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<\/a>Nicholas Myers says ROTC has taught him how to do things in a more efficient and practical way through training in such things as land navigation and rappelling off of towers. It has also taught him accountability, punctuality and time management.<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cIt was a great experience just to be inside of that med school,\u201d said Myers, who was intrigued by the muscles and skeletal system of the human body. \u201cIt was a very nice facility and I very much appreciated the professors there. That really got me starting to think that I would like this campus as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cementing his decision to attend the university was a full ROTC scholarship. Myers, a sophomore biology major, hopes to get into the Wright State University\u2019s Boonshoft School of Medicine and go on to be a physician in the U.S. Army.<\/p>\n
The Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps (ROTC) is a college-based program to train students to become commissioned officers of the armed forces.<\/p>\n
Myers\u2019 interest in ROTC stemmed from his older brother, who went through ROTC at Bowling Green State University.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just ended up being a perfect fit, especially when I found out they would offer me a four-year scholarship here,\u201d Myers said.<\/p>\n
Myers says ROTC has taught him how to do things in a more efficient and practical way through training in such things as land navigation and rappelling off of towers. It has also taught him accountability, punctuality and time management.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Myers, a sophomore biology major, hopes to get into the Wright State University\u2019s Boonshoft School of Medicine and go on to be a physician in the U.S. Army.<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cI have to balance all of the requirements for my biology degree off of all of my requirements for the military,\u201d he said. \u201cROTC has also given me a lot more respect for my professors and taught me how to appropriately interact with them.\u201d<\/p>\n
ROTC has also broadened Myers\u2019 horizons.<\/p>\n
As part of the Army\u2019s cultural understanding and language proficiency program, Myers went to Romania, where he trained with Romanian paratroopers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was an amazing experience just to basically hang out with Romanian special forces soldiers and to learn many of their cultural practices,\u201d he said. \u201cI learned so much about Romanians themselves, and I had barely known of them before I had gone over.\u201d<\/p>\n
And it was not all work and no play.<\/p>\n
Myers was able to play a little recreational basketball\u2014on a makeshift court on a blocked-off city street and on another court more than a half mile underground in a salt mine.<\/p>\n
So far, the Wright State ROTC experience has been quite a journey for Myers, who grew up in a Norman Rockwell-like village of 1,700, where he was active in his church and would participate in service projects such as going to the local filling station and buying gasoline for people.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great town to grow up in,\u201d he said. \u201cI could walk down the street and know at least half the people I came across.\u201d<\/p>\n
Visit http:\/\/www.wright.edu\/army-rotc<\/a> to learn more about army ROTC at Wright State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It was a summer anatomy camp at Wright State that hooked him. Continue reading