Recent content by platypus1618

For AROTC, you are paid during the academic year until the summer after your junior year. Then, your stipend continues into the summer. The stipend is not taxable and you will not receive a W2. A few caveats/answers to other issues raised in this thread: You will be paid for summer training...

From the high school ROTC scholarships page: "Requirements: Be between the ages of 17 and 26" http://m.goarmy.com/rotc/high-school-students/four-year-scholarship.m.html That could be at the time of contracting, I suppose, but that's not what it says. Also I think Pima is right about the max...

Also the LoR is supposed to attest to his leadership and maturity.

http://www.cadetcommand.army.mil/training/cadet-internships.aspx You're talking about the one on this page, correct?

If you're talking about the internship that I think you are, then the application isn't online, he has to get it from his cadre. It's due Dec. 1 (to cadet command) but it's pretty short. The only thing I would worry about is that he also needs a letter of recommendation from a professor in his...

The point of CULP is not to teach cadets about one culture that they'll never encounter again, but to give them experience adapting to new cultures/people/ideas, a skill that would be useful no matter where they're stationed.

Just wanted to point out that some of these posts are about CIET and some are about CLC. Generally I've heard much better things about CIET, which seems to be the trend on this thread also.

Yes, cardinal21, I'm sure your little darling has a superior attitude and that this alone allowed them to have a better experience than all those other inferior cadets. That must be the only possible explanation for the discrepancy. It's not at all possible that different cadre, regiments, and...

I'm not sure why you asked the question when you've clearly already decided what the answer is... I doubt this will change your mind, but you should leave the card as is. I don't know a single cadet whose CAC says cadet, although I'm told they exist. As people have told you, this is 100% normal...

If a cadet quits because the heat is unpleasant, than that is the fault of the cadet. If they get a heat injury, that means that either they chose not to take care of themselves or their cadre failed to give them the proper tools/instruction to do so. In the latter, cadet command is obviously at...

Showing support for sexual assault victims is not political. It's just like showing support for soldiers with PTSD or victims of domestic violence or terrorism.

Thank you.

Would you mind telling us who will attend?

You hear about civilians going on rampages, too. Of course there are good people and cruel people in the military, just as there are in any profession. I think you know that your opinions are based on very limited information rather than experience or an unbiased "whole picture" and that's why...

Accepting the scholarship is not legally binding. The contract you sign after arriving on campus and passing the APFT is. So go ahead and accept.