Reserve Officer's Training Corps

The Reserve Officer's Training Corps is a college-based program for training Commissioned Officers of the United Stars Armed Forces. ROTC officers serve in all branches of the USotG Armed Forces, although the Union Navy and Marine Corps do not commission ROTC graduates directly, they too must pass through Basic Training but might skip year two and three.

While most colleges and universities provide ROTC either themselves or in a partnership with another college or university on the same planet, the number of Officers commissioned through these programs is relatively small. With 20% of their commissioned officers comming from those programs the Union Army has by far the largest percentage of their officers coming from that program. Within the Army, nearly 80% of the commissioned officers who went through ROTC are a part of the Union Army Corps of Planetary Engineering.

The largest ROTC program is the one at the Wurgus Solar Engineering School. This ROTC program functions the closest to an Army Academy, and nearly 95% of the graduates from this program who are commissioned are assigned to the Army Corps of Engineers.

Most of the few ROTC graduates that are eventually commissioned into the Union Navy or the Union Marine Corps, are assigned to billets that are considered "non combat."