I joined army ROTC in 1988 after my sophmore year so I had to complete the "ROTC Bootcamp" to make up for missing the first two years of campus courses. The ROTC basic training consisted of 6 weeks at Ft. Knox and was a modified form of basic training. We had saturday night and sunday's off, and since most of us weren't under contract we could leave at anytime. However, the field training excercises were pretty tough, we did spend a lot of time in the woods.
Once it was over they tried to get you to sign up. If you did (like me), they sent you to Ft. Bragg the following summer for another 6 week program that essentially was the army's way of paying you back for all that time off at Ft. Knox. We had the morning of July 4th off, that was it (except for a few hours each Sunday morning to attend church). We also spent about 25 of the 42 nights I was there in the field, and Ft. Bragg in June/July isn't exactly a hospitable place to spend your summer.
Good luck to your son, hopefully he gets a good assignment and the broken arm doesn't keep him out long.
Right, I understand your post. Now you join the ROTC Unit when you start college, in your freshman and sophmore year you attend classes during the school year and go on different exercises during the school year. You do not receive any financial support from the Military for you College Tuition. It is in you Junior year of college that you "CONTRACT" with the Army for your tuition and you receive a monthly stipend. I believe it's the equivelent pay a sargent (E-5) receives, during the last 2 years of college. This coming summer he will attend the courses, Air assault and other at various Military Instalations, Ft. Lewis being one of them. He will also go to the ROTC Bootcamp!
My son joined the Army reserves so that he would be able to go to the Enlisted Bootcamp. He did this because he wanted to!! You have to know my son! He has been running all through middle school and high school. I suggested he use his old book bag to put weights in from his weight bench. So he has been running with an extra 40lbs on his back.
I told him his back pack would be 60-80 lbs so he better get used to it. So he was running 2 miles in @ 12-13 min with the 40 bookbag. He went for his Army physical and ran the 2 miles 11 min and 40 secs. When he went to the Enlisted bootcamp he was in the 11 -12 min range, they caught him limping and found he was running that time with a broken bone in his foot!!
He's sure he can break the ten minute barrier. He also like to rapel down the sides of the barnes around where we live. He went down the Warrior tower face first and walked down the side of the tower!! Like I said you have to know my son. He's been getting ready for bootcamp for about 5 years. He even took his bed out of his room and sleeps on the floor. He did that when he was in high school, he is finishing his sophomore year in college.