ROTC admiral dad says rotsey.

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Anonymous wrote:Husband was ROTC at Georgetown (GW actually as GT didn’t have its own program). Calls it Rotsy.

+1 from NY, would normally say the letters. Went to Georgetown and had friends in the program. All called it Rotsy.

Had three ROTC friends in college. They all called it "rotsy."

Commissioned from Army ROTC - spell the letters

Also from CA, and a Military family. We always say each letter. Have never heard anyone say rotsy.

Anonymous wrote:My military bros used to pronounce it as ROTK. like "rot-ke" . Apparently the only true hardcore military way to say it.

So very American. Can't fight but must sound cool. LOL.

I was today years old when I learned people said rotsy and not ROTC.

Growing up in Southern California, we always spelled out the letters at our ROTC in my high school.

Only when I went to college on the East Coast, did i hear referred to as “Rotsy.”

It varies by region.

I have heard it both ways. My Navy husband did ROTC and says each letter individually. I do think that I have heard more army people call it "rotsy"

Spell the letters.

I worked at a university that had "regular" (army) ROTC, along with Navy and Air Force ROTC. I always heard people call the regular army one Rotsy but the others were spelled out N-R-O-T-C and A-F-R-O-T-C

I grew up in Md in a county that owed its prosperity to the local navy base. We always spelled it. I had no idea what people were talking about when I first heard it pronounced as a word.

My dad did ROTC in undergraduate and was drafted for Korea. He says rotsy.