Side note of why I think it is great to join these organizations as an AFROTC cadet. You build life long friendships. Both my DH (Bullet) and DS were AAS. At their college, the most positive thing that came out of it was the bonding.
Bullet commissioned 25 yrs earlier to the date that DS did from the same college. He is still friends with many of his AAS friends and they keep in contact via the net. Several attended our wedding. He still has lunch with them when they meet up at the Puzzle Palace.
You will be amazed how small the AF is when you go AD. Your paths will criss cross over the yrs. We lived in AK 10 yrs after he graduated and one of them knew this, so when he was on TDY to Elmendorf, we had him over for dinner.
Our DS is now at Laughlin waiting for his UPT class to start, 1 of his AAS buds is there with him. He had by all stds. a large AFROTC class, and he became closer to this guy because they were in AAS and AFROTC. He had a friend the minute he stepped foot on base. They shared not only the history of being at the same det., but in AAS together.
You will also see it when you enter AFROTC. At our DS's det. they hold a dining in and a dining out every yr. Members of these groups have forges that they wear with their attire. DS's det is large. There must have been 300-400 people at the dining out last April. When you looked around the room it was comical because you could see it by the color of the forges they were wearing.
I attended it last spring since it is also known as the commissioning ball. Our table was filled with blue and gold forges (AAS). Table to the right was blue and silver . The table to the left was blue and purple. The table at the 1 o'clock position was blue and white.
I laughed because I didn't see one table where there was a mixture of different forges. There were tables with some that didn't have a forge, and some that did, but those with a forge were the same color.
I know that sounds cliquish, but the thing is it really isn't. It is they hang with each other weekly for yrs and have formed a bond. It is natural when you have to make a table of 10 to sit with to hear boring speeches and eat green bean almondine, you want to sit with people you socialize with outside of AFROTC LLAB.