“JROTC is one of the best recruiting devices that we could have.”
—William Cohen, then Secretary of Defense, February 2000
A flier distributed to San Diego teacher union members during a successful strike in 1996. While almost all other teachers respected the picket lines, all 21 of the district's JROTC instructors crossed them. Note that JROTC textbook quotes on the flier are from books that have since been revised and may not contain the same text.
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1999 Memo from U.S. Army Cadet Command ordering JROTC teachers to help the military recruit students into the Army. Documents the way JROTC has been used as a recruiting tool.
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The military-sponsored Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program teaches its lessons to over 550,000 students in classrooms at approximately 3,400 high schools around the country (“Geographic and Demographic Representativeness of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps,” Rand Corporation, 2017).
This Guide contains information on steps that can be taken to remove JROTC shooting ranges and marksmanship training from high schools. The content is based on decades of research and extensive experience organizing around the JROTC issue, including a campaign that succeeded in a highly militarized community. Samples of materials used in that campaign are at the end of the Guide.
Uses personnel budget from one school to illustrate how JROTC can cost more than other educational programs.
Explains how JROTC subsidy is calculated and why it becomes an added expense for schools.
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