nrotc scholarships

aspen
Tue, 08 Nov 2005 12:12:27 +0000

juniormom: Excellent post. Thanks for sharing your son’s experience with NROTC. Also thank him for agreeing to serve our country. Hope he continues to excel in his NROTC program.

I am constantly amazed by the number of people who think the driving force behind attending an academy or ROTC program is the “free tuition”. When I tell them that our son wants to pursue a military career and that the academy was his path for pursuing that career, they appear sceptical as though they are thinking “You’re just saying that because the academies want to hear that.”

I often wonder why some people can accept that a young person aspires to be a doctor, teacher, musician or businessperson; but cannot accept that a rational young person would want to be a career military officer.