nrotc scholarships

peskemom
Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:55:09 +0000

When one of our older children was at UCLA - one of her best friends was an NROTC young man. He turned down is Academy appointment to attend UCLA. Although we never dreamed 6 years later we would have one of our own children interested in a military officer career - I recall being so taken with this young man’s intelligence, kindness, and ‘bearing’ ( didn’t know the word then, but it certainly described how he stood out in the dorm amongst the typical UCLA freshman/sophomore) that I asked him an awful lot of questions about what he was doing, why he turned down his appt. at USNA and what he thought of NROTC.

4 years later I was there when both he and my daughter got their UCLA diplomas, and there he was, proudly holding his Commission as well.

He is now a sub officer in Connecticut and still in touch with us all. He has been a big encouragement to our daughter as she has applications in to both USNA and MROTC as we speak. He says there is a joke amongst the officers that all Academy people are too military and all ROTC people are too civilian - but in this man’s view - it all helps to round out the military officers in our Armed Forces. Going ROTC never stopped him from having all the options he ever wanted, UCLA’s unit was very ‘tight’ and he would recommend it to anyone who wanted both a real ‘college life’ and the opportunity to go straight to a military officer career.

Thanks so much for your input, juniormom!

much love and support to your son as well!