ROTC

• Gender


  The common qualities that serves as the foundation for status differences. This is a social construct that outlines the roles that men and women are expected to play in society and culture.
• Sex


  A category of analysis, sex uses only biological traits to differentiate between males and females.
• Sexuality


  Your sexual thoughts, feelings, and behaviors toward other people are all part of your sexuality. It is all part of your sexuality to find other people physically, sexually, or emotionally attractive. Your sexuality is unique, individualized, and a significant aspect of who you are.
• Sex Roles


  Refer to an occupation or biological function for which a necessary qualification is to belong to one particular sex category; e.g., breastfeeding, pregnancy, sperm donation.
• Gender Roles


  Are learned behaviors in a given society, community, or other special group that condition us to perceive certain activities, task and responsibilities as male and female, e.g., before nurses are only for women and security guards are men.
• Social Learning Development Theory


  • Proponents contend that parents, who distribute reinforcement, encourage behavior that conforms to gender norms.
• Cognitive-Developmental Theory


  • Kohlberg's theories regarding gender development are the source of this. Gender-appropriate behavior is something children start to acquire.
• Gender Schema Theory


  • Helps a child to develop gender identity and formulate an appropriate gender role.
• Schema


  Mental models that categorize incoming information according on a person's gender and subsequently influence how that person views the world.
• Gender Stereotyping


  The act of giving a specific set of traits, qualities, or roles to a particular woman or man just because they belong to the same social group as other women or men.
• Traditional Gender Ideology


  The need of separate roles for men and women is emphasized by traditional gender philosophies, where men fulfill their family responsibilities by providing for their families financially and women fulfill their obligations by taking care of the home and raising children. Social conceptions that justify gender inequity are often referred to as gender ideologies.
• Egalitarian Gender Ideology


  Equal rights, roles, and obligations for men and women are advocated by gender egalitarianism. It refutes the notions of "men's work" and "women's work," as well as gender-specific responsibilities in the home and workplace.
• Transitional Gender Theory


  The idea that a woman can divide her power equally between work and home but should eventually focus more on her home and a male can do the same but should focus more on his work is supported by transitional gender theory.
• Gender & Equality - Individuals' rights, obligations, and opportunities are independent of their gender, ability, age, race, or location—rural or urban, white or black, young or old, disabled or able bodied. Women have a right to a life of respect, security, and safety.
• Gender & Education


  The term "gender and education" describes how gender (the social, cultural, and behavioral characteristics that come with being male or female) and education (the process of learning new information, abilities, beliefs, and attitudes) overlap. It includes the investigation of how educational institutions, methods, and results both influence and are influenced by gender roles, expectations, and stereotypes.
• Personality Development


  Is a lifelong process. It is a way for people to assess their skills and qualities, consider their aims in life and set goals in order to realize and maximize their potential.
• Hierarchy of Needs


  • Physiological needs
  • Safety and security
  • Love and Belongingness
  • Esteem Needs
  • Cognitive Needs
  • Aesthetic Needs
  • Self-Actualization
• New Year's Call on the Commanding Officer - It has been an invariable custom throughout the AFP that officers make a formal call upon their Commander during New Year's Day.
• Call of Newly Promoted Generals/Flag Officers - Officers promoted to star ranks call on the Major Service Commander, Chief of Staff, AFP and the Secretary of National Defense after taking their oath of office before the Commander-in-Chief.
• Happy Hour


  This is a special form of unit officer comradeship which had been developing and spreading in recent years. When this is directed, officers gather at their local club for a beer and conversation. Usually held on Fridays, the growing customs call for a light-hearted dieting about the events of the week, or airing a minor gripe, and blowing off a little steam, it may also be a time to slip in a judicious request for a pass or event to inquire about taking a leave.
• Military Weddings - These customs are generally the same for all faiths. They vary only as chaplains of the different churches incorporate other procedures to add to their color and tone.
• Patronage of the Officer's Club and EP's Club Houses - This custom enables officers and EP to spend their off-duty social and recreational life in said centers.
• Rank Has Its Privileges


  Whenever a choice is to be made, such as the selection of billets or quarters or electing means of transportation, the option of the section follows rank, with the senior given the privilege to select first.
• Visiting the Sick - Military personnel who is sick in the hospital is visited by available officers and enlisted personnel of the unit in such number as may be permitted by the doctor or surgeon in charge. An officer or soldier of his unit visits him in order that his needs are attended to.
• Survivor Assistance to Bereaved Family - When any member of a unit dies, an officer is immediately designated by the commanding officer to render every possible assistance to the bereaved family. A similar courtesy may be tendered, if desired, in the case of a death of a member of any personnel's family.
• Code of Ethics


  Any system of rules and regulations defining the conduct governing a particular class of human actions or a particular group.
• Military Traditions


  • Traditions of Valor
  • Tradition of Duty
  • Tradition of Honor
  • Tradition of Solidarity
  • Tradition of Loyalty
• AFP Core Values


  • Honor
  • Loyalty
  • Valor
  • Duty
  • Solidarity
• Followership


  The process in which subordinates recognize their responsibility to comply with orders of leaders and take appropriate action.
• Ten Rules of Good Followership

  • Do not blame the boss
  • Do not fight the boss
  • Use initiative
  • Accept responsibility
  • Tell the truth and do not quibble
  • Do your homework
  • Suggest implementation
  • Keep the boss informed
  • Fix problems as they occur
  • Put in an honest day's work
• Military History


  A humanities discipline within the scope of general historical recording of armed conflict in the history of humanity, and its impact on the societies, cultures and economies thereof, as well as the resulting changes to local and international relationships.
• A Short History of War is a primer of military history that stresses the major developments in weaponry and warfare within an historical framework that is compact.
• Early Armies


  • Roman Army
  • Crusaders Army
  • Napoleonic - Grande Armèe, French Imperial Army
• Correspondence


  A written communication which conveys information and ideas to the reader or addressee. In this process, rapport is established between the writer and the reader.
• Military Correspondence


  A military communication that concerns almost every subject composed mostly of letters, endorsements and messages.
• Characteristics of Correspondence


  • Accuracy
  • Brevity
  • Clarity
  • Dignity
• Means of Communications


  • Personal contact or through telecommunications, electronic mail, SMS, MMS & facsimile, digital and social communications
  • Official written communication is more preferable than electronic means such as STLs, SDFs, DF
• Accuracy


  • Information cited in a letter must be factual. The sincerity of the purpose is based on the statement of true facts.
• Brevity


  • Letter must be brief, (kept short as possible but must contain important details prepared in logical order) leaving no doubt/question for the mind to imagine.
• Clarity


  • Denotes easy understanding, the words are simple and common to the reader. Lengthy correspondence confuses and makes the writer, as well as the reader, to lose track of the substance of the letter. At times, it is too short or telegraphic that the idea being conveyed is not well understood.