Quote Originally Posted by Schmedlap View Post
Definitely agree there. I don't know anyone who decided to join ROTC while in college. It was a decision made concurrently - or before - the decision of which college to attend. College seems like a bit late in the game to be reaching the demographic.

If individuals are not drawn to military service, I think it tends to be so for reasons that have more to do with interests, values, and attitudes developed during their first 18 years of life and not likely to be influenced by on-campus recruiting.
I decided to join in college, and probably 25% of my commissioning class did. However, I didn't need a values adjust to do it.

That said, we had an outstanding program and some great cadre that really worked hard to bring people in.