About Det 842
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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 undergraduate 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
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 cross-town 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 wing
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:
- Be a United States citizen
- Pass the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test
- Meet AFROTC weight and body fat standards
- Pass the AFROTC Physical Fitness Test
- Have at least a 2.0 cumulative college GPA and completed one term of full-time college classes*
- Not already be a contracted scholarship recipient
- Meet the age, moral, medical and other eligibility requirements for Air Force ROTC
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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