April 22, 2022 Special Warfare AFROTC weekend provides hands-on career field exposure to cadets The first-ever Special Warfare Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Weekend, or SWAW, took place April 8-10, 2022, at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, for cadets to gain experience in and exposure to the selection process for the high-demand, low-density 19Z career fields.
June 7, 2021 Air Force ROTC takes over Camp Shelby for field training Air Force ROTC will train and evaluate nearly 3,500 ROTC cadets, or 1.5 times the traditional number, during an “extraordinary” version of field training this summer at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, Mississippi, from May through July.
Sept. 2, 2020 AFROTC expands Gold Bar Recruiter Program to increase diversity in officer corps Forty newly commissioned second lieutenants headed across the country to volunteer for the Gold Bar Recruiting Program after completing a two week course Aug. 18, 2020, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama.
Sept. 27, 2019 Air University’s “Godzilla” class graduates OTS Air University’s Officer Training School class 19-07 has run its course, boosting the number of Air Force commissioned officers by 651 after the graduation parade Sept. 27, 2019, in Montgomery, Alabama.
Dec. 20, 2018 OTS restructures program to increase quality, quantity of officers The Air Force’s Officer Training School is changing the paradigm for building officers, pivoting away from separate programs for line and non-line officers and conducting merged classes beginning in January 2019.