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Administrative responsibility for Air Force ROTC was assigned to the Air University (AU) at Maxwell AFB, Alabama. In 1971, women were admitted to the Air Force ROTC program, having been previously limited to commissioning only via Officer Training School (OTS).
The first Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps (then Air ROTC) units were established between 1920 and 1923 at the University of California, Berkeley, the Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Illinois, the University of Washington, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas A&M University.
Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps, the US Air Force component of the ROTC; Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps, the US Army component of the ROTC; Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, the US Navy and US Marine Corps component of the ROTC; Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps, an affiliate program in US high schools
The Military College of Vermont, the oldest senior military college and the "Birthplace of ROTC", [5] Norwich University is a private university located in Northfield, Vermont. Founded in 1819 at Norwich, Vermont , as the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy, it is the oldest [ 6 ] of the non-federal Military Academies and ...
University of Tennessee Air Force ROTC; V. Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets This page was last edited on 8 July 2023, at 09:22 (UTC). Text is ...
[33] [34] [35] UT's Air Force ROTC unit was designated Detachment 800. [36] By May 1953, UT separated its Army ROTC and Air Force ROTC programs into their own academic departments; Detachment 800's was named the Department of Air Science and Tactics. [37] By May 1956, the department was renamed the Department of Air Science. [38]
Air University also oversees one of Air Force's two civilian participatory programs, Air Force Junior ROTC. Civil Air Patrol was moved under Air Combat Command in 2016: [15] The Air Force Junior ROTC program is a cadet program for high school students at more than 870 high schools in the United States and at Department of Defense Dependent ...
Students at these academies are organized as cadets, and graduate with appropriate licenses from the U.S. Coast Guard and/or the U.S. Merchant Marine.While not immediately offered a commission as an officer within a service, cadets do have the opportunity to participate in commissioning programs like the Strategic Sealift Officer Program (Navy) and Maritime Academy Graduate (Coast Guard).