Reserve Officers Training Corps

American  

noun

1. a body of students at some colleges and universities who are given training toward becoming officers in the armed forces. ROTC, R.O.T.C.

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Example Sentences

He received a full-ride scholarship to Gonzaga through the university’s Army Reserve Officers Training Corps, according to Jesuit High School’s student publication, Plank.

From Seattle Times

Smith grew up in Plano, Texas, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1987 through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps program at Texas A&M University.

From Seattle Times

The parents of a missing 15-year-old Florida Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps member are asking for the public’s help finding their son, who was last seen leaving school Friday in Tampa.

From Fox News

Among the more closely examined messages is Bill Clinton’s letter in 1969 while he was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University thanking a Reserve Officers Training Corps colonel for “saving” him from the draft.

From New York Times

He signed up for the Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps in his first year there, joining his fellow cadets in cleaning up the schoolyard and organizing food drives around Thanksgiving.

From New York Times