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(Left) Det 800 Color Guard presenting the colors during UT Women’s Soccer game. (Right) Cadets conducting a Fitness Assessment. • Both Photos courtesy of Public Liaison Flight, 800th Cadet Wing, AFROTC
Air Force ROTC leaders fly, fight, win Shelby Whitehead Contributor
Based on the core values of “integrity first, service before self and excellence in all we do,” the Air Force ROTC program at UT molds students into military leaders. “The core values are everything,” Evan Tuck, public liaison flight commander, said. “They are things to guide you through your personal life. The Air Force
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believes those are things you should abide by all the time, and you use the core values as something to come back to and to help you make good decisions.” AFROTC is found at the intersection of military training, leadership focus and character development at the university level. “You’re held to a different moral standard, I think, by society when you become a military officer, and those core values help make sure you maintain that high standard for yourself,” Tuck said. AFROTC is a four-year program that
students may begin within their freshman or sophomore years. Many scholarships are available to students through the AFROTC program. There are three stages to AFROTC. The first is the general military course when cadets learn about the air force and military environment before making a commitment to service. This is a time of bonding among underclassmen cadets. The next step is field training. Field training is very similar to basic training, which means strict dietary standards and no contact with the outside world. Unlike
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basic training, though, field training is geared toward leading rather than following. “Basic training is to indoctrinate you into the military and teaches you to be a good follower,” Tuck said. “Field training is about throwing you into leadership situations where you’re under a lot of stress and seeing how you respond to that and evaluating you and helping you get better as a leader, instead of a follower.” See AFROTC on Page 3
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