Reserve Officer Training Corps
ROTC is a program institutionalized under Sections 38 and 39 of Republic Act No. 7077 designed to provide military training to tertiary level students in order to motivate, train, organize and mobilize them for national defense preparedness.
Mission
To train and develop college students enrolled in ROTC program in the requirements of military service and produce capable AFP reservists.
Objectives
- To prepare the college students for possible service in the defense establishments in the event of emergency.
- To train and develop the ROTC cadets as future enlisted reservists for that components of the AFP.
- To encalculate in the youth the spirit of patriotism and nationalism.
- To develop and promote the physical, moral, spiritual, intellectual and social well-being of the youth.
- To train and develop the youth as potential community leaders, and
- To develop civic consciousness and good citizenship among the youth.