AFROTC Uniform During Drills

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Why do some Air Force ROTC Cadets wear polo shirts and khaki pants, while others wear full uniform, during drills?
 
I can't speak with authority on this, but I have read on other threads that sometime AFROTC cadets not on scholarship do not get issued uniforms, or at least not all the uniforms. If it is near the beginning of the year, they may also have had to order some uniforms pieces for cadets if they did not have what is needed on hand.
 
Interesting. Different uniforms depending on scholarship or not? Are there other ways in which these two groups are identified or treated differently? I didn't realize that was even a thing. Don't mean to pull the thread in a different direction, but I had no idea.
 
OfficerToBe750 said:
Interesting. Different uniforms depending on scholarship or not? Are there other ways in which these two groups are identified or treated differently? I didn't realize that was even a thing. Don't mean to pull the thread in a different direction, but I had no idea.
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They likely do treat the contracted cadets (those Freshmen/Sophomores on scholarship and the Juniors/Seniors who have moved into the Professional Officer Course) differently but not better. The first 2 years is designed to allow students to see if the AF is going to be a good fit, so it's heavy on recruiting and making sure they get an accurate look at what they are signing up for.
 
Tiger41 said:
Why do some Air Force ROTC Cadets wear polo shirts and khaki pants, while others wear full uniform, during drills?
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I think it may depend on the university. For example, I have learned that at UT Austin, the AFROTC Detachment has all freshmen wear the polo and khaki pants on the days on which they have the ROTC class each week. After the first year, they get issued the rest of the uniforms. My guess is they do it that way to prevent issuing the full uniform to those who may decide ROTC is not for them after the first year. Probably helps save a bunch of uniform items from being lost.
 
My son is in AFROTC and he said at his detachment that they wear the polo and khakis until they are issued their uniforms. Both scholarship cadets and non scholarship cadets get uniforms.
 
Ditto on what rudycoon stated. My DS wore khakis and polo his freshmen year until his uniforms came in, and he is on scholarship. At his detachment, it did not matter who was on scholarship or not when it came to this issue.
 
DSs Det is exactly as HudK9 stated.
Freshman/1st yr cadets-polo/kaki
Sophomore/2nd yr +-uniform
On lab/class days only.
 
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