USAF ROTC Overview

What is Air Force ROTC?

• The Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) at Utah State University is an educational program designed to give YOU the opportunity to become an Air Force officer while completing your degree. The Air Force ROTC program is designed to prepare you to assume positions of increasing responsibility and importance in today's Air Force. In addition to this, you will also receive leadership, time management, and organizational skills which are vital to success in college, the Air Force, and careers beyond.

   

• How Long is the Program?

  Air Force ROTC offers two routes to an Air Force commission: the Air Force ROTC Four-Year Program and the Two-Year Program. The Four-Year Program allows you to "try out" Air Force ROTC during your freshman and sophomore years with no obligation unless you are in an Air Force ROTC scholarship. The Two-Year Program is available to students with at least two years remaining in their academic major (undergraduate or graduate) before entering Air Force ROTC.

   

• What Are My Commitments?

  As an Air Force ROTC cadet, you will spend one hour (first two years) or three hours (second two years) a week in a classroom setting learning about the Air Force, the historical development of airpower, leadership skills, and national defense policy. Two hours a week will also be spent in Leadership Laboratory to improve your ability to perform as an Air Force Officer. You will also be required to attend a summer Field Training encampment, usually between your sophomore and junior years. There you will receive career orientation, aircraft orientation, survival training, weapons orientation, physical training, and become familiar with the organization and function of the Department of Defense (DOD) and an Air Force base. Upon graduating, most new officers go on to active duty within six months. Time commitments to the active duty Air Force vary, depending on the job. Some common commitments are:  10 years for a pilot, 6 years for a navigator, and 4 years for most other Air Force support officer jobs.

   

• What Career Opportunities and Fields Are There?

  If you successfully obtain your degree in your academic major and complete the Air Force ROTC requirements, there are excellent career opportunities in today's Air Force and many benefits of being an officer in the Air Force. As an officer coming fresh out of college, you will fill leadership and management positions in a dynamic, worldwide organization dedicated to excellence. How many college students planning on entering the job market can say this?

  Every Air Force assignment demands hard work and increased responsibility, yet offers many personal and professional rewards and benefits. Some of the over 200 career fields available to suit your special skills and talents are:

  1. Pilot / Navigator
  2. Acquisitions
  3. Engineering / Science
  4. Intelligence
  5. Logistics
  6. Air Weapons Controller
  7. Medicine / Nursing
  8. Aircraft Maintenance
  9. Personnel
  10. Information Systems Management
  11. Communications
  12. Security Police
  13. Space Operations
  14. Transportation

  
    Who is Eligible?

  Candidates for entrance into USU Air Force ROTC must meet the following requirements:

  1. Be a student at USU
  2. Be a United States citizen
  3. Have at least two academic years remaining
  4. Be at least 17 years old at time of acceptance
  5. Successfully pass the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test
  6. Be physically qualified
  7. Be of good moral character and academic standing

   

  In addition to AFROTC, other commissioning opportunities exist, including Officer Training School (OTS) and the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as well as possible graduate programs through the Air Force Institute of Technology.