is it easy to get into airforce rotc program and what is it and do i become a officer after i complete?

Question

any help please
do i become an officer
do i have the choice to stay 4yrs of college or do i just get 2 or3 and how do u determine how many yrs. u get
is it hard to get in
do u have to have good grades
and can u get any af job after

Answer 1

ROTC is either a 4 year program or a 2 year program.

IF you qualify you can get a full tution schollarship, along with money for books and a couple of hundred a month for pocket money. Not everybody gets the schollarship, but most people do,. Talk to the ROTC people about the regulations for how to get it and what it takes.

When you get out you will be a junior officer, (2LT). You will have a service obligation. I think it is like two years active duty and four in the reserves, but I could be wrong.

In order to get in to ROTC you have to be admitted to the college the ROTC unit serves. You can't join ROTC and expect them to get you into college. It don't work that way.

You also have to pass some tests. I think it is the AFOQT, Air Force Officer Qualifing Test. When I took it back during the Regan administration it was like a suped up ACT or SAT. Tested reasoning ability, intelligence, etc. There was also a spatial relationship part to test if you were worth sending to flight school. You will also have to be able to pass a P.T. test, (push ups, sit ups, and 1.5 mile run for USAF, 2 mile run for Army), and a background investigation. (All officers have to have at least a SECRET clearance.) They might overlook a single pot bust, but if you have been arrested for hard drugs forget it, no military unit will touch you. (Would you want some junkie in charge of maintance of the helocopter YOU were flying in?)

Yes you have to have good grades. Not great, but good. I think it was a 2.5 GPA or something back when I was in.

You don't have to join the military till the third year, so technically you can be in it for the first two years without getting any obligation. This also means that you can skip the first two years and go to a "BASIC CAMP" instead. Basic Camp is sort of like basic training, but since you are a college student and a cadet they don't treat you like a total moron all the time. You learn to march, shoot, salute, and they give you lots of leadership training, and (at least when I was in) let you go to the officers club on your weekend off. (You don't get EVERY weekend off, but you get a couple... which was nice because back in the 80s the Fort Knox officers club ROCKED.) The summer after your third year of college you go to ADVANCED CAMP which is like Basic Camp, but more is expected of you in terms of leadership. You get a class rank at Advanced Camp. That's important as higher class ranks get a better chance of getting the jobs they ask for.

You WILL serve in the military once you graduate. If you don't wash out you become an officer. If you mess up you go in as an enlisted man. You have a limited amount of say in what you do, but they don't call them ORDERS for nothing. You take the job the military needs you to do, but they try to give you a job you will like and be good at simply because putting people in jobs they hate means they do cruddy work, and we don't have time for cruddy work what with the war on.

Answer 2

Just to add on, what you study, and your grades, and what is available when you graduate will determine what capacity you will serve in. The better your grades, the better the positions that you can get into..

Answer 3

ROTC isnt hard to get into, if you want the scholarship it can be competitive though. If your going to pay your own way (or your parents are) through college, then it wont be hard to get into.