Why Join AFJROTC?
(Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps)
The curriculum rotates each school year between LE/AS 100, LE 200/AS 220, LE/AS 300, and LE/AS 400. Our curriculum covers broad topics such as aviation history, the science of flight, world cultures, and introduction to space.
- Kite building – Cadets get in teams to build kites from basic materials and instructions.
- Hot air balloons – Cadets get in teams to assemble hot air balloons. Based on availability, students may be given the opportunity to experience a flight in a tethered hot air balloon at Lafayette.
- Aircraft model building – Cadets build model airplanes and research their plane and its history.
- Paper airplane, glider construction and motorized fly-by-wire model aircraft - Cadets are given basic materials to build complex paper airplanes and gliders. Cadets can also build motorized, line-controlled airplanes.
- Telescopes - Cadets may use a Meade telescope for astronomical viewing.
- Rocket building – Cadets build and launch model rockets.
- Note: Activities listed above may vary year-to-year based on student interests, available slots, funding, and availability of off-campus field trip locations.
Each year, we offer 2 Curriculum-in-Action trips. In previous years, our cadets have been to...
Note: Activities listed above may vary year-to-year based on student interests, available slots, funding, and availability of off-campus field trip locations.
- Washington, D.C.
- Abraham Lincoln Museum in Springfield, Illinois
- Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee
- Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio
- Air Force Museum (Dayton, Ohio)
- Montgomery, Alabama
- Science Center
- Beaumont Scout Camp
- Scott Air Force Base
- Spirit of St. Louis Airport (where second year cadets receive orientation flights in a Cessna aircraft)
- Smart Field Airport in St. Charles, Missouri
- Missouri Botanical Garden
- Jefferson Barracks
- Daytona Beach, Florida
- Wacky Warriors Paintball
- Skyzone Dodge Ball
- Cote Brilliant Elementary School
- St. Louis Science Center
- Flight Safety International (Cadets get to fly a commercial aircraft in a state of the art hydraulic simulator)
- AND MORE!
Note: Activities listed above may vary year-to-year based on student interests, available slots, funding, and availability of off-campus field trip locations.
Air Force JROTC offers a highly disciplined, action-oriented leadership environment. By enrolling in AFJROTC, you can learn and improve upon significant life skills that will help propel you in your future careers and education.
- Resume and Job interviews – Bi-yearly promotion boards, where cadets can earn a promotion to the next rank, provide practice in a job interview-like setting. In addition, fourth year cadets get help writing their resume and developing job interview skills.
- Military Drill/Honor Guards – Cadets develop poise, neatness, precision, confidence, self-discipline, and teamwork as basic movements of military drill are taught. Students can compete for varsity and junior varsity drill teams. Teams compete in and out of state. Major drill event is an annual trip to Florida for a drill competition.
- Stress management – First year cadets learn the physical and emotional consequences of stress, its causes, how to deal with it, and the difference between good and bad stress.
- Ethics – Cadets learn about the complexity of their own ethical decisions through a series of self-analysis exercises and interactive tapes. In addition, personal standard scenarios are role-played to better understand the individual value systems and moral codes.
- Management scenarios – Cadets role play as manager and subordinate in workplace situations in order to solve and be exposed to the nuances of "real life" people problems in the workplace.
- Time Management and study habits – First year cadets develop skills to learn how to manage their time more effectively through exercises, planning schedules, planning calendars, and efficient study methods. Goal setting, prioritizing, and proper planning techniques highlight this lesson.
- Drunk and drugged driving – After lessons on the issue of drunk driving and how to stop it from happening, students get a first-hand experience with drunk driving.
- Sexism/racism – Second year cadets participate in gender and ethnic role reversals to look at the reality of prejudice through different eyes. After discovering where prejudice comes from and how it is perpetuated, they will learn and discuss how they can eliminate it.
- Effective listening – Second year cadets learn how to improve their listening skills by constructing exact tinker toy "models" while sitting back to back: one cadet (the source) giving verbal instructions, and a partner (the receiver) who attempts to build an exact model replica.
- Suicide prevention – Second year cadets become aware of the third leading cause of death for teenagers by studying the twelve signs of suicide, why 5000 young people kill themselves each year, dispelling the myths about suicide, and what to look for in someone who may be considering suicide. Guest speakers and interactive tests are used to reinforce the lesson.
By enrolling in JROTC, you will gain access and exposure to numerous leadership camp opportunities. These camps, while not only looking good on resumes, build experience, community, integrity, discipline, and dedication that will follow you into any path that you choose.
- American Legion Auxiliary’s Boys and Girls State at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri
- American Legion Cadet Highway Patrol Academy in Jefferson City, Missouri
- Society of American Military Engineers at the United States Air Force Academy
- St. Louis Chapter of the Military Order of World Wars Leadership Forum at University of Missouri, St. Louis
- Safari Club’s American Wilderness Leadership Camp in Jackson Hole, Wyoming
- Cadet Leadership Camp (CLC) Cadets enrolled in AFJROTC are given an opportunity to attend a week long summer leadership camp at Scott AFB, IL. Attendance is voluntary and based on academic performance, classroom behavior, and leadership involvement in AFJROTC. Successful completion of SLS earns each participating cadet .5-credit hours toward graduation requirements
- This course may be used as a elective credit, and it also counts towards the Career and Technical Edu. credit. (CTE)
- AFJORTC looks great on college and job applications, particularly if you achieve a high position in the unit.
- Students with an interest in the Armed Forces may use AFJROTC enrollment to gain preferential consideration for college scholarships, Academy appointments, or enlistment in the military services at a higher initial rank and/or pay.
- Enrolling in AFJROTC does not obligate you in any way towards serving in the military!
- The curriculum is divided into Aerospace Science, Leadership Education, and Uniform Wear, Community Service, and PT/Wellness. For more information, please refer to the syllabus on the Student Center ↗.