A successful student is timely, a leader and trustworthy. From showing up to class on-time to group members trusting in each other to do their parts, these skills can be translated to many related activities outside of the classroom.
Being active in KSU is made easy with more than 200 Registered Student Organizations. Each of these organizations welcomes every student wishing to join their team.
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is great way for students to utilize skills they already have and put them to good use. Joining the Army ROTC does automatically enlist the student into the Army. Rather, Army ROTC counts as an elective toward graduation at KSU and as a recommended class if considering the Army after graduation.
Graduating is every student’s goal when entering KSU. The accomplishment of a degree is gratifying and will create a path for a successful future. Each student has a different goal and ideal job.
The search every student goes through to find a job can be extremely stressful. However, a program that guarantees each active member a verifiable job after graduating from KSU can be very appealing.
Army ROTC is an RSO open to any current KSU student. Students are able to join as freshman, but are required by their junior year, to satisfy all Army enlisting requirements.
In satisfying all requirements to join the Army, each graduated Army ROTC member is enlisted with the Army upon graduation. Army ROTC allows for each member to not only enlist in the Army but to enter as an officer.
Officers are the Army’s leaders. Sometimes, the people that make the best officers are not financially supported. Army ROTC helps with paying many financial obligations. Hundreds of students acquire scholarships by simply being a committed ROTC Army cadet.
Sgt. 1st Class, Patrick Turner, a KSU ROTC instructor elaborates on the student’s journey to becoming an officer through the program.
“Our mission is to commission future officers, by teaching many leadership skills as well as common courtesy,” Turner said.
Officers are in charge of a platoon; therefore, Army ROTC helps to develop each future officer’s leadership skills.By attending a leadership development camp their junior year, each Army ROTC member demonstrates they have what it takes to keep a platoon safe and healthy.
“A platoon can be anywhere from 30 to 35 [cadets]. We train our members in the classroom setting, practical setting and with field experience,” Turner said.
To become an officer for the Army, each new enlistee must attain a few qualities.
“An officer must be a college graduate, physically fit and [must] go to camp to prove their leadership skills,” Turner said.
Army ROTC members have the privilege of learning many skills in addition to leadership. Some skills learned are how to raft up a river and climb a mountain. While they may not be everyday events, they can save a life or lives.
KSU’s Army ROTC is important to every KSU student whether it is because of a passion to serve your country or to have a secure job after college graduation.
For more information regarding KSU’s Army ROTC visit the website: http://www.kennesaw.edu/rotc/.
