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The Department of Military Science offers the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program on the campus, providing instruction in general military subjects applicable to all branches of the Army. The purpose of the Reserve Officers Training Corps is to develop selected college-educated men and women for positions of responsibility as officers in the active Army, the Army Reserve, and the Army National Guard.
The military science program is designed to develop a high degree of personal honor, self-reliance, and leadership and to provide the means of becoming better informed on matters of national defense. The program provides men and women who are working toward a baccalaureate degree the opportunity to become officers in the United States Army.
The four-year program is divided into a basic course1 (normally first and second years) and an advanced course (normally third and fourth years), and it is offered to all students for academic credit.
The basic course emphasizes practical leadership techniques and management concepts that apply equally in both military organizations and private industry. While in this phase of the program, students, other than contracted ROTC scholarship students, have no military obligation and are simply taking ROTC courses, like any other college courses, for credit. Students who receive credit for the basic course and demonstrate a potential for becoming effective officers may continue to pursue a commission by enrolling in the advanced course.
The advanced course is designed to prepare students to be Army lieutenants by including practical work in tactics, training, management, leadership techniques, and the exercise of command. Advanced course students are paid $450 (juniors) and $500 (seniors) a month during the school year. During the summer between the junior and senior years, cadets enroll in a thirty-two day Leadership Development Assessment Course (LDAC), which allows them to apply the leadership and technical training learned in the classroom. While at LDAC, students are paid half a second lieutenant's monthly salary or about $1100.
In addition to ROTC instruction, a student must attain an equal level of professional military education. Army officers, like other professionals, cannot be satisfied with a collection of knowledge found only in their academic field. In order to be prepared to become officers, students are required to complete a course in military history.
The minor in military science provides students with the opportunity to study the theory and practice of the military profession. The minor consists of twelve semester hours of upper-level courses. Students must complete MIL 301, 302, 401, and 402. Students desiring to minor in military science should notify their respective deans and the Department of Military Science.
The ROTC program is also available to students with three or two years remaining on campus, including graduate students. Special programs, such as ROTC summer Leader's Training Course (LTC), have been established to allow second-semester sophomores and juniors or seniors who will be going on to graduate school to participate in the military science program.
There is also a special program whereby veterans and JROTC students can receive advanced placement credit in Army ROTC. Veterans and students with high school JROTC training, with the approval of the chairperson of the Department of Military Science, may receive placement credit for part or all of the basic course. Each case will be judged individually so that the best interests of both the student and the military may be served.
Army ROTC scholarships are available to students. These scholarships cover four, three, and two-year periods and provide for full tuition and fees, $1200 a year for books, and a tax-free subsistence allowance of $300 a month for first year cadets, $350 a month for sophomore cadets, $450 a month during the junior year and $500 a month in the senior year for up to ten months. Scholarships, which are highly competitive, are awarded to those who demonstrate outstanding scholarly, athletic and leadership ability.
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1At Sinclair Community College, MIL 121, 122, 123 complete requirements for MIL 101 and 102 at UD; MIL 221, 222, 223 complete requirements for MIL 201 and 202.
Faculty
Lt. Col. Charles Schretzman, U.S. Army, Chairperson
Professor: Schretzman
Assistant Professors: Adams, Bender, Harber, Womack
Instructor: Fleek, Gautreaux |
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| *All material derived from the current issue of the University of Dayton Bulletin. |
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