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There are some colleges and universities that offer ROTC programs you can look into.
A number of colleges have Naval ROTC. You can go to one of those.
Embry-Riddle has ROTC for all 3 branches
Most colleges will offer an army ROTC if the applicant is one that they particularly wish to have enter their college It is worth asking when applying to the college.
Students who are contracted ROTC cadets pay for very little in college. A full ROTC scholarship includes: tuition and fees, $600/ semester for books, and a monthly spending stipend of $300-$500 a month. Also, ROTC classes are available to all college students for free and no military obligation.
The ROTC is an organization that allows students to participate in military groups while they are still in high school and college. High school students who have been active in the ROTC can qualify for scholarships that will cover their college costs while they continue to provide active ROTC service. There are scholarships available from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine branches of the ROTC. High School ROTC Involvement ROTC scholarships are available to high school students who have shown excellence in service while they participated in their local high school ROTC chapters. These students must complete a certain number of service hours, have a high grade point average, and complete a scholarship application with an accompanying essay. The ROTC will subsidize a student’s college education if that student agrees to remain an active member of the ROTC while attending college. Working with the ROTC While in College College ROTC groups are more intense than their high school counterparts. Since students live on campus and have less structured schedules, the ROTC participates in a larger number of activities. Many students will spend their weekends working with the local National Guard troops and learning about the military while they spend their weekdays completing their civilian studies. An ROTC scholarship is meant to give students the opportunity to learn leadership and organizational skills through college classes while they continue to work closely with their military outfits. After Graduation College graduates who attended school on ROTC scholarships are immediately mustered into the service branch of their choice with an officer’s ranking. ROTC scholarships prepare students for careers that will begin as active duty officers in their chosen branch of the military. If someone completes college through an ROTC scholarship, he or she is allowed to skip the officer training that they would have had to attend otherwise. Attending school on an ROTC scholarship requires that you promise to serve in the military for a specific number of years after graduation, which means that you will have a job as soon as you leave college. The training you receive in the military will prepare you for a number of career opportunities after you finish your tour of duty.
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No. Once you are contracted with ROTC, you cannot be deployed until after you have graduated and received your commission.
The ROTC instructors in colleges and universities are military personnel and are paid the standard pay rates for their rank and time in grade.
JROTC was invented for high school students to see if there would be a better motivation to join the military, and if the students would want to further into the rotc in college to become officers.
Most military schools refer to their students as cadets. Attending one of them makes you a cadet. Military colleges (Texas A&M, VMI, Citadel, VPI) refer to members of the Corps as cadets. ROTC for the various branches may refer to their students as cadets or midshipmen (Navy).