Mandatory Cadet Summer Training
Advance Camp
Advanced Camp (AC) is the capstone, a 37-day training event designed to assess a cadet's ability to demonstrate proficiency in basic officer leadership course-a tasks and leadership abilities. Approximately 7,100 cadets are evaluated on their ability to lead at the squad and platoon levels, both in garrison and tactical environments. Cadets are mentally and physically tested during a consequence-driven field training exercise that replicates a combat training center rotation. Successful completion of AC is a prerequisite for commissioning.
Basic Camp
- Basic Camp is designed for college students, typically between their sophomore and junior years and is NOT necessary for all cadets. Upon successful completion of the course, graduates can take part in ROTC at their college as a third-year student in the four-year program.
Army ROTC Basic Camp allows for current college students to enter the ROTC program. The 32-day training event is designed to help introduce incoming to students to the Army and bring students up to speed with the ROTC curriculum that is taught during the MS1 and MS2 year. Basic camp provides the critical thinking skills necessary to succeed in ROTC and the Army as a future officer.
Cadet Advanced Individual Training
The Cadet Troop Leader Training track provides cadets the opportunity to experience leadership in Army units over a three-to-four-week period. Cadets serve in lieutenant-level leadership positions in active-duty units. Platoon Leader positions have a three-to-four-week duration depending on the hosting unit and location. Assignments include units that are in both the United States and foreign countries. Cadets are assigned a unit mentor and are provided on-post lodging and meals via a dining facility.
Cadets with an academic major in nursing are the only Cadets eligible to apply for this program. Cadets are assigned to Army medical facilities both in the continental United States (CONUS) and outside the continental United States (OCONUS) including Europe. NSTP provides nursing cadets with opportunities to develop and practice leadership in a clinical environment. Cadets work side-by-side with an Army nurse corps officer preceptor. To qualify, cadets must apply by submitting the packet through their brigade nurse counselor to the cadet command chief nurse. Cadets applying for this program must be certified in Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS- Provider level) and certification may not expire prior to the completion of NSTP training.
The internship track offers a myriad of opportunities for cadets who seek additional training in specialized areas such as scientific application, engineering, nursing, medicine, intelligence, cultural awareness and language proficiency. The internship types, locations and allocations change significantly from year to year.
The United States Army Airborne School - widely known as Jump School - conducts the basic paratrooper (military parachutist) training for the United States armed forces. It is operated by the 1st Battalion (Airborne), 507th Infantry, United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga. The Airborne School conducts the Basic Airborne Course, which is open to soldiers of both genders from all branches of the United States Department of Defense and allied military personnel.
Air Assault School qualifies soldiers to conduct airmobile and air assault helicopter operations. Aircraft orientation, sling load operations, proper rappelling techniques and fast-rope techniques. The school itself is 10 training days and requires a 12-mile march with rucksack to graduate. The school is at Fort Campbell, Ky., (home of the 101st Airborne Division). Instructors at the course are referred to as Air Assault Sergeants. It is open to both males and females. The school is composed of learning helicopter insertion techniques, rigorous training and tedious packing lists; one missing item could cause the student to fail the school immediately.
The Jungle Operations Training Course (JOTC) spans 12 days through which students execute a 12-day program of instruction. Subjects focus on jungle mobility training, waterborne operations, combat tracking, jungle tactics, survival training and situational training exercises at the squad level.
Project Global Officer (Project GO) is Army ROTC's main initiative in the development of critical language education, focusing within the regions of the Middle East, Asia, Central Asia, Africa and South America. Throughout this experience, cadets become immersed in a new culture by traveling to foreign countries to learn a critical language for eight weeks. Critical languages include Arabic, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Spanish.
