While walking around campus, many of you guys must notice how there are some people always walking around in military uniforms. Who are they? Which uniform is which? Can they be sent out to war at any time? Which people are officers? These are all pretty common questions when it comes to ROTC. Aside from these questions, many people also don’t understand why we do all the things we do and who we really are. Although it is only my 1st year involved in Navy ROTC and I am certainly not a professional, I have a strong passion for the program and I love being involved within it.Therefore, for this semester’s passion blog I am planning to talk about and try to give the class a basic understanding of what Navy ROTC is. To provide this basic understanding I plan to describe what us “Midshipmen” do on a weekly basis, possibly talk about what our expectations are, and most importantly what we can do when we graduate.I am planning to focus on what we do when we graduate because this is the most important part of the Navy. We have 4 years here at Penn State to decide what we are interested in and then after that we commission into a specific type of restricted warfare (I’ll describe what that means later). That is going to be our job for the next 5-8 years so we must truly have a passion for that type of work and be interested in how it affects the United States Navy as a whole. I am extremely passionate about the Navy and am excited to commission in 4 years. I hope to give you guys a better understanding of not only who I am but describe how NROTC plays a role in my life now, and what it will look like in the future.