Goals

The NJROTC program goals are to provide an opportunity for secondary school students to learn about the basic elements and requirements for national security and their personal obligations as American citizens to contribute toward national security. The NJROTC has the following basic objectives:
 

 

a. Promote patriotism

b. Develop informed and responsible citizens

c. Promote habits of orderliness and precision, and develop respect for constituted authority

d. Develop a high degree of personal honor, self-reliance, individual discipline, and leadership

e. Promote an understanding of the basic elements and requirements for national security

f. Develop respect for and an understanding of the need for

constituted authority in a democratic society

g. Develop an interest in the military service as a possible career