Air Force ROTC at University of Hawaii at Manoa

Yes — University of Hawaii at Manoa hosts Air Force ROTC on campus through Detachment 175 University of Hawaii at Manoa. Students from 7 partner schools also join it cross-town.

Detachment 175 University of Hawaii at Manoa is the host unit, based at University of Hawaii at Manoa. Students at 7 partner schools join it cross-town and train at University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Detachment 175 University of Hawaii at Manoa is hosted at University of Hawaii at Manoa in Honolulu, Hawaii. The detachment's training events, classes, and PT all run on the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus.

In addition to University of Hawaii at Manoa, students enrolled at Hawaii Pacific University, Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Chaminade University of Honolulu, and Honolulu Community College can contract through Detachment 175 University of Hawaii at Manoa via cross-town agreements. Cross-town cadets keep their primary academics at the partner school and travel to the host for ROTC-side coursework.

AFROTC cadets at this detachment compete for AFROTC HSSP Type 1 (full tuition), AFROTC HSSP Type 2 ($18k cap), AFROTC HSSP Type 7 (in-state), ICSP (in-college). National awards apply out of high school; on-campus side-loads kick in once a cadet is enrolled and contracted.

Between sophomore and junior year, cadets compete for slots at AFROTC Field Training at Maxwell AFB — the gate that converts a GMC cadet into a POC contracted cadet.

Public corps-size figures aren't always published year-to-year; AFROTC detachments in this size class generally carry between several dozen and a few hundred contracted cadets depending on host enrollment.

Yes. Detachment 175 University of Hawaii at Manoa takes cross-town and partner students from 7 other schools, including Chaminade University of Honolulu, Kapiolani Community College, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu Community College. See the cross-town section above for distances and how to enroll.