What is AFROTC?
The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (AFROTC) provides undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to become a United States Air Force officer while completing their college degree. The program, combining traditional college education with military instruction, will prepare you to tackle the leadership challenges awaiting the Air Force in the 21st century. Unless you're already on an ROTC scholarship, you'll have no initial commitment for your first term--check out the program and see if it is for you. While ROTC is designed to be a 4-year program, it doesn't matter how far you are in your degree program, or if you already have a degree. Even juniors, seniors, and graduates can join ROTC and pursue a scholarship. For details, contact the Unit Admissions Officer.
Cadet Life
Being a college student is unlike any other time in your life. College should be intellectually challenging, but it should also but fun. Air Force ROTC only enhances your college experience. You're just like any other student. Live in the dorm. Join a fraternity or sorority. Play intramural sports. The difference is in the elective courses you take.
In addition to your regular college courses, you enroll
in one AFROTC course per semester through the Department
of Aerospace Studies. If you do not attend UTSA, you
will still take the AFROTC courses at UTSA as a crosstown
student. These courses, along with a four-week summer
course, provide the framework for your officer training.
Leadership Lab: In AFROTC, we do not simply teach you about leadership, we give you a chance to put learning into action. The weekly leadership laboratory is a cadet-run activity, planned and carried out by senior cadets. Activities can include drill and ceremony instruction, physical fitness training, sports competition, and guest speaker presentations. Besides conducting leadership laboratories, you will help lead and manage the cadet organization to prepare yourself for your future responsibilities as a second lieutenant.
Field
Training: Field training is an intensive, 27-day
program that you attend in the summer after your sophomore
year. This rigorous program involves physical conditioning,
weapons exposure, and survival training. As an insight
to expeditionary operations, Field Training is your
opportunity to develop your skills and as both a leader
and team member.
Summer
Experiences: In summers you don't attend Field
Training, you can do things truly amazing. Take hand-to-hand "combative" training.
Parachute or soar in Colorado Springs. Shadow officers
at engineering labs. Observe nurses at the largest
USAF medical center. Explore space careers at the Air
Force Academy. Travel abroad in cultural immersions.
These are just a few of the free, voluntary programs offered
to cadets over the summer.
Qualifications
To be eligible for this program, an applicant must:
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Be a United States citizen
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Pass the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test
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Meet AFROTC weight and body fat standards
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Pass the AFROTC Physical Fitness Test
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Have at least a 2.0 cumulative college GPA and completed one term of full-time college classes*
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Not already be a contracted scholarship recipient
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Meet the age, moral, medical and other eligibility requirements for Air Force ROTC
*(2.5 cumulative GPA for scholarship eligibility)
Air Force Careers
Want to know more about career fields available to
you on active duty?
Here are some fact sheets and a career search feature
that can provide additional information.
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