{"id":25443,"date":"2018-02-09T06:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=25443"},"modified":"2018-02-09T00:28:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T06:28:11","slug":"apsu-rotc-looking-for-college-sophomores-offering-5000-bonus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2018\/02\/09\/apsu-rotc-looking-for-college-sophomores-offering-5000-bonus\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU ROTC looking for college sophomores, offering $5,000 bonus"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AustinClarksville, TN<\/strong> – Austin Peay State University\u2019s ROTC program is looking for the best and brightest college students in the country, and the U.S. Army is willing to pay a little extra for these qualified soldiers.<\/p>\n

Through the Army, Austin Peay\u2019s ROTC program is now offering a $5,000 bonus to college sophomores who complete the program\u2019s cadet basic training and go on to become commissioned officers.<\/p>\n

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Austin Peay State University ROTC<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re looking for high-quality college sophomores to join ROTC and attend basic camp here at Fort Knox this summer,\u201d Maj. Gen. Christopher P. Hughes, commanding general of U.S. Army Cadet Command, said. If these individuals successfully complete basic camp, Cadet Command will contract them and pay the $5,000 signing bonus.<\/p>\n

Upon graduation, cadets who have successfully completed the military science requirements will receive a position as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army. The cadet may elect to be part of the Regular Army, Army Reserve or Army National Guard.<\/p>\n

The wide range of jobs and occupations within the Army requires it to recruit officers from all degree fields.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy joining APSU\u2019s ROTC program, you will become part of one of the nation\u2019s top ROTC programs, training among both traditional cadets and seasoned veterans seeking to serve as Army officers,\u201d Lt. Col. John Montgomery, chair of the APSU Department of Military Science, said. \u201cIt is an experience that will be both challenging and rewarding, while also providing you with leadership skills that will help you throughout your career as both an officer and a civilian.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interested college sophomores should contact Julius R. Kelley III by email at kelleyj@apsu.edu<\/a>, by phone at 931.575.1954, or visit the APSU ROTC program, located in the Memorial Health Building on the APSU campus. They can also go to www.goarmy.com\/rotc<\/a> or text \u201cROTCBONUS\u201d to 462769 on their smart device.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University\u2019s ROTC program is looking for the best and brightest college students in the country, and the U.S. Army is willing to pay a little extra for these qualified soldiers. Through the Army, Austin Peay\u2019s ROTC program is now offering a $5,000 bonus to college sophomores who complete the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,9438,6570,24017,262,31529,825,11820,9203,1234],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-6Cn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25444,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25443\/revisions\/25444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}