LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Army ROTC enhances your college experience by providing training that will make you motivated, confident, and ready, to lead.  You will have practical instruction in such areas as organizational leadership, communication, and time management.  The skills you learn will be ones that benefit you for entire life, whether you are a career military officer, or a business executive. 

ROTC also offers opportunities and challenges that can put you on the fast track to success in life.  You will develop the confidence, self-esteem, motivation and leadership skills you will need regardless of you career plans.  The qualities that ROTC training instills will be vital to a productive and rewarding future.
 

Classroom Studies
Army ROTC classroom instruction covers two basic areas. First, you'll learn about the history, structure, and functions of the Army. Then, you'll learn how to think and act like a leader. Role-playing and management exercises will teach you how to organize tasks, make decisions, and use time efficiently. Best of all, after teaching you a particular leadership skill, ROTC will give you plenty of opportunities to use it--a fact which can make all the difference to future employers, and also improve your performance as a student.

Leadership Labs
Leadership labs involve military skills training, physical training and adventure activities such as rappelling, orienteering and marksmanship. Seniors plan the labs and juniors lead and execute the labs.

Field Training
Army ROTC field training will teach you how to set goals and achieve them. You'll participate in hands-on exercises such as land navigation and platoon tactics. During these exercises, you'll develop judgment and decisiveness, while directing and earning the respect of others under a range of challenging conditions.

Physical Training
The Army ROTC program is designed to challenge you both mentally and physically, preparing you for lifelong fitness in any career. You can look forward to activities which will help build your coordination, stamina, and physical strength.

Ranger Challenge
Each year, top cadets from area schools gather to compete in Army ROTC's varsity sport: the ROTC Ranger Challenge. This voluntary competition offers outstanding teamwork training while demanding your best physical and mental efforts. Events for this competition include physical fitness test, hand grenade assault course, weapons assembly, river crossing event, 6 mile road march with ruck sacks, orienteering, and weapons qualification. The Green Terror Battalion consistently fields an extremely strong team and typically walks away each year in one of the top three places.

Other Activities
On campus extracurricular activities include Color Guard, Cadet formal, paintball, cadet staff rides to local battlefields, and a special "President's Review" to recognize our top cadets each year.

Summer Leadership and Adventure Training
Cadets enrolled in Army ROTC also receive opportunities to continue their education, expand their horizons, and expand their career options by attending numerous Army schools or training programs.

Leader's Training Course (LTC)
LTC is a fully paid program that is designed to teach the basic skills required of leaders.  A 28 day course of instruction conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky available to those who did not take the first two years of the regular four-year ROTC program. The Army pays travel to and from the course and the student receives pay while attending camp.  In addition,  upon completion of the ROTC Leadership Training Course you will also be eligible to compete for an ROTC scholarship if all eligibility and scholarship requirements are met.  

Warrior Forge
As a part of the Advanced Course, cadets attend a four-week advanced leadership camp - normally in the summer between their junior and senior years. Warrior Forge is a fully paid program that is the culmination of three years of training.