Re: JROTC/ROTC
FableAddict;435152 said:
Is anyone else a member of JROTC (high school), or ROTC (college). Im in JROTC as a LET 1, and im enjoying it.
I work out with UMD's Army ROTC. Is fun.
I like to laugh at UMD's AF ROTC. Is funny.
Arseface;435164 said:
What's a JROTC? And by extension, what's a ROTC?
EDIT: Oh, is that something to do with the military? I think Walker may have mentioned it once.
Yep. Junior Reserve Officer Trainin Corps and Reserve Officer Training Corps.
Arseface;435193 said:
I see.
Then no, I am not a part of either of those programs. I nearly joined the army once, about a year ago, but my colour blindness proved to be an issue.
I was wondering what had happened with that.
cheezMcNASTY;435245 said:
oh yeah, our ROTC uniforms (and all of them that i've seen at universities) are full camo with a cap.
they walk around with a straight face and expect to be taken seriously. not to mention that if a professor so much as comments on how ridiculous it is that they wear those to university they'll most certainly get fired. i heard the universities have a stick up their ass about it because the military gives the university a fair chunk of cash to have a program, so the university is basically their recruiting puppet.
i know a prof at Temple University got fired for making a comment on it not being halloween when an ROTC kid walked into class in full uniform.
Yep. ACUs. Taken seriously? Not so much, but they get money for walking around in those things feeling like idiots. Seriously, the only time UMD's ROTC boys and girls wear their uniforms is when they have Army classes or events and they HAVE to. The ROTC kids are officially Officer Candidates, members of the US military. As in, if they drop the program they still have to go serve out their time as enlisted men to pay the Army back for the money they gave them.
Also, laughing at them is something I'm going to classify as "complete dickery." A significant minority of the guys in UMD's ROTC program are prior service enlisted. I.E. people who have done their time, deployed to unpleasantly hot and sandy places, and are now getting their college edumacation on the government's dime. Sure, some of them are dumbass college kids. Some of them are not.
Also, no idea if the military pays to have the ROTC programs on campus. I know that UMD's Army program used to be huge (every male student was required to do two years-- they dropped that after the '60s or '70s or something) and it's been there for a long time. AFROTC is the biggest program, and the Navy and Marines have sort of subordinate programs attached to another school's program.
If I had to guess any such firings had more to do with outraged conservatives than anything else.
Also, I find it amusing that the ethnic makeup of that ROTC is almost the exact same (though smaller) as UMD's. Bunch of white guys, token Asian dude, token women, token hispanic.