Wednesday, March 18, 2009
when doing my research for the analysis paper, the biggest question that intrigued me personally was the fact that once members in ROTC graduate they are automatically commisioned officers, most with no actual experience in the army. I briefly talked about it in my essay and just stated me curiosity as to why there would not be experience as well as ROTC training to become an officer who is going to possibly lead soldiers into war one day. I would like to know how enlisted soldiers feel about this as well as ROTC members and cadre. I wonder if the officer would be as well respected as an officer who had been previously enlisted then later chose to go to school to become an officer. I think the best research to me would be interviews because the main thing I am interested in is how the army feels about it but I also will get a great deal of information from books and articles. The other question that interested me about ROTC was how the army felt about academies versus ROTC programs at a civilian college. While I was researching the last paper I read about how the army did not like the idea of an ROTC program in the beginning years of ROTC. college campus's were supportive of this program at first but eventually though differently about it, as read in Michael Nieberg's ROTC: Making Citizen Soldiers. Basically my interests for the argumentative essay is about the controversies that have ROTC has encountered and how the members of the army community and ROTC community feel about it.
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