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Being able to fully concentrate on my studies and not have to worry about a job is great, but not only am I bored out of my mind sometimes, I also fear I'm falling behind relative to my RMC collegues. I wonder, can someone confirm that ROTP ocdts at civ universities can serve in reserve units during the school year? I also have to ask this, because I've gotten different versions of the story, do you get payed? Some people told me that you couldn't, because you can't recieve two paychecks from the forces... but others have told me there are some "ways" reserve units can pay ROTP officer cadets.
From what my PL commander told all of us civ ROTP guys the day we were leaving St-Jean, it seems that almost everyone returns the next summer out of shape and totally out of it. I know of course that we're grown adults and should take up our responsibilities by ourselves, but being a college student getting for all intents and purposes a "free ride" and not wearing your uniform for the entire year makes it easy to forget your a fulltime military officer posted at a university. In the US ROTC program, cadets do all sorts of stuff throughout the year and can even follow the airborne course. There are at least 15-20 of us here at Laval, you'd think we could get together at least a few times a year for some kind of exercise, to keep everyone into it. If not, the Forces should at least encourage ocdts to apply at reserve units to serve during the school year, even if I'm well aware most of what we'd be doing is fetching coffee and filing papers, heh. I guess one of those ways would be not making it volunteering work.
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From what my PL commander told all of us civ ROTP guys the day we were leaving St-Jean, it seems that almost everyone returns the next summer out of shape and totally out of it. I know of course that we're grown adults and should take up our responsibilities by ourselves, but being a college student getting for all intents and purposes a "free ride" and not wearing your uniform for the entire year makes it easy to forget your a fulltime military officer posted at a university. In the US ROTC program, cadets do all sorts of stuff throughout the year and can even follow the airborne course. There are at least 15-20 of us here at Laval, you'd think we could get together at least a few times a year for some kind of exercise, to keep everyone into it. If not, the Forces should at least encourage ocdts to apply at reserve units to serve during the school year, even if I'm well aware most of what we'd be doing is fetching coffee and filing papers, heh. I guess one of those ways would be not making it volunteering work.
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