The Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) is a training program of the United States armed forces present on college campuses to recruit and educate commissioned officers. It is designed as a college elective, and studies focus on leadership development, problem solving, strategic planning, and professional ethics.
The mission of the United States Army ReserveOfficerTrainingCorps (ROTC) program is to prepare quality college students to assume the role of a commissioned officer in the United States Army upon graduation.
After completion of the ROTC program the student is obligated to serve four years in the active Army or eight years in the United States Army Reserves or Army National Guard.
It should be known that junior officers are among the highest recruited population group of people in their 20’s because of their leadership, management, and interpersonal skills.
It was patterned after the British OfficerTrainingCorps, which supplied most of the British officercorps in World War I. In 1960 General George H. Decker, ROTC commissionee at Lafayette College, became the first ROTC graduate named Chief of Staff of the Army.
ROTC is voluntary for students attending civilian colleges and universities; however, with few exceptions (as outlined in army regulation), it is required of students attending the senior military colleges and military junior colleges.
ROTC programs provide a high percentage of U.S. Military officers and represent an important part of the recruitment system, especially by injecting the officercorps with persons educated in a civilian environment.
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