The books

The Insider's Guide to ROTC scholarships.

The method in depth, branch by branch, with lessons drawn from direct experience. Written by the founder, LTC Kirkland, from years on scholarship boards and at the front of the ROTC classroom.

3 volumes · Army · Navy and Marine Corps · Air Force · sold on Amazon

Cover of Insider's Guide to the Army ROTC Scholarship by Robert Kirkland

Volume · Army

Winning the Army ROTC Scholarship

For the family starting an Army ROTC application: the scholarship, the board, and the interview, explained from the inside.

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Cover of Insider's Guide to the Navy and Marine Corps ROTC Scholarship by Robert Kirkland

Volume · Navy & Marine Corps

Winning the Navy ROTC Scholarship

For the NROTC applicant: the most selective board, with its own essay, letters, and timing rhythm.

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Cover of Insider's Guide to the Air Force ROTC Scholarship by Robert Kirkland

Volume · Air Force

Winning the Air Force ROTC Scholarship

For the AFROTC applicant: how the board process actually works, and how prepared students set themselves apart.

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LTC Robert Kirkland, U.S. Army, Retired, founder of ROTC Consulting and author of the Insider's Guide series — LTC Robert Kirkland (U.S. Army, Ret.) · Founder

The author

What he saw on the boards, written down.

LTC Kirkland is a West Point graduate, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, and a former professor of military science. He has sat where the deciding happens, on scholarship boards and at the head of an ROTC battalion's classroom.

The Insider's Guide series distills that vantage point into print: what boards reward, what an application signals, and where strong students quietly lose ground.

He leads every ROTC Scholarship Blueprint personally.

Army ROTC cadets in uniform walking across a college campus between classes — The scholarship is won during the high school year, long before any board convenes.

Books, then coaching

The books teach the system. The Blueprint reads your student against it.

Every volume explains what the boards reward and why. What a book cannot do is weigh one student's record honestly and name what must improve before the application window opens. That is the work of the ROTC Scholarship Blueprint: 1 hour with the author, about your student.

After the last chapter

You have read how the scholarship is won. Now learn where your student stands.

One hour with LTC Kirkland. The author of the series reads your student's record against the system he wrote down.

Schedule your ROTC Scholarship Blueprint.

$400 · 60 min · LTC Kirkland · credited toward Interview Preparation or The Scholarship Track