I maybe 1000% wrong on this, but I believe for this semester to be paid there is some fine print involved.
Yes, you can leave with no harm, no foul, but I am reading your post as in asking if they will pay for spring semester now.
Somewhere in the bowels of this forum there was a thread that discussed this, and basically I believe what was said was simply:
Drop AFROTC before X week and HQ AFROTC has the right to not pay the scholarship for that semester.
~ I believe it is tied to the colleges drop date for classes when you get no money back.
~~ IE if they say that if you can drop a class until the 6th week of the semester before you get no money back, than they may say that since you dropped AFROTC after 3 weeks, they will not pay for this semester.
I recall my DD (VT grad, with lots of Corps of Cadets friends) saying they were told as freshmen that if they dropped the Corps before mid-terms that VT had the right to revoke them as an enrolled student.
~ Reason being that they do give an admissions edge to HS applicants saying they will go through the Corps.
I am not saying that this is what HQ AFROTC follows, but I am saying there can be fine print in that scholarship and they may say they will not pay for this semester because you basically dropped out too early.
I agree with the others, stay with it for this semester. Here is my 0.019742 cents opinion, and with $2.07 more you can get a small Starbucks coffee
1. Does your unit have GMC nights? Military fraternities, such as, Honor Guard, Arnie Air, Silver Wings, Angel Flight?
~ If so, have you partaken in any of them?
~~ Some kids just don't feel the bond as a freshmen if all they do is show up for PT and LLAB. The beauty of military fraternities, is the fact that they are like a fraternity, it is not uncommon to have cadets with sim. majors/or desired AFSCs in a specific military frat. At DSs school, Arnie Air was filled with cadets wanting rated, regardless of their major. Silver Wings were engineering majors.
~~~ Joining these organizations, especially if at a large det., creates bonds.
~ Same is true about GMC nights.
~~ Usually a GMC night is mid-week, anyone that is an AS100/200/250 are invited. It is just social. At DSs det. the unit would pay for pizza/wings, etc., and the cadets would hang in the lounge from @6:30-9:00 playing Xbox/PS4, watching movies, playing foosball or crud.
2. As a scholarship recipient, you should know that they are not going to allow you to move your commission date without HQ AFROTC approval. Chances of pushing your commissioning date by 1 semester is not unrealistic, chances of pushing it over a year is!
~ If your major is a 5 year program as an engineer they will allow 5 years, but if it is 4 years, they will most likely cut you loose!
3. As a freshman you probably had no position or responsibility, thus it may feel like a waste of time. As a sophomore you will have a position. You will start to see a new perspective from a broader picture.
4. Freshmen year is not an easy year, especially if you live away from home. As much as you wanted to bolt the nest, you are now realizing that your roots are planted deeper than you ever thought. The idea that your 1st assignment might be Elmendorf AK and you are from Fl. may appear unappealing. However, with time you may change your opinion.
5. AFROTC allows you to leave at 4 once you report to your 1st op base. The thing is nowadays to be competitive in the market, you need a Masters.
~ Can you afford to pay for grad school? Complete AFROTC with a high enough OML and you can ask for ED. Sure, you might not be able to leave until the 6 year marker, but the AF picked up that dime while they also paid you a salary just to be a student.
~~ You can also use their TA program if you don't get an ED
THINK LONG TERM, and that means past the 1st 4 yrs post undergrad. If I said right now you are guaranteed ED, would you leave or would you stay to utilize that ED? If it is I still would leave, than there you go. You know you want out and all this is about is if AFROTC will pay for spring semester 2016. If it is I would stay, than you need to do a lot more investigation, within yourself if you don't get ED, and within AFROTC to see your ED chances.
6. Staying with AFROTC until the end of this semester may also help in a way you have yet to think about...internship.
~ Think of AFROTC as an EC, and any position you have held within the unit can be a resume builder.
My very best thoughts, wishes, and hopes that you find your happiness.