What's JROTC like?

Tactical bowl cut

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Overweight usually problem kids.

ROTC is better since its a real army program. Usually fairly high PT scores, motivated, but since cadetland is this interesting place they have little exposure to the big army.

Are Military High Schools any better?

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>Spending school literally larping as a soldier

Jesus H

Lol no. Everyone would talk about their parties and shit all the time. I met my LE4 when I was leaving my drug dealers place and she was walking in.
It's just an alternate for a health class since most jrotc have a pt day and teach veeeeeery basic life saving skills.
I was in for the instant pfc promotion after boot but ended up not even joining. Another plus is if your program has a target shooting section. How many kids get to say they shot guns in school?

>How many kids get to say they shot guns in school?
Aren't those faggy airguns though?

10% are kids like your picture, the rest are there to have an easy class and get out if gym.

Not really.

I have a friend who went to Valley Forge and he just commissioned... hes 20.

When we attended training while cadets he was somewhat immature and would mess about alot.

Just because West Point, Norwhich and VMI are prestigious doesn't mean that the best officers come from them. You have to be politically connected or just lucky to get in most of the time.

The commie LT got through West Point.

100% of JROTC girls are the school bicycles
so yeah it's pretty good at preparing you for the real military

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CAP cadets

>mfw my JROTC had demilled M1's but sold them to fund the program and got these shitty prop guns to replace them
I was so fucking mad

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>the jrotc reality

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pic related

Met first (and only) gf there.
Now I'm grateful to be alone.

My school used it for the dumping ground of non english speaking asians kids, kids who were just above the cut off for special ed and fat kids who wouldn't pass gym.

Sad really, recruiters can't even compete with the college scouts since it's like why join as an e-1 when you can get a bachelor's on football and a shot at the NFL? Didn't make NFL? Got that degree

I was apart of one with a shooting team that was able to bring two teams to state every year. It was 10/10, got to spend 3 hours practicing shooting in a controlled environment every week and also got the chances to compete.

Our shooting teams cleaned house every drill meet with 123 finishes every time.

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JROTC was comprised almost totally of white dudes and black girls, there were a few white chicks but they were always aids infested hoes for some reason. There was the occasional black guy and spic but they just took the class for a free period. The black girls were the ones that tried the hardest, half the white guys were there for a free period and half tried harder than the black girls. The leadershit at my school was 2 white guys and the rest were blacks girls in the top officer roles. Half the people there gave literally 0 shits, the other half were prime military LARPers or took it way too seriously, some bloused their jeans into their boots and tucked their shirts in.

T. Cadet when I was in high school

The politically connected thing is really false. Service academies take some really good grades, really good SAT/ACT, and varsity in some sport for the most part. Of course it's a little easier if you're a minority. For places like Norwich, VMI, Valley Forge, those are all the schools for people who couldn't get into service academies and they're actually paying for their schooling unless they get ROTC scholarships. Back when I was thinking of it, VMI had only 50% of cadets actually going into the military after they graduate. I did a "spend the night" thing in the dorms. It was with rats just bitching about how much they hated the place. Accepted into VMI, had a senator nomination into USAFA but was medically disqualified, but I got into a good engineering school with type 1 (full tuition paid for) AFROTC scholarship so went with that and fly fighters now. No intention of trying to become a general or anything, so no regrets of not getting into the academy for medical things that the flight physical people didn't even care about.

>some bloused their jeans into their boots and tucked their shirts in
ouch

>Aren't those faggy airguns though?
Yee

> medically disqualified for USAFA
> medically qualified to fly fighter jets
How the fuck?

Yeah, I needed a medical waiver just to be in the academy or AFROTC (AFROTC waived it immediately) but didn't need any waivers for my flight physical. Good medical screening process right there.

Yeah, unfortunately the program attracted a LOT of autists, but a few years later, I see that it's like the actual army

some units are sad and small and unmotivated and you'd be better off spending your time elsewhere

i went to a unit with hundreds and hundreds of cadets, went orienteering into Fort Sam Houston all the time, went to flight school, went to two leadership courses over two summers, and it was a fucking fantastic time

It's a bunch of either overly patriotic kids, military nerds, or people just looking for an easy A packed into a room with a couple retired army teachers trying to teach them the most basic of leadership skills. Expect everyone who's spent more than a year to have a chest full medals and useless ribbons. When year 3 or 4 comes around you pretty much can't wear all the awards you get since they gave them out like candy. Because there is a chain of command that is almost exclusively populated by high school kids expect a lot of babies first power trips and plenty of easily avoidable fuck ups. If you're lucky your teachers will have plenty of cool stories to tell when class is about to let out. When I was in it we had a vietnam vet who was a really great guy, helped kids out outside of class and made class not boring, a rarity among all of the teachers I've had. And maybe depending on how well funded your program is you get some after school clubs.

t. was in it for 4 years and was a company commander for 2 of them

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Lmao every time I'd see those JROTC kids with those fat stacks they'd just remind me of South American dictators

This just looks silly

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>3 cords on the same shoulder
My teachers put a stop to that shit real quick and made a rule that only 1 cord per shoulder was allowed so it doesn't look like total garbage. The stupid huge ribbon racks and club pins were still a problem though.

you don't need anything more than an airgun to teach marksmanship

I thought her name tag said childless. I laughed pretty hard.

I know people who had all of the above, but no political clout and didn't get in.

Why do you think certain groups that had USMA parent alumni or well known senators/reps recommending them get in?

DON'T BE MEAN. THANK HER FOR HER SERVICE

She looks like a fucking North Korean General or Dictator

senior year of High school I had reached officer ranks and jrotc so we had to teach cadets. One of my cadets was one of the special ed kids
I quit real fast.

Kek, I had a special ed kid in my battalion, I feel bad for making fun but during a parade he put his beret on backwards and turned right during a column left and kept walking into the crowd until his family got him, the instructors didnt invite him to much after that.

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JROTC is what aspie nerds like to pretend is a springboard into the elite portions of the military. In reality, those positions are far better suited for the star athletes. It's an hour a day where you learn basic drills, marching, cleaning, and have quasi military sounding ranks.... that mean absolutely nothing. You tell anybody in the big boy military that you did JROTC and they'll laugh.

YOU4RE DISRESPECTING MY FUTURE US ARMY EX-GF

3 years of JROTC will let you enlist as E2 iirc.

wow. I was a volunteer at 15 and we had to sleep in 40 to room barracks and one of my dormmates lost his foot in a live fire night exercise. Every morning we had to be at the end of the bed before second bell doing push ups and chanting 'I am already dead' . I fucking hated it. Then again there was a war on. America is wierd

Absolute fact. I somehow became the CO in my jrotc unit, and all I did was nail the slutty girls in my unit. Good fucking times.

I was a part of our marksmanship team, never got to go anywhere my freshman year because I sucked so bad, then sophomore year I snapped my arm and didn't do anything except tinker around with pellet guns in the armory.
Jow Forums as fuck

You think your puny bullets can penetrate my psychokinetic forcefield?

Literally just drill, firing pellet guns, and PT. Also military class where you pretend you know how to read a map and give half assed presentations on the Korean War. We also had a drill team at the military school I went to, literally the only reason anyone joined was to get the red beret.

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I was in NJROTC for two years. God awful experience. My Commanders were both the fuddiest of the Fudds and never did anything interesting on active duty and the unit was full of niggers that smelled like tacos and fat girls.

So it's like scouting and shit, it can be ok or suck ass depending on the troop leaders?

Not at all, they're still autistic spergs.
Exactly, JROTC kids rarely get ROTC scholarships/officer contracts because one of the three boxes you need checked off is a varsity sport.

The Army wants jocks, not autistic nerds.

A complete and utter trash waste of time.
I did it for a year in high-school, hated all of the weirdos around me, and quit for varsity football.

Got a contract to a senior military college and the first thing the cadet cadre did when I showed up was to roast the few former JROTC kids and tell them they probably wouldn't make it.
Former JROTC kids don't do well at senior military colleges or academies, always a higher drop rate and their classmates do their best to haze the aspergers out of them.

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was a cadet in the uk

most probably joined up

half were just like children only maybe 1 percent were tought guys and would probably make spec ops the rest would probably die in the first salvos of the rocket baradge or were targets/cannon fodder

I am guessing the real army is like the same

>What's JROTC like?

Gay and full of kids who, if they stay in it beyond a year, think they're "basically real soldiers".

>Exactly, JROTC kids rarely get ROTC scholarships/officer contracts because one of the three boxes you need checked off is a varsity sport.

Also this. I quit after a year because the "cadet leadership" got mad that I chose to buckle down and concentrate on the post season wrestling tourneys instead of doing a bunch of JROTC bullshit. I was literally the only kid in the """"""""""battalion"""""""""" who got a Varsity Sports ribbon. The assistant Army instructor made them give it to me because I went to the state tourney that year.

cadet ribbons/awards were a mistake.

ROTC is a commitment to comission and involves a service obligation. JROTC as an after school program for students too dumb for college and too weak for sports.

there is no reason to ever join JROTC
>you can enlist as an E-2!
There are lots of easy ways to earn an E-2 before enlisting, passing a PT test and doing some online courses being the easiest. E-3 only requires some college education, E-4 usually needs a bachelor's degree, which begs the question why you're not going OTS.

ROTC can be joined by any college student as long as you have ~2 years left before graduation. Only reason to choose ROTC over OTS is for the scholarship, but you can join OTS and get your college debt wiped out so what's even the point? Service Academies are self-explanitory.

The only point of a military style highschool or college (e.g. VMI) is because you desire the seriousness/culture to help focus on education rather than other distractions.

It was a fun class. You'll make some pretty cool bros since you compete against the other jrotc classes/schools. You'll get a promotion or something if you are enlisting, but nigga you dumb for enlisting in the first place. Better exercise than phys Ed. Probably best thing I got from it was learning how to iron clothes really fucking good. Tbqhf it's fantasy slice of life military larp.

>Only reason to choose ROTC over OTS is for the scholarship
You can also be a bigger shitbag.
Army OCS is pretty selective, College ROTC you just have to pass PT tests and not drop out of school.
Senior military college like VMI, A&M, Citadel, etc... guarantee active duty if you're not competitive for it.
It's basically trading being hazed for four years for the ability to knock some poor normal school schmuck out of his commissioning spot and send him to your reserve/guard spot.
But also, the active cutoff is real low, so you'd have to be a big shitbag to need to use it.

>ROTC over OTS is for the scholarship
Doesn't OTS/OCS make you last in the pecking order? If you want to be a pilot, isn't a commission thourhg USAFA or ROTC more likely to get you commissioned as a pilot than OTS?

If you were very smart the best choice would be to
>Graduate HS
>~2 years to get an associate degree at local community college in your field of study
>have excellent GPA because CC doesn't purposefully fail 20% of your classmates
>use community college's affiliation program with state college for guaranteed acceptance at 4 year university
>join ROTC for scholarship or don't
>graduate 4 year university in ~2 years
>become the butter bar with a better GPA and less $ spent
or, you know, service academy, but it is very easy to be waitlisted despite excellent HS GPA + varsity sports, especially if you're trying USAF.

Yes.

The order of handing out branching assignments usually goes West Point, Academies, universities, then OCS.

Academy > ROTC > OTS/OCS is the pecking order.

But if you want to be an army helicopter pilot, just go warrant and tell college to go fuck itself.

All my platoon leaders were girls, two Mexicans and a thicc white chick. Getting to pick up my sweaty CO for fireman's carry relay was nice.

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I did something like this.

Went to community college for a year, transferred and joined ROTC for an accelerated program. Got done in 3 years, no college debt because NG took care of tuition.

Now I'm a 91A bout to leave for BOLC

You can do almost all of that, jump into an SMC like VMI, Citadel, A&M, V-Tech, etc... junior year and get all the benefits of a senior military college with none of the work.

But also, it's not that big a deal unless you're a shitbag and just super-duper need to kick some normal ROTC guy out of his active duty spot.
(Which you should be able to get yourself without that unless you have a 180 PT score and a 2.1 GPA)

>Now I'm a 91A bout to leave for BOLC
>Ordnance
Living the Jow Forums dream.

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Tried to get EOD, but I guess the schoolhouse is crazy backed up. Had something like 560 applicants this year, only 80 something slots.

But then again I don't really mind because EOD wasn't a deal breaker. I would like to at some point in my career get to a group and help run their logistics.

The SF groups use normal ordnance officers so its not uncommon for them to be attached.

>You want EOD or SF
You're probably high speed then, good job.
Most guys that go ordinance are some mix of fat, retarded, and lazy, so you'll definitely rise to the top.

Better than going infantry and burning out surrounded by other bright stars.

There are some pretty bright ordnance officers, but I think the reason many are unmotivated is simply because it wasn't the job they wanted.

OD isn't exactly the most stellar place and never fills up during ROTC branching so naturally they snag people to be ordnance.

Mexicans look whiter than those two Caribbean niggers

the only answer is to get into a sport

Imagine getting snagged for Chem.

And then killing yourself.

Would've found the nearest gun in my house and insert barrel here.

Chem is only a good job if nothing bothers you. Its also the place to be if you intend to stay for a long time, and want no friction to rising over time

Friend of mine had put Infantry at the top of his list, and guess what.

He got his 7th, quartermaster. RIP

Kek
Top tier Marine Corps contract in TX joined my outfit straight out of JROTC and quit on the second day, can confirm.

Did they bully you that hard?

Not him, but at mine they beat us with axe handles and buried us alive in wooden boxes in the woods as freshmen.
I lost 45lbs in two months and almost failed out my first semester.
Shit's ruff.

Blonde and ching chong to the right are bangable

CAP Cadets do a lot more military shit and may even get flying lessons.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cadet_Special_Activities

They even have their own Ranger School/Camp
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawk_Mountain_Ranger_School

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Muh sides

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none of them look white you brown skinned goblin

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JROTC is for fuckups and retards who want to larp as soldiers because of their daddy issues
CAP is like Boy Scouts for the Air Force but far less impressive sounding

Minorities and fat chicks, it practically the Army.

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It's basically boyscouts for fat hispanic kids and nerdy black kids that get bullied by the real black kids.

As Someone who did both CAP and JROTC ill tell you now that JROTC has some weirdos and creeps but at least 10% are socially adjusted and not autistic while CAP was like maybe 5%. I enjoyed CAP more because my squadron had some actual cool people but home schoolers absolutely ruin the program. And of course in both people took themselves way to seriously like they thought they were special forces or some shit, JROTC was worse in that regard. Did help me get E3 though and a few decent friends so i guess it wasnt a complete waste of time.

I'm currently in CAP and I completely concur. I'm currently on the verge of quitting. Should I?

Not him, but 100%.
It has nothing to do with the real world/real military because everything is extremely-kids-gloves.

Also the airforce is gay.
You will 100% enjoy your teenage years more if you quit, make some good friends, and spend that time exploring the woods, hiking, camping, etc...

JROTC got me E-3 from day one. Not stripes after basic or tech school...but immediate E-3. Upon completion of basic I was even back paid the difference.

It serves no purpose beyond that. The drill and uniform shit is all taught at basic, the only advantage is promotion placement ahead of your peers.

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