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Members of the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps are assigned various ranks.
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Officer ranks
** Cadet Captain is the rank that the leader of a NJROTC unit will obtain if the unit has reached the cadet enrollment requirements to be rated as an Regiment; as of 06/2013, there were only 584 NJROTC units worldwide, but only 5 are known to have been rated as a Regiment.
*** Although the positions and titles of rank match those of the Armed Forces' pay grades, JROTC cadets are not serving members of the military, and receive no pay, and only receive benefits or privileges based upon the situation of the time (receiving salutes, giving orders, messing/bunking in Officers' Country and using base exchanges or commissaries while on training trips, etc.) This is in direct contrast to Cadets/Midshipmen of the Senior (University Level) ROTC programs, in which those students do receive pay/stipends, benefits,and privileges, depending upon their scholarship or enlistment status.
Rank Criteria
Rank requirements vary with schools. Some specialties require cadets to pass promotion tests while others only require recommendations by superiors and the needs of the unit.