iif ur in the MCJROTC nobody makes fun of u cause them uniforms are really cool but the kids in my skewl they try to act stupid by saluting us all retarted

No one in my school says anything, and I'm in the middle of New York City, home of the retards. If anything, we get respected more than others. I dont get why all of you seem to have problems.

My high school is a lot better than my middle school days. The only part that sucks is our school is in the same building as a middle school. The only difference, these middle school kids josh me more, a lot more. But they're smart enough to physically leave the quiet guy alone. Only one kid tried to take me on. I laughed my a** off. He wasn't much over four feet and maybe 90 or so pounds. I thanked him for curing my acid reflux disease. I told him to come back in a few years when he is taller and his weight has doubled.

Yea we had our recruiting on the 11 of february and no one, except for a few people i know joked around. Way big of a difference compared to Junior High

I have noticed lately that people have stoped poking fun at me, or talking behind my back with the usual I hate the military type stuff...don't they know I can hear them?!....anyways, I think it's 1) age- I now look like I could be in the military (maybe b/c I could be lol) 2) as you get higher in the program you get "the look"..you know, like those NCOs and officers that strike fear into everyone they look at with out trying. And 3) I hang out with Army Coronels and Marine Captains It also helps that in the area I live theres more people that are suportive of the military now then there used to be.

Oh and you have to like the little kids who come up to you asking if you are in the army, or which plane you fly... one of them even asked for my autograpah *so cute!*

Ok, my girly side is coming out today, I think it's b/c I haven't been to a sq meeting in 2 weeks....

One thing I've found is that a lot of people in my school have been seriously impressed by a lot of the cadets since they've been in the program. On uniform days, you can just see the change in a lot of people. They stand straighter and walk with pride. Not once have a heard anybody making fun of a cadet because of the uniform or because they're in Army JROTC.

Besides, getting military discounts from idiot store clerks is fun.

I think people stop because of age. My older classmates call me "Army" all the time, but when I showed up in Uniform for recruiting NONE of them said a word

My MC corps of cadets are often called ROTC (pronounced rot-zee) Nazi's.
Our Drill team is now even being known as the young hitler march group. I hate it but we are not allowed to do much about it. It doesnt bother me much any more, I just figure that they are too chicken to actually try ROTC them selves.

We get called rotc nazi's too, except on uniform days when we all walk around the schoo ltogether everyone gives this look of awe and surprised that we're actually in it and are good at it. We had a drill meet a few weeks ago and when we went back to school the next day a lot of the students and teachers said how proud they were of us for cleaning up at competion. But we do have a few guys around that salute us all stupid and tell us to go "play war"

Thats great that your school gives you moral support. Some of the teachers do the same for us, but some actually agree with the ROTC Nazi name!