: ROTU, Malay: Pasukan Latihan Pegawai Simpanan – PALAPES) is a military programme that trains undergraduate students to be reserve officers for the Malaysian Armed Forces.
Those who complete the training will be commissioned as officers in the Malaysian Armed Forces Reserve, either as Second lieutenants in the Territorial Army Regiment (Malay: Rejimen Askar Wataniah) and the Royal Malaysian Air Force Volunteer Reserve (Malay: Pasukan Simpanan Sukarela Tentera Udara Diraja Malaysia), or as Acting Sub-lieutenants in the Royal Malaysian Navy Volunteer Reserve (Malay: Pasukan Simpanan Sukarela Tentera Laut Diraja Malaysia).
With this, the headquarters of the 1st University of Malaya Reserve Army Battalion will be shared with the 11th Infantry Division.
In the late 1980s, the Reserve Officer Training Unit was officially renamed the Pasukan Latihan Pegawai Simpanan, or PALAPES for short.
[5] In addition to regular Malaysian Armed Forces officers and other ranks, the ROTU is assisted by university lecturers or staff who were commissioned from ROTU during their learning days or are still active as reserve officers in any branch of the Malaysian Armed Forces.
[5] Before being commissioned as an officer, ROTU cadets must complete three phases of training, each lasting a year.
The minimum physical requirements for males under the MK LAT CPL/SIMP 500/3/5/6 are 162 centimetres (5.31 ft) for height, 47.5 kilograms (105 lb) for weight, and BMI does not exceed 26.9, while females are 157 centimetres (5.15 ft) for height, 45 kilograms (99 lb) for weight, and BMI does not exceed 26.9.
First-year students interested in joining ROTU must submit their names and wait for selection.
Students compete for ROTU slots because of the benefits that come with being selected as a cadet and being commissioned as a military reserve officer.
[14] Depending on the ROTU branch, cadets receive military training comparable to that of the regular army.
In the Army ROTU, for example, cadets must learn different types of weapons based on their stage.
[15] Cadets in the Navy ROTU are taught seamanship and how to operate a military ship as part of a crew.
For them to remain qualified as reserve military officers, they must complete at least 70% of the total annual training.
Those who have been inactive for a long time can reactivate their membership by reporting to the nearest reserve camp, but they must go through the process of retaking the fitness test and providing documentation.
The structure is based on KD Sultan Idris I, Malaysia's version of Britannia Royal Naval College.
The training that they should receive during the Junior Midshipman phase was divided into two parts and completed during the first and third years.
The pattern of their rank epaulette is similar to that of the Army, except instead of green, the Air Force's is dark blue with yellow stripes.
[21][7] date There is one Air Force ROTU unit at the Universiti Teknologi MARA, Sarawak Branch, which was established in June 2004 but was officially dissolved on 7 July 2013.