Officials' Preparation Corps (ROTC) in the Philippines is one of three segments of the National

Assistance Preparing System, the municipal training and safeguard readiness program for
Filipino understudies. Alumni of the ROTC advance program serve in all parts of the Military of
the Philippines.
Why is ROTC important? ROTC programs give understudies noteworthy chances and
advantages. Members in ROTC get important preparing just as budgetary help for their training.
They are upheld in the advancement of solid individual attributes, for example, self-restraint,
certainty, and administration. Normally the duration for ROTC is based on grant victors must
serve for a long time; non-grant Cadets who join up with the ROTC Propelled Course should
serve for a long time. All who graduate and complete ROTC preparing are authorized as Second
Lieutenants in the U.S. Armed force.

The Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (ROTC) is one of the three elements of the National
Service Training Program (NSTP) in every college curriculum. It aims to provide military
training to tertiary level students in order to motivate, train, organize and mobilize them for
national defense preparedness. (R.A. 9163, n.d). The program is also expected to imprint moral
values and patriotism to the youth.

Last July 25, 2016, our President Rodrigo Duterte mentioned that he wants to strengthen the
ROTC program by making it mandatory to the college students, regardless of what their gender
is. According to him, fortifying the said program would help instill love of country and good
citizenship. (Tan & Bacungan, n.d.). Same with what our President proposed, the groups who
supports ROTC says that the program not only aims to instill patriotism, but it also develops
personality and leadership skills that may help the cadets to build successful civilian careers in
the near future. (JA Media Solutions Inc., 2009). But as we all know, everything that has a
positive response will always have a negative one.

These youths, the cadets are casted to be future leaders of our country and to be the hope of our
nation, here where some of our finest warriors are products of the ROTC. They are equipped
mentally, physically, socially, and emotionally. They are trained to be disciplined, to build a
better personality, and to overcome weaknesses. Military Professionalism is not the only lesson
taught here but as well as the Conduct of a good Civilian. ROTC is one good way of keeping the
youth away from harmful vices. As Rizal quoted “The youth are the hope of the nation”.

ROTC Cadets as part of the youth sector are the hope of the nation and one of the primary
movers on empowering peace and progress of the nation. As they come back to civilian life they
are prepared to be a soldier, a leader, and a better civilian or member in the society. They are
deployed as civilians to contribute in the development and progress of the society and nation.
What Parents cannot taught and straighten up to their children for years, can be done and
straighten in several Sundays in ROTC. Disciplined and cooperative members of the society are
one of the ingredients for the peace and progress of the nation.

These duties and service to the nation may be done not only by the Cadets or men in military
service, but also by people in the civilian community or any ordinary citizen in the society. Small
actions can make a big difference. Men in uniform cannot do these things all by themselves
effectively, but rather if the civilians will come in aid to them or cooperate with them big
difference will come out, Peace and Progress in the Philippines. In this we can say that Military
is no powerful or more useful than the civilians. Men in uniform have been trained to gain more
abilities, but they are trained to phold the civilian supremacy at all times. The ROTC Cadets
magnifies the epitomical image of an ideal Filipino who contributes to the progress and keeping
the harmony among the Filipinos in the Philippines. This shows that the ROTC Cadets as a
future reservist are the epitome of an ideal citizen of our country. A citizen that has a heart to
sympathize his fellow Filipinos, and a soldier that has patriotism to preserve the peace and order
in the country. Be a young hero, join the unit, be an ROTC Cadet!