page_title: Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps
section_title: Organization
hierarchical_section_title: Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps / Organization
caption_attribution_description: English: A map showing the different brigades of Army ROTC.
context_page_description: The Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps is the United States Army component of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. It is the largest Reserve Officer Training Corps program which is a group of college and university-based officer training programs for training commissioned officers for the United States Army and it's reserves components: the Army Reserves and the Army National Guard. There are 30,000+ Army ROTC cadets enrolled in 274 ROTC programs at major universities throughout the United States.
  These schools are categorized as Military Colleges, Military Junior Colleges and Civilian Colleges.
  The modern Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps was created by the National Defense Act of 1916. This program commissioned its first class of lieutenants in 1920. However, the concept behind ROTC had its roots in military training which began taking place in civilian colleges and universities as early as 1819 with the founding of the American Literary, Scientific and Military Academy at Norwich, Vermont, followed by various state-chartered military schools and finally civilian land grant colleges after the Civil War, which required military training.
context_section_description: ROTC is composed of eight brigades which command 273 ROTC units, referred to as battalions (though these units are typically much smaller than regular army battalions). The brigades command ROTC units throughout different regions of the country:
  1st Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade (responsible for 10 Senior Military Colleges and Military Junior Colleges)
  2nd Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade (CT, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, Germany, Italy)
  3rd Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade (IA, IL, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD, WI)
  4th Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade (DC, DE, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
  5th Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade (AR, AZ, CO, NM, OK, TX, UT, WY)
  6th Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade (AL, FL, GA, LA, MS, PR, VI)
  7th Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade (IN, KY, MI, OH, TN)
  8th Reserve Officers' Training Corps Brigade (AK, AS, CA, GU, HI, ID, MP, MT, NV, OR, WA, Korea, Japan)
caption: Map of the Army ROTC Brigades
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