Thread:BTR180/@comment-27550231-20200126214703/@comment-27666783-20200204025852

AngryLance wrote: ... What the heck is a JROTC ? JayRotSees or Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps is a military sponsored school program to, as they put it, ''inspire students to become better citizens. ''Its a good class to get that Easy A- I mean Advanced Enlisted Rank if you hop in the real deal right away. Its sort of a outreach program to entice highschool students into looking into military service and acts as a sort of mock military organization. You do things like wear a uniform and have it inspects, drill and ceremony, physical fitness stuff, and then you watch movies and """Study""" about military history and doctrine. Most of the time overbearing parents get rid of that. Sometimes nicknamed Cucumbers from the green uniforms, sometimes called unironic Nazis, I've seen both.

 Not gonna lie, its overall purpose has sorta either been lost to history or it never had a strategic one in the first place(most of its events have been neutered, units don't do battle drills or FTX like its college one does, I've barely seen any school let them do shooting, and any study into military 'things' is mainly history. Its purpose is... well honestly it doesn't really have one. All the things it could do are curtailed by the tyranny of the Soccer Mom. Regardless of all this it can be a cool experience, especially if you're near a military installation you basicaly get free tours and do neat stuff like hang around flightlines/base activities, see airshows for free, and even take C-130 rides. If you don't make friends in it, it can be a waste of time, but if you do make friends it can be alot of fun. Bois from Charlie Companyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.