The Marion High School Air Force Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (AFJROTC) is a citizenship training program designed to educate and train high school cadets in citizenship, promote community service, instill personal responsibility, character, and self-discipline. The program achieves this through classroom education in air and space fundamentals and hands-on learning opportunities in a number of fun and challenging extra-curricular activities.  Some of the activities you may be involved in are: Honor Guard/Color Guard, Flight Club, drones, and robotics.

The criteria for determining eligibility to participate in Air Force Junior ROTC are:

•   Be enrolled in and attend a regular course of instruction in grades 9 through 12 at a school hosting the unit.
•   Be selected by the Air Force Junior ROTC instructor with the approval of the school principal or his/her representative.
•   Maintain acceptable standards of academic achievement and an academic standing that warrants at least normal progression   leading to graduation.
•   Maintain acceptable standards of conduct.
•   Comply with specified personal grooming standards. Common sense and good judgment apply to the attainment of these standards. Standards will not be relaxed so as to reflect disgrace on the United States Air Force or Marion High School.

*AFJROTC is not a U.S. Air Force recruitment program and cadets are never under any obligation to join the military. However, the program is grounded in the Air Force core values of “integrity first, service before self, and excellence in all we do.”

Scholarship Oppurtunies

• J100 Scholarship

  • The J-100 AFJROTC Character-in-Leadership Scholarship program provides 100 cadets a full scholarship with benefits.

    · Four years of 100% paid tuition at any university, or crosstown partner, with an AFROTC detachment
    · A $10,000 per-year allowance for university-owned/on-campus housing
    · An annual book stipend, and a monthly cadet stipend.

    Accepting the scholarship will require a cadet to meet all AFROTC requirements and pursue an officer commission.

    The J-100 scholarship program focuses on character, leadership, citizenship, and diversity and it inspires future leaders to seek careers in the US Air Force and Space Force. The J-100 program is open to all eligible cadets and is designed to provide an extraordinary opportunity for our diverse pool of candidates. Unit instructors are highly encouraged to take advantage of this remarkable program.

    Nomination and Eligibility Details

    The J-100 scholarship is for AFJROTC or SFJROTC graduating high school seniors with a minimum of 2 or more years of JROTC experience. Unit instructors may nominate 1 to 3 eligible cadets for this scholarship program, based on unit size. Cadets must ACCEPT the nomination before they can continue with the application. Declinations will reset the unit nomination allocation to allow instructors to nominate another cadet.

    1-150 Active Cadets = 1 Nomination
    151-300 Active Cadets = 2 Nominations
    301 or More Active Cadets = 3 Nominations

    Applicant Eligibility Criteria:

    · 3.0 unweighted GPA
    · 22 ACT or 1100 SAT
    · 50 Physical Fitness Score
    · Minimum of 2 calendar years of AFJROTC experience
    · US Citizen, or in the process of obtaining their US citizenship by first term of college freshman year

     

    The application process starts with instructors nominating an eligible cadet(s). Nominated cadets must meet all minimum eligibility requirements in order to move forward with the application process. It is imperative that SASI/ASIs pre-screen potential candidates and consider well-rounded cadets who have demonstrated leadership, character, and citizenship in and out of JROTC. Certain modules in the application require instructor validation of cadet data input, so please ensure enough time is allotted for both instructor and cadet actions. No extensions will be granted to the application deadline.

    Instructors and potentially nominated applicants should review AFROTC’s university list. Nominated applicants are encouraged to start college application actions prior to the J-100 application deadline. This is critical, as any AFJROTC scholarship select must have a Letter of Acceptance from their school of choice to accept the scholarship.

• Flight Academy

• • The Air Force JROTC Flight Academy is an approximately 8-week summer aviation training program, conducted at partnering universities nationwide. Upon successful completion of the program, students are awarded a Private Pilot’s Certification. The Flight Academy is intended to inspire and encourage high school youth toward aviation careers. The scholarship program is a collaborative effort between the aerospace industry and the Air Force to address a national pilot shortage. Currently, Boeing predicts an annual need to hire 6,000 civilian pilots a year for the next 20 years. The military needs to quickly push that number over 8,000. 
  • The Flight Academy also addresses a secondary national issue of diversity. Aviation is one of the least diverse professions in industry. Currently, women make up less than 7% of pilots and minorities represent less than 12%. Air Force Junior ROTC currently has almost 100,000 cadets enrolled in high schools across the nation and is the Air Force’s most diverse program. Minorities represent 58% of the Air Force Junior ROTC student body and females make up 40%. Cadets selected for the flight academy represented female and minorities more than three times the national averages.

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