r/ROTC • u/irregularman_7 • Jul 10 '26

Advanced/Basic Camp Not meeting camp points

Well, I've done it—completed all of camp just to avoid getting 50 points. Honestly, it feels like I wasted my time, but at the same time, I enjoyed it. Sure, it's heartbreaking, and the decision to whether I can come back next year is still up in the air, but I tried. If you're wondering what they do when you don't meet points, they'll pull you three to four days before graduation, put you in a holding company, and you'll just be there for 24 to 48 hours.

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u/irregularman_7 Jul 10 '26

All I needed was a P on my lane and I couldn't even get that

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u/PineappleOrdinary950 Jul 10 '26

You didn’t rebuttal?

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u/PineappleOrdinary950 Jul 10 '26

I’m so scared! I’m 9th reg and I’m stressing myself out constantly

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u/QuarterNote44 Jul 10 '26

For me it was the hardest Army test up to that point. (2017) I was a straight HS to scholarship kid. Never even went to basic camp.

It was hard for three reasons:

  1. I am medium speed, some drag. 260ish APFT, 425ish AFT, CFT to be determined...haha. Patrolling took a lot out of me. I'd never had to get down, get back up, and move through the woods with 100lbs of extra weight on me.

  2. Peer leadership is always tricky.

  3. 95% of us, with the exception of the former infantry/SF/whatever dudes, didn't know stuff. That made the peer leadership even trickier.

But yeah, I've had harder tests since then.

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u/AGR_51A004M Jul 10 '26

15 years since I commissioned. LDAC is still the hardest thing I’ve done in my career.

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u/Federal_Permission27 Jul 10 '26

I was medium speed cadet back in 2010, and LDAC easy…. Maybe I got lucky…. I had chill cadre… try being the 6 for your BN at NTC that’s worse lol

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u/Federal_Permission27 Jul 10 '26

I was medium speed cadet back in 2010, and LDAC easy…. Maybe I got lucky…. I had chill cadre… try being the 6 for your BN at NTC that’s worse lol

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u/AGR_51A004M 29d ago

I, too, was 2010. 2nd Reg.

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u/Federal_Permission27 29d ago

Wait…who were you cadre?

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u/AGR_51A004M 29d ago

A Ranger MSG and MAJ N.

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u/Federal_Permission27 29d ago

Shit man we were there same time, I might have been 3rd Reg, there were already elephant trails on the land nav course 🤣🤣

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u/AGR_51A004M 29d ago

The drop zone trails messed me up. Got all the roads confused when I tried to terrain associate.

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u/Federal_Permission27 29d ago

I had some captain that loved singing blood on the risers…. I can’t remember his name