Starting Rank

[Airbourne Infantry]

In my Squadron we all used to start off our Cadet careers as Cadet Airman Basics. This year though, all of the new Cadets are starting off as Cadet Airmen. Is this even allowed? What do you think?

[TruBlu]

My unit (squadron) does the same thing, and I don't agree with it. c/AB is the rank that you should start with, and you should earn c/Amn like every other rank within the AFJROTC in my opinion. Its allowed, at least I've never seen anything that is against it, but I'll have to look into it (my first Google search relieved nothing, time for bigger guns). Nothing will probably turn up against this, its just a choice that your (like mine) unit commander made (or is it SASI/ASI?). I know my unit does it to make people "feel good" about having something on their uniform .

[flyBoy2010]

In my unit we have a week long camp for the incoming Freshman to go to the week before school starts. They learn basic drill, the chain of command, and are issued uniforms. If they attend this camp then they are promoted to C/Amn.
Everyone else starts as c/AB.

[armysc_25b]

That's exactly how my old AJROTC unit operated. That week long Orientation Camp taught incoming LET-1 cadets everything we required them to know in order to advance from c/PVT to c/PV2. At the end of the week, we promoted them. In turn, they were able to turn around and help teach their peers. It's a win-win situation for all involved.

[TruBlu]

Originally Posted by flyBoy2010

In my unit we have a week long camp for the incoming Freshman to go to the week before school starts. They learn basic drill, the chain of command, and are issued uniforms. If they attend this camp then they are promoted to C/Amn.
Everyone else starts as c/AB.

That sounds really cool! If my unit was big enough and had enough freshman interest, I'd bring it up to my SASI, but I don't think anything would ever come of it for us. But that's really cool, is this something that a lot of units do?

[flyBoy2010]

I'm not sure, but it seems that we aren't the only unit to do so.
Also, size isn't an issue. We had only 50 cadets in the program my freshman year. This year we are up to 96, if we can get another 4 by Oct. 1 we are off probation!

[TruBlu]

Originally Posted by flyBoy2010

I'm not sure, but it seems that we aren't the only unit to do so.
Also, size isn't an issue. We had only 50 cadets in the program my freshman year. This year we are up to 96, if we can get another 4 by Oct. 1 we are off probation!

Ah, well what I meant is that we don't have the dedicated numbers. We may also be going on probation soon, our numbers are dwindling very very fast. I don't even know if we will hit 100 by the end of next semester... But whatever, we'll just keep making people sign up lol (just kidding...kinda...)!

[flyBoy2010]

We've slowly been building up our numbers over the past few years. At one point we were down to about 20 cadets.

[C/ZOOMIE]

I started out in MCJROTC as an E-1. I think thats how it should be in ANY JROTC unit......

[TruBlu]

Originally Posted by flyBoy2010

We've slowly been building up our numbers over the past few years. At one point we were down to about 20 cadets.

Dang! I hope it never gets like that at my unit. But it sounds like you guys are rebounding so good luck on keeping up the good work!