JumpStarter
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Do you have to be a cadet with an ROTC scholarship in order to become an officer?
You don't have to go the enlisted route to go OTS. Many enlisted do go this route because they did not enter with a college degree, but for AF there are a ton that decided while in college they wanted to go into the military.
This is confusing. How can you go to OTS without enlisting? In the Army, you can enlist an an 09S (officer candidate) - you go to basic and then OCS. Or are you saying you don't have to serve as enlisted first?
Officer Candidate School (OCS) is the U.S. Army’s main training academy for prospective Army Officers. The school is generally open to qualified enlisted Noncommissioned Officers, along with civilians who hold at least a four-year college degree.
You can go to OCS straight out of college in the Army too. http://www.goarmy.com/ocs.html.
All branches recruit college students not in ROTC to go through OTS/OCS after graduation. In my Radiation Physics class, the Navy came to recruit Nuclear Engineering majors. Talked about the signing bonus and OCS after graduation. It's not just for enlisted, though they make up the bulk of OCS/OTS classes.