Last week I was dismissed from Valley Forge Military College. I attended VFMC on a full Ike Skelton Early Commissioning Scholarship, and would have commissioned upon the completion of my sophomore year in May. Due to my I will soon be disenrolled from the Army ROTC program because the Ike Skelton scholarship can only persist while I attend a Military Junior College (MJC). The Early Commissioning Program requires that Cadets participate in the Simultaneous Membership Program (SMP), simultaneously being an ROTC cadet and member of the National Guard. I was a contracted MS4, and due to my SMP contract I will be placed in the hands of the Pennsylvania National Guard as an enlisted soldier once the disenrollment process is complete. I understand that I am now obligated to pay back the cost of tuition to the Army for the last 3 semesters, but that is not the focus of this post.
To give some background information, I was not dismissed for any illegal or criminal activities. It was mainly due to the fact that I had two "Honor Boards" (remember that this is a military college) because I was AWOL from campus on two separate occasions and I violated COVID protocols by doing so. Due to COVID we were completely restricted to campus the entire semester, and were only allowed to leave to attend drill. Basically the first time I left campus was to go get my car from my brothers apartment, we share it and he keeps it with him at Villanova, which is 5 mins away. I texted my TAC officer to let her know where I was going and why, it was around 9PM so I didn't expect a response, and the next day while I was at drill I had an email saying that I had an honor board. The second instance was because I had to complete an 8 hour drivers improvement class due to a speeding ticket I received earlier in the year. The penalty for not completing the class was a suspension of my license. I tried to go through the right process of requesting leave, however, I kept on getting denied by the TAC officer. I contacted the DMV numerous times but lines were down, and tried a few more times to convince my TAC that it was absolutely necessary for me to attend the class. I still got denied. Eventually I just told her that I was going to drill that weekend (which I obviously wasn't) she approved my leave for drill, and long story short I went to the class and ended up getting caught, went to another honor board, and was dismissed.
I am currently working on transfer applications to colleges for the spring semester, and I would like to join the AROTC program again. I have a 3.63 cumulative GPA, a 260 APFT score, am a member of Phi Theta Kappa (a national honor society for Junior colleges), and I still have a strong desire to commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. Do you believe that it is still possible for me to enroll in ROTC at my next college given the fact that I have been dismissed from college and disenrolled from the ROTC program previously? Am I "blacklisted" now because of this? Since I will still be serving as an enlisted member of the National Guard, I believe that I could work through the chain of command to receive a conditional release form my guard contract in order to enter a commissioning program. Once again the scholarship I had is not transferable to any other school, but I would just like to enroll in ROTC even if I am non-scholarship. Thank You.
To give some background information, I was not dismissed for any illegal or criminal activities. It was mainly due to the fact that I had two "Honor Boards" (remember that this is a military college) because I was AWOL from campus on two separate occasions and I violated COVID protocols by doing so. Due to COVID we were completely restricted to campus the entire semester, and were only allowed to leave to attend drill. Basically the first time I left campus was to go get my car from my brothers apartment, we share it and he keeps it with him at Villanova, which is 5 mins away. I texted my TAC officer to let her know where I was going and why, it was around 9PM so I didn't expect a response, and the next day while I was at drill I had an email saying that I had an honor board. The second instance was because I had to complete an 8 hour drivers improvement class due to a speeding ticket I received earlier in the year. The penalty for not completing the class was a suspension of my license. I tried to go through the right process of requesting leave, however, I kept on getting denied by the TAC officer. I contacted the DMV numerous times but lines were down, and tried a few more times to convince my TAC that it was absolutely necessary for me to attend the class. I still got denied. Eventually I just told her that I was going to drill that weekend (which I obviously wasn't) she approved my leave for drill, and long story short I went to the class and ended up getting caught, went to another honor board, and was dismissed.
I am currently working on transfer applications to colleges for the spring semester, and I would like to join the AROTC program again. I have a 3.63 cumulative GPA, a 260 APFT score, am a member of Phi Theta Kappa (a national honor society for Junior colleges), and I still have a strong desire to commission as a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. Do you believe that it is still possible for me to enroll in ROTC at my next college given the fact that I have been dismissed from college and disenrolled from the ROTC program previously? Am I "blacklisted" now because of this? Since I will still be serving as an enlisted member of the National Guard, I believe that I could work through the chain of command to receive a conditional release form my guard contract in order to enter a commissioning program. Once again the scholarship I had is not transferable to any other school, but I would just like to enroll in ROTC even if I am non-scholarship. Thank You.