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 Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:27 am
Hello. I don't actually belong to JROTC, but I have been looking into starting a joint corps with my school, and a nearby school. So far, I've gotten the administrations approval of one school and I'm working on finding an instructor and getting the other school's approval.
Does anyone have any suggestions for getting this thing on the road? Or better yet, anyone know exactly what I need to do to get funding from the headquarters? How many students need to be interested in order to get the funding? How do I contact? And what exactly happens weekly in JROTC?
Any tips on getting it started would be loved. Thanks! smile
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 1:30 pm
Only thing I can really help you with is:
With our school, we had to have close to 150 students to keep the program open. Due to the fact with have a certain amount of money from the school for uniforms and junk. Each school is different and you really need to talking this over with your principle and higher.
To get a teacher for the class, that is the job of the school. After you're sure people actually want this class. Cuz if they only want it to slack off, it will go to hell soon and it won't even be worth the time and quickly shut down. I've heard about other schools doing that around arkansas. And then those who want it, don't have it.
Ask the schools staff if you can take a poll during a certain class to find out if students are interested.
JROTC weekly: with us, we do drill on Monday, some kind of teaching [[map reading, american history about wars, medical, etc]] on Tuesday & Wednesdays, Uniform wear on Thursday and PT [[Physical training]] on Friday for the whole PE credit.
Plus certain things on some weekends. Like parades, school help, land nav, etc.
Hope I helped some. =]
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 2:00 pm
I don't know how much help I'll be, but I can give you some pointers:
In our unit we need to have a minimum of 100 Cadets at the beginning of each semester. If not, then we're out. As for getting people to join, I suggest posting a poll on walls, in the lunchroom, and classrooms--with the school's permission, of course--you could also write the school newspaper and see if they could run an ad for maybe a month or so about the unit you're trying to start up. Another thing you could do is get permission from the school to set up a poll on the school website to see how many students would actually want the program.
As for JROTC weekly, here's our schedules:
Monday-uniform inspection
Tuesday-academics
Wendsday-drill
Thursday-academics
Friday-PT (physical training)
You'll also need to set up a budget with the school for cost of supplies, ie uniforms, rifle shapes, guide-ons, etc. You'll also find that it's a pretty good idea to get some, if not all, of the teams that go along with ROTC. (Academic, drill, athletic, air rifle, color guard, and orienteering.) You might also want to find out what other units are in your area and ask them for pointers. If you can't do that, then google "JROTC" and see what websites come up. When you do, visit any one of them and e-mail or post a comment or whatever asking how you can start up and ROTC unit.
I really think that you've got the right idea starting up a JROTC unit, but you'll never get it off the ground if you don't have help or support. Good luck, and let me know if your unit ever gets off the ground!
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Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 10:38 pm
Hello, first of all may I say that I think that you are an amazing person to want to start a JROTC program at your school and I applaud you for it♥ To answer your questions... 1] It's been said before, but the position of the AI will be determined by the district so you need not worry about that. 2] Find fellow students that have the same intrest as you and build a strong central support group. 3] JROTC is partly funded by the United States Department of Defense, so if your district does decide to start a JROTC program funding should be part of the package deal. 4] As for the number of students needed, it depends on your school population and what branch of JROTC is decided upon. "Army and Marine Corps JROTC units follow the battalion structure. Air Force JROTC units are composed structurally based on size (wing if more than 251 cadets, group if more than 101, squadron if more than 51). Navy JROTC also typically follows the company (100-149 cadets), battalion (150-299 cadets), or regiment (300+ cadets) structure depending on the size of the unit." 5] There's not much I can say about the contact information, but come Monday I'll ask my AI and see if he can tell me anything. 6] A JROTC class centers around American History, JROTC Knowledge, Health/First Aid/Medical Knowledge, Stationary/Marching Drill, Phisical Fitness, Uniform wear. In classes your AI will instruct the class, like all normal classes, you learn stuff and tested over it [e.g. Chain of Command, JROTC General Knowledge, proper wear of uniform]. You will also be taught how to march and drill maneuvers. Repeating what was said, like PE you'll do physical fitness to vouch for your PE credit and same goes for health. As for the actual uniform a cadet is required to wear the uniform once a week, my battalion does it on Wednesday, for inspection. I'm not sure about other units but ours requires us to wear it the whole school day. The usually inspection counts as a grade. Just make sure to have the majority of the school on your side and I believe that you'll do fine. The reason behind JROTC is to motivate young people to become better citizens. With that I know if your school does support the program you'll learn so much more than the set circulum. If there's anything else we can do for you please ask♥ [[If you're willing to trust Wikipedia then alot of your answers maybe answered, I found it very useful :] ]]
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 8:42 am
Thanks so much, everyone. You've all been very helpful. I can't wait to get it started, I'm really hoping it works out. One reason, because I love military and it'd be a great experience and with friends, it'd be a fun time... and another reason because starting a JROTC club would look excellent on a West Point USMA application, eh? smile
But how does this sound: Since I'm planning on doing it at two different schools (so they'd receive split funding) because my school and the surrounding school is small, separate meetings and then perhaps once a month or so on a join meeting at night or something to practice colourguard and whatnot to be performed at competitions/football games or whatever. Do you think this could work out? I'm assuming we'd need two instructors in that sense...
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Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2008 11:11 am
JROTC.
Its amazing. =D
If you want one, one thing you need to tell parents and the facility is that there is no automatic enlistment. THere is no military obligation.
So they don't freak out.
Secondly, in JROTC Classes you will learn about whatever Branch you represent, the history and present. The chain of command, which is going to change since Bush's term is almost over.
You will also drill in platoons. You will learn easy drill movements like left face, right face, and about face. If you're one of the more daring few, then you will play with whatever rifle your JROTC carries. If you like living on the edge, then you will join an Exhibition drill team. Although, as far as I've seen we're the only JROTC That carries a Female Armed Exhibition.
You will also get many different uniforms and ranks and such, which is always a great thing.
The schedual for MCJROTC in my school goes like
Monday- Drill/Shoot
Tuesday- Classroom Work
Wednesday- Drill/Shoot
Thursday- Uniform Inspection
Friday- PT.
Its pretty intense, but I like shooting. =D
Pretty much every JROTC program needs two instructors, because its hard for just one instructor to take care of so many kids. Believe me, our old SMI died of a heartattack, so we had our MI teach us for a year or two. Since our old SMI died, they where thinking about cutting the program from the school because we 'Need' two instructors. So our MI quit, and then we got a Gunny that punched a kid in the face. Then he quit.
Now we got a Sergeant Major from another JROTC program and he's running us like he did things there; and we're also getting a new MI this year too.
I think kids that join this program will graduate with great experiances. It builds charactor and personality, and it teaches you important values.
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Posted: Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:07 pm
Well I know I wont be of much help, but like what other people said, start a poll around school, let them know that it would help with P.E. credits, at out school it gets you out of P.E. and Health(Thank you for that! lol) we actually have 2 instructors at out school, Colonel teaches let 3 and 4 classes (i'm a VERY lucky freshman in his class lol) while 1st Sargent teaches let 1 and 2s. We have 3 different special teams, Color Guard, Raiders, and Drill Team. We are proud SAHS Yellow Jacket Cadets. Most of the time our schedule looks like this.
Mon: Teaching with your LET teachers/ after school raiders, staff meeting
Tue: same as above/ after school color guard and drill team. sometimes squad leader meetings (b4 or after school)
Wed:(early release) formation, inspection/ after school 3rd wed every month improvement comity(thinking of switching it), raiders (same)
Thurs: First Aid, drill and ceremony/ after school first Sergent meetings, color guard, drill team.
Fri: Team sports or drill and ceremony/ after school raiders, extra meetings.
I will hopefully come back and update this
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:22 pm
I'm out of NJROTC now that I've graduated high school, but I can give you these little tidbits:
-ROTC is a ton of fun. Trust me.
-Since it counts as a PE credit, you'll end up getting a lot of lazy people expecting to have less work. They're wrong. Those guys are usually the people who quit after the first semester or year, after having found out that when you're in ROTC, they push you harder than regular PE. Thus, you don't have to deal with them for very long.
-The kids who join it are usually a bit rowdier (not always), they come from all over the place when it comes to cliques (in other words, you'll get football players, nerds, cheerleaders, wallflowers, stubborn arses [like me], anime freaks, "punk rockers", etc.), and the kids who want to do something with their lives rather than laze around all day.
-Be prepared for some disorganization in the beginning!
-It's way more fun in PE. I've got no idea what PE is like at your school, but there's only one word for PE at my school: BORING!!! I'm serious; all you needed to do for a passing grade was show up and dress. After that, they let you do pretty much anything in class--even sit in a corner and sleep.
So, you'll have a bit of a rocky start to your ROTC unit. But after the first few years, you should have a pretty good base of people who are joining or want to join. Just remember one thing; make sure your unit is known in the community! I've heard horror stories of a unit being pretty much nonexistant in their community. That's one thing that can kill you. Another thing you've gotta make sure gets done is NEVER slouch on recruitment! If you don't recruit, then your unit won't get past the first year.
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