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  • Field training separates the cadets in gmc and poc courses. This is required for the second half of AFROTC and an officer commission. There are limited spots for field training and it is very competitive between cadets. I am joining afrotc and doing the first two years of gmc in one year. I will prove that I deserve a slot to serve among the nations finest

  • This is the optional field training open during your Sophomore summer, correct? I'm headin to SIU:C here in 10 days, and am enrolled in the ROTC program. I can't wait!

  • Looks 10000000 times better than our FTX.  You guys got to at least use blanks, we had rubber ducks.

  • JOINING!!! Class of 2015

  • @FilmsareGreat Right there with ya! Man I can't wait for this!

  • Det 205? i thought all schools in Illinois go to det 195

  • what does FTX stand for?

  • @Mega554321 Field Trainig Excercise

  • Woken up with blanks ? who comes up with this stuff haha

  • I cant wait till im in AFROTC at IIT

  • looks really fun

  • yaaaaay AIR FORCE ROTC!!! && US AIR FORCE ALL THE WAY!!! LOL CANT WAIT FOR THIS. THIS GONNA BE ME IN COLLEGE SOON && ONCE I GRADUATE BE A 2ND LT IN USAF AHHH CANT WAIT!!!! ;D

  • Got FTX this upcoming April. I'm AJROTC though, but im guessing its much similar since its also 3 days.

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  • AFROTC Cadet from Rutgers: Man I wish our FTX was this fun. Go Air Force!

  • I wish I had an intense FTX for my FTP

  • @TMan0494 You can enter AFROTC at any time during your freshman and sophomore year of college. Once you are not considered sophomore status anymore you are out of luck.

  • they had tents? I didnt get a tent on my last FTX, I just a sleeping bag cover and a hooch... man Airforce ROTC gets pampered, while Army ROTC get crap and out dated sleep systems

  • @CaptainRednose hey can u tell me more about ur ftx

  • @BlackDragonSociety91

    no, just officers

  • Go Air Force - love you guys!!

  • @BlackDragonSociety91 this is a weekend field training exercise for AFROTC cadets typically held sometime in the fall

    sources: going to Alpena for this in 2 weeks!

  • u cant serve if u werent born in the us right?

  • @xxmanuelvaldesxx no you can serve if you were born outside the US.

  • @xxmanuelvaldesxx You can only serve if you are a citizen, so if you were born in another country but you have gained citizenship status, you can still serve.

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  • I wanna join! and fuck you who called these young men pathetic.

  • Dang! This Detachment has a great deal of money to put on a FTX like this! The best I think I have seen.

  • i wasn't gonna do this, but then i heard ac/dc. so now, IM CONVINCED YEAAH

  • Yea, They should of went through BMT, This looks like a cake walk compared to that.

  • Ah, this will be easy! After going through enlisted basic training, they're not gonna yell! Shit yeah!

  • @nmon1 lol and I know! no yelling? not saying this is a cakewalk compared to BMT. . .but it seems rather luxurious in comparison.

  • why do the air force rotc cadets have to be familiar with the M-16 and M-249? The M9 I can understand in case they get shot down...but the M-16 and M-249?

  • @TheMaindog1 Yeah, I was wondering too! Our AF Officers never carried anything but a M-9 in the desert, unless they were LRO's or something that went outside the wire!

  • i'm excited already , only 4 girls from my campus applied and i'm one of them :D

  • Is this what I'll be doing when I start rotc at the beginning of the next school year?

  • @aleksandrhall depends on what branch of service ur unit is

  • @TheMaindog1 Seeing as how this is an AFROTC video, its would have been safe to assume I meant air force. But, now you know.

  • This looks awesome. I live near SIUC. I used to think the guys there would be southern-Illinois assholes, but these guys look awesome. Ill apply here but I would like to go to U of I urbana.

  • @shaneomac210

    You an ignorant fuck. Only 4% of the USAF fly aircraft, the rest are on the ground, just like our marine and navy and army friends. All the other branches would fail if one was lost. Get a reality check.

  • wow, this is ALOT different then wat i saw wen i was watchin sumthing bout the air academy

  • Nebel255 i believe it is either 1 mile or 1 1/2 miles

  • i know football will be nothing compared to this, but playing football has made me do things i though i would never do, hope it has prepared me some what for this.

  • builds up ur stamina

  • please turn off the light

    hahaahh

  • Can someone please tell me how many miles do you have to run during the ROTC FT? Or is the no running at all?

  • I did use google. Couldn't find. Yeah, I read on the web that for the PFT it's 1.5 mile, but I wasn't sure if during regular training you're supposed to do more. Well, thank you!

  • 1.5

  • one and a half miles in under 10 minutes for men

  • I can't wait to do this stuff. I know it's going to be tough, but it's so my element.

  • You are pathetic if you have to go on you tube and watch kids wanting to serve their country and then call them pathetic, you sir, are pathetic

  • @USAFp90x Well said!

  • did you go to Air Force Academy. You are lucky aren't you ? I am sooo jealous. Any way.

  • they aren't nerds u wouldn't last 5 mins

  • so when do the rotc's do basic training? I know they do a Field training thing during there sophmore year. is that the same as basic training?

  • ROTC cadets go to Field Training after their sophomore year. It's the ROTC equivalent of enlisted basic training. It's not the same as basic training, but it's similar.

  • are they equally hard?

  • Enlisted basic training is longer and more physically demanding. Officer field training is mentally more demanding. They make you step up and be a leader. I have to go to FT next summer, and to be honest, I'd rather go through BT.

  • This looks like more fun than Field Training

  • So if I wanted to be a officer in the USAF I would have to do this?

  • ROTC, Academy, officer or enlisted everyone in the military eventually does this.This was just 3 days, In real feild training its 4-5 weeks of this. We marched 12 miles with 150lbs of gear,without rest.I got shot at, blown up, gased, and killed around 20 times at FTX,I even stepped on a grenade! But it gives you a sense of what we are here to do, and how we are expected to carry out when deployed and also teaches traits that you'll need as a leader.If you wanna be an officer U gotta to be tough!

  • your comparing the Air Force to the Marines. Completely different type of person wanted for the job.

  • @Blademaster865 alright since obviously no one knows exactly what this is. it's not the air force's ROTC boot camp. I'm in the Army ROTC and we have fall ftx and so does navy ROTC which also includes the MARINES. Not all cadets have to go to this every year it's completely volunteer. BUT since our military kicks so much ass. we all usually go anyway. So Mr.Blade. All ROTC branches have to go to the officer equivelant of basic training. Dont talk shit if you don't know what you're talking about.

  • Did this all in AFROTC? Wow you have access to good equipment. Mine was M-16 qualification and air soft scenarios in a mock town. Not near as stressful as that.

  • hohohoh next year baby I'm doing this next summer AIR POWER!!!! woohooo!

  • same here. goin to texas texas a&m for afrotc, gonna be sick.

  • I don't know where I'm going but it'll be sweet.

  • Hey is all ftx like this? I'm headed to ftx this weekend and I was wondering if it's going to be like this.

  • Finally an informative video about AFROTC training

  • Wish my det. had these kinds of resources...

  • Really tell me about it.. We finally got to use paint ball guns this last semester!!.. and we only had 10 guns per each of our 4 squadrons of 16ish people. (some people just had rubber duckys while the enemy had a firing paint ball gun. lol. I'm off to Field Training this summer 20 MAY 2008, MAXWELL 2!!

  • Please turn of the light. . .

  • our detachment is going to use paint ball guns... fucking gay :(

  • hahah i wish i had this kinda equipment when i went through AFROTC, but it was still a great program.

  • 'Tis better than to be an ass-kisser.

  • Whatever kills the terrorists my Canadian friend...eh? Now that's what I'm talking aboot.

  • I cant wait to do air force rotc its my dream to become a pilot

  • hahah I LOVE HOW HE SAYS! "Pls Turn Off The Light" HAHA

  • funny. everyones idea of air force is still based on decades-old stereotypes.

    look around. AF has changed. were taking the ground jobs in iraq, along side the army, gettin shot at and shooting back just like every other branch in the sandbox. airmen's bodies come home the same way marines and soldiers do.

    no branch can do this alone, despite how much pride you wish you had in one.

    so go ahead. laugh it up. we'll see what happens when you owe your life to an airman.

  • How did y'all manage to get that equipment?! We do good to raise enough to have one LLab AEF exercise with old paintball guns. We didnt even get to use cool stuff during Field Training...just orange rubber M-16s. We need more of that kinda stuff!

    I am definitely jealous.

  • You fucking killers always stay on alert for a fucker to come after you is a bad thing, Semer Fi.

  • Semer Fi???? Learn your latin mate

  • This video is merely a weekend where ROTC cadets go out and have fun. It isn't really training. It isn't supposed to be hard. It is just a weekend.

  • As an AFROTC cadet I take offense to that for two reasons. First, the marine ROTC does the same thing, and FTX is a fun time. It is nothing like field training that all ROTC cadets must go through over the summer, summer field training is the equivelent of boot camp for all "out of highschool" inlistees in both the Air Force and the Marines..... and on top of that after all that is done you still have at least 2 more years of ROTC to go before your enlistment begins and you get full pay.

  • hey is ftp really like this? I want to give a presenation about afrotc and i think this video is a great visual?

  • ...or you could join the navy ROTC which feeds its cadets straight into the marine corps you noob. if you think the AF is so easy, go join the EOD. the marines...so easy a caveman could do it

  • hmla369fe I'd like to respond to your comment by saying that the Marine Corps and anything related to American Military nowadays for that matter would be nothing without Air Power. And if you can't see that, then your too dense to realize how many times Air Power has bailed ground troops out of multiple troublesome situations. Please think before your post negative responses and back them up if your going too.

  • Heard of a MAGTF? A Marine Air Ground Task Force is virtually autonomous, we've got our own 'Air Power' (hooah?).

  • We? MixtureRich you're an OC, not a Marine. If you were, you'd know that HOOAH is an Army word (Marines say Oohrah). :D

  • And if you had a shred of wit in that Army brain of yours, you may realize that the parenthetical 'hooah' was out of sarcasm. I didn't realize Army guys were reading this or I would have broken it down Barney style.

  • Excuse me "Candidate"...what was your AFQT?

  • I didn't take the ASVAB, I took the ASTB (look it up). Go ahead and wow me with your awesome score on the ASVAB anyway though. I think there have been studies where chimpanzees have scored 99 on that thing.

    Army strong!

  • Hey jackass...all services take the ASVAB. :D My stepbrother scored 28. He's enjoying USMC-SOI right now. (Got waivered in)

  • And I just went through OCS, and didn't take the ASVAB buddy. Do your research.

  • ASTB...so you're aspiring to be an aviator. Air support. Dunno what we'd do without it. I guess that's why we don't have CCTs in my unit...

  • Marine Corps basic training is NOT any easier than Air Force basic training. The easy one is Army. They have eight hours of sleep, all you can eat in the chow hall, NO YELLING,and you are allowed to use your cell phone. The Army is the branch you should be saying things about. Air Force Basic Training is modeled after the Marine Corps basic training so, it is really similar.

  • If my grandfather who was in the air force and served from WW2 to Vietnam saw what you wrote he would be ashamed of the image of the marine corps to find out that you where his brothers in arms.

  • Air Force RTOC is great and you are the best bicycle riders I have ever seen. All SIUC ROTC's will become the greatest fighter pilots and officers who ever lived. Chesty will be proud of every bike rider. Kill'em all it is easy, just protect your brother.

  • You have alot of nerve to make a statement like that, its a good thing this is Youtube because if i saw you in person i would report your ass in a heartbeat for making a statement like you made down below. Air force ROTC has helped in alot of ways especially helping me lose weight and get ready for the security forces.

  • Oh, and by the way, that comment wasn't directed towards anyone in particular, just people who seem to think that their service is awesome and all of the others suck. If that's you, please consider what I said.

  • I realize it isn't as tough as what Marines have to do, but I respect them for that. Don't call us Air Force personnel pussies for what we do. You use us for air support, and we use you for ground support. Our ability to work together is what makes us so dominant. So let's act like we enjoy serving together, because that's how we get things done.

  • It's amazing how much everyone puts down each others' services. I know everyone has a bias towards the service they are in, but to make fun of another service when you're in the military is ridiculous, and un-professional. We are on the same team! Act like it. I'm in AFROTC with one year left, field training wasn't easy, but at the same time it wasn't that bad.

  • But your in training and that's all that counts for now. Be serious and Honor your rank and service. If you have balls, that's perfect because balls all that counts. Semper Fidelis

  • I am a Huey, Cobra Helicopter mech, with that I thought was safe in the airwing. The enemy bombs still came down on us and my ground pounding training made us servive, don't think your safe in the Air Force SEMPER FI.

  • Your on the same side, but you need to be trained with some balls. War is not this pussy shit. When rounds are coming down range you'll wish you were trained like the Marines. Then at least you know you'll be able to fight back ROTC meatheads. God Bless your poorly trained ASSES.

  • Now I am sure that the eloquent vocabulary of the Army/Marine ground-pounders, is a small sampling of the gratitude and usefulness that they give to the Air Force's air power. Talk to the dudes on the ground and they will tell you what is up. Till then shut you damn mouths! BTW, the dude that made this won an Emmy; he is now a Second Lieutenant in the Air Force.

  • First off I want to tell you all how cool you are for boasting about your service, but wannabes have no weight when it comes to bad mouthing other services. Your lack of knowledge and ignorance of the 'big picture' is amazing. This is what those 'Pussy-ass' Air Force cadets are doing a few short years later...

    watch?v=eXHOPW8QrJw

    or simply search 'Close Air Support'

  • It puzzles me how the egg heads over at officer accessions in AETC comes up with stuff like this. All sorts of 'familiarization training', i.e. half-baked ground combat skills, but where does it go from there? At least the Academy has Beast Barracks, but where's the trickle down effect to the other courses?

    Totally unlike Army ROTC, wherein future Platoon Leaders are expected. These future 'Flight Chiefs' have a long way to go...

  • It's not bootcamp idiots...listen to the fucking video...its just a simulation

  • I know it's the air force but, we did all this training in FTX before breakfast in Marine Combat Training. This is not the military,it's pussy shit. We did that shit on the weekends for fun, and I was an airwing. Semper Fi.

  • WHAT!? MY AFJROTC boot camp is 2 weeks and it is crazier than this! 2 mile march? We do a 15 mile march the first day, then halfway through our boot camp, we do a 20 mile force march! PT at 0430 every morning! What's this!? The blank ammo and live fire was cool tough.

  • yeah right... jrtoc doesn't do ftx's like army rotc does.

  • hell jrotc doesn't do what rotc in any branch does. JROTC is just marches, military hisotry, and looking good. I've never heard of a jrotc doing anything close to an FTX that any rotc branch does. As for this being as good as boot camp. It's not supposed to be boot camp. ROTC is a program to produce officers. Training is spanned over 4 years rather than a mere 3 months. Real boot camp type scenarios happen in LDAC.

  • LOL how was summer camp?

  • Ha ha What is this pussy shit. Get it off the internet this isn't anything. Try Marine corp bootcamp.

  • Haha, I could embarrass you physically and through marksmanship and Im Air Force ROTC. Dont be such a meat head, we are all on the same side and our air support has bailed you guys out countless times.

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