Re: You Might Not Ever Guess that these folks ever served in the Military


"Ron W" <ronw@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"George Z. Bush" wrote:>
No....junior ROTC in high schools did not exist during WWII.

George Z

George, I was in JROTC in Tampa, Fl. Spring, 1943 - Summer 1946, and it
existed
well before then. We lost our Springfield rifles and had the wooden
replicas. These
were later replaced with the M1 Garand. I then went to Gordon Military
College in
Barnesville Ga. who also had JROTC during the entire WWII period. Now the
Air Force ROTC didn't start until my junior year at FSU, but I was not
eligible as I didn't have the
first two years. Of course after I had graduated and enlisted, they were
commissioning
graduates who only had the senior year!!!!!!!

If it was at the collegiate level, that is not "J"ROTC--the J stands for
"junior", and is exclusive to the secondary school level. Gordon Military
College could therefore not have had a "JROTC" program, but instead would
have had an ROTC program. The USAF and USN did not establish JROTC programs
until the early 1960's, while the Army had first started it in 1916. An
interesting fact was that originally completion of three years of JROTC
could conceivably lead to the granting of a reserve commission once the
graduate reached the age of 21, though based upon the history of the program
this never was actually implemented. A decent history of JROTC can be found
at:

www.khsd.k12.ca.us/south/ gied33/greg_underwood/JROTC_History.htm

Brooks





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