I was getting paid for my monthly reserve drills and as a third and fourth year cadet. Believe me, it wasn’t much money. That and a job helped me pay my way through college.
So a soldier can be in ROTC, but ROTC has nothing to do with being a soldier, it doesn’t make one a soldier, nor is it part of his military command, nor pay, nor time in service?
It is something that he is doing on his own and on his own time, but with an obligation to active duty after it is over?