadership and management positions in an increasingly technical Army. In addition to their normal studies, students take prescribed military science courses, participate in scheduled leadership laboratories, and attend the five-week ROTC Leadership Development and Assessment Course (LDAC), normally in the summer between their third and fourth year of college (The Army also pays you $700 to attend). Upon successful completion of military science and baccalaureate degree requirements, the student will be commissioned as an officer in the United States Army.
Army ROTC is an elective course that provides a combination of academics and important hands-on training. You will be offered physical and mental challenges geared to help you succeed in college and beyond. You will learn teamwork and be given responsibilities like teaching younger cadets the same skills you have learned. You will also get paid while becoming a leader. All cadets contracted to become Army Officer earn $2,500 - $4,000 a year while enrolled in ROTC.
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
Army ROTC enhances your college experience by providing training that will make you motivated, confident, and ready, to lead. You will have practical instruction in such areas as organizational leadership, communication, and time management. The skills you learn will be ones that benefit you for entire life, whether you are a career military officer, or a business executive.
ROTC also offers opportunities and challenges that can put you on the fast track to success in life. You will develop the confidence, self-esteem, motivation and leadership skills you will need regardless of your career plans. The qualities that ROTC training instills will be vital to a productive and rewarding future.
ARMY OBLIGATION
There is NO obligation to the United States Army simply by taking courses in Army ROTC. Enrolling for this course offers you a great opportunity to learn about the United States Army. You will also gain valuable leadership experience, meet a wide variety of new people, and be able to add this course to your resume when you graduate. Non-scholarship cadets incur no obligation during the first two years (the Basic Course) of Army ROTC. At the beginning of their junior (Military Science III) year, non-scholarship cadets agree to accept a commission in the U.S. Army upon completion of the required academic and military courses. Four-year and three-year cadets incur a military service obligation beginning their sophomore year. Two-year scholarship cadets incur a military service obligation beginning their junior year.
