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ROTC offers Leadership Training Course
Chelsey Levingston
Issue date: 6/4/08 Section: News
June 30 is the last summer Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AROTC) Leadership Training Course (LTC) cycle for college juniors who are transfer students or haven't had time to take Military Science (MS) 100 and 200 level courses.
After graduation, students can qualify for MS 300 and 400 level courses. Students can also take the course for leadership experience.
"It's different because it's not intensive training, it's not learning to be a soldier, it's learning to be a leader and an officer," said Lieutenant Colonel Chuck Arneson, Enrollment Officer.
Applications are due June 13, in time to prepare. Also, applicants must have two years of undergraduate or graduate schooling left.
Once qualified, the training course is 28 days of exercises in leadership, confidence, teamwork, physical fitness and overcoming fears through the Future Leader, Bold Leader and Discover Gold phases that replace MS 100 and 200 course curriculum.
"I don't think anything really replaces LTC because it's such a good course," said Arneson.
There are no obligations to go to LTC, but afterwards, students have the choice to contract. To be in MS 300 and 400 level courses, students have to contract or be in the process of contracting for active duty, reserves or National Guard.
This contract is an agreement to finish an undergraduate degree and AROTC training. Training is eight to ten hours a week of class, lab and physical training. These students can also compete for an AROTC scholarship that pays tuition, fees, books and a stipend awarded by scholarship, athletics and leadership criteria.
"I think there are a couple misconceptions about AROTC. A lot of people think well, you have to do basic training or your enlisting in the Army. That's not true. Really all of our training, almost 80 percent of it, you know, is done during the school year. The other misconception is that everybody has to be on scholarship. That's not true, not everybody has to be," said Arneson.
Currently, WSU is sending six students to the 40th annual LTC . Each LTC has six cycles of companies with about 250 students taught by AROTC instructors from 270 host colleges and universities.
After graduation, students can qualify for MS 300 and 400 level courses. Students can also take the course for leadership experience.
"It's different because it's not intensive training, it's not learning to be a soldier, it's learning to be a leader and an officer," said Lieutenant Colonel Chuck Arneson, Enrollment Officer.
Applications are due June 13, in time to prepare. Also, applicants must have two years of undergraduate or graduate schooling left.
Once qualified, the training course is 28 days of exercises in leadership, confidence, teamwork, physical fitness and overcoming fears through the Future Leader, Bold Leader and Discover Gold phases that replace MS 100 and 200 course curriculum.
"I don't think anything really replaces LTC because it's such a good course," said Arneson.
There are no obligations to go to LTC, but afterwards, students have the choice to contract. To be in MS 300 and 400 level courses, students have to contract or be in the process of contracting for active duty, reserves or National Guard.
This contract is an agreement to finish an undergraduate degree and AROTC training. Training is eight to ten hours a week of class, lab and physical training. These students can also compete for an AROTC scholarship that pays tuition, fees, books and a stipend awarded by scholarship, athletics and leadership criteria.
"I think there are a couple misconceptions about AROTC. A lot of people think well, you have to do basic training or your enlisting in the Army. That's not true. Really all of our training, almost 80 percent of it, you know, is done during the school year. The other misconception is that everybody has to be on scholarship. That's not true, not everybody has to be," said Arneson.
Currently, WSU is sending six students to the 40th annual LTC . Each LTC has six cycles of companies with about 250 students taught by AROTC instructors from 270 host colleges and universities.
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