Involvement Hours

[Airbourne Infantry]

This year my Squadron has instituted a new policy: Every Enlisted Cadet must have a minimum of 15 volunteer/involvement hours and every Officer 20 hours minimum. These hours can be from attending community service projects, Corps activities, Open Houses, etc. I think it's a really good idea that will get everyone involved whether they want to be or not. Does anyone else do this?

[ang1sgt]

Of course it is a good idea. Most schools are making it a requirement that you do some Community Service outside of the school. These situations help round out the individual and also give YOUR Unit some exposure to the world outside of your School. I applaud ideas like this!

[Airbourne Infantry]

As do I. It's not like it's hard though, I mean we've only had three activities so far (with an airshow coming up on Oct. 4) and the lowest ranking enlisted Cadet in my flight has ten hours already!

[TruBlu]

That's a really good idea! I never thought of requiring it. To make it a requirement, you would have to go through your SASI and the Principal and make it official right? Would it be added to part of the curriculum for the course, or is it just something that everyone needs to do and is told about when they get in? I just want to figure out how someone else did it before I stroll on up to my SASI or principal and demand action lol .

[Infinite]

Our unit has a policy of five for enlisted and 10 for officers, but we average 28 hours per cadet. Why do we do it? Because its great community publicity.
By the way, you're going all the way to Vance AB from Texas for an airshow?

[C/ZOOMIE]

In my CAP Squadron I believe the rule is one must attend 75% of the meetings. I agree thought that we should have a community service requirement............

[amarine'slittlegrunt]

You know, I would have never thought of making community service a requirement. All I know is that you need community service to promote, which all you need is 2 per quarter. But we also have a policy that if you get a detention or something, 2 community services will cancel out 1 detention. (Note this is for JROTC). But, I will be sure to bring this up the chain of command and see what I can get done. Thanks for the Idea!



-AMLG

[Drill for life]

My unit cannot do this because a lot of our Cadets are Charter students and our SAI and AI have it hard enough as it is without adding something else. In your unit do after-school activities count as Community Service? The closet thing we do to that is Service Learning,Toys for Tots.

[Airbourne Infantry]

TruBlu: Our Group Commander went through the ASI/SASI who in turn went to the principal of the school to get the green light. Note: it's community service and involvement hours. So a Cadet can acquire hours by showing up to Corps activities or by actually volunteering for service through JROTC. Also, hours outside of JROTC are good but they don't count. Every Cadet must give to the community and participate while they are representing JROTC and not some other organization like Boy Scouts, National Honor Society, etc.

Drill For Life: We're pretty relaxed on the types of things that can get Cadets hours. Obviously, service projects count but by simply showing up to Corps picnics, flight challenges, open houses, airshows, or other activities in which the Cadet gets involved with the Corps or gives back to the community the Cadet can rack up the hours. But other activities like the awards ceremony, military ball, and drill meets don't count because they only apply to drill teams and are strictly activites for enjoyment.

[StormCrow]

Does everyone except me think that community service is just used to promote your unit? Promote it to who for what? Guys, JROTC is not a business that needs to be advertised. What are you selling? Nothing...You should participate in community service for the need to give beck to your community and that scary thought that Storm quivers at...you all might just...learn something.

Storm