<p>Hopefully to put this to rest once and for all - there is no "reserve" commission for NROTC grads. They get the same active duty Ensign commission as an Academy grad. No difference at all.</p>
<p>From the NROTC website:</p>
<p>All NROTC scholarship students incur an active duty service obligation of at least 4 years in the United States Navy or Marine Corps. Depending on the career path chosen, the service obligation may be longer. All NROTC students also incur an obligation to the Naval Reserve for a minimum of 8 years, but any time served on active duty counts towards the reserve commitment also. (For example, an individual who serves 5 years on active duty would have 3 years remaining towards their Naval Reserve commitment.) Members have the option of serving in either the Inactive Ready Reserve (IRR) or the Standby Reserve (i.e., drilling reserves).</p>
<p>The minimum active duty service obligations for each community are listed below:</p>
<p>Surface Warfare: 4 years
Special Warfare: 4 years
Nurse Corps: 4 years
Marine Corps: 4 years
Submarine Warfare: 5 years
Aviation: 6, 7, or 8 years (for NFO, helicopter pilot, and fixed wing, respectively)
NOTE: Aviation commitment begins AFTER the individual completes Naval Flight School, which typically takes 2 years</p>
<p>Ditto to this. Same commission as Naval Academy.</p>
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<p>I don't know how it worked for MiPerson, but I had two friends in college 25 years ago who did Air Force and Navy ROTC. They were both at the same status as somebody graduating from the Air Force and Naval Academies. They also both were career officers and stayed in for 20 years. Neither was technical in their college majors, then.</p>
<p>In my son's unit, they accepted more than 25 students for ROTC (3 schools at this battallion), a mix of both Navy and Marine options. About 85% were on scholarship as freshmen. A few didn't get a scholarship as a freshman, but after a year, many of these students qualified. </p>
<p>Obviously, it is different at each school in terms of what they want and need. Out of the 25 kids in ROTC, only 2 are still engineering (son and his roomie from last year) - many have changed to less technical majors.</p>
<p>The Department of Defense offered to pay for intensive language training (8 units) in Arabic, Farsi and Russian - during the summer, before Cortramid training. Most everyone who wanted to take the opportunity in son's battallion were able to. They will do the same next summer for the next level. </p>
<p>There are many opportunities to fund your education through this program, but if you aren't into the mindset of military, don't do it just because of the tuition benefits. It is rigorous and takes up a great deal of time. For my son, he likes it - lives and breathes the military - but if he were a different type of person, it might be too much for him.</p>
<p>There are people who drop the program. Now, the students must sign papers first day of the sophomore year. If they drop out after that, they may be required to pay back the benefits - in either cash or service pay back options.</p>
<p>Non-scholarship ROTC students used to get reserve commissions (they were still active duty). They could augment to a regular commission after 4 years or so, about they time they picked up LT/CPT. Scholarship and academy students got regular commissions from the get go. Operationally, there was no difference between reserve and regular commissions, but you had to augment to stay in the service. With a reserve commission, you still had to fulfill your obligation, ie time in service after winging, etc., same as the regular commissioned officers.</p>
<p>Yes, this is correct from "cap", NROTC and Academy grads get "regular" commissions. But also, (when I was in 25 years ago), when new reserve LT;s go throught the Basic School (the first 5 months once your have been commissioned), I believe the top 10% can get a regular commission.When I was in (during peacteime), it was not easy to get augmented to a regular commision, from a reserve commision.</p>
<p>But for all the Mom's commenting here, don't worry about this, if your son has a scholarship, he gets a regular commission.</p>
<p>My son is also only a sophmore and wants to be the marines after graduating college. He does not need a scholarship, we have savings for him. Does he still have to commit to the marines in his junior year if he is not on scholarship. can he be in nrotc without a scholarship?</p>
<p>i am 16 and i know i am joining the marine corps but i really would like to be an officer i have read all of this but do not know the first thing haha could u tell me how the NROTC scholarship works my 2 options i want to try is university of washington and university of idaho</p>
<p>USMC, please start your own thread using the button at the top of the main page. People will start replying to the original poster of 5 years ago.</p>
<p>i don’t know how i just started my profile i look and couldn’t find it</p>
<p>Silver button, it says CC New Thread, just above the forum thread listing.</p>
<p>Hey guys im a senior and i applied for the marine scholarship in the summer.
my stats are as follows</p>
<p>276 pft score. 18 pull ups. 86 sit ups. 17:45 run
Captain of JV lacrosse team, Cpt of Varsity cross country and wresling teams.
7 varsity letters
4 years of wrestling, xc, and lacrosse
3.8 weighted gpa
3.5 unweighted
1200 sat but i took them again and the results are pending
Elected to the leadership commitee
Im an active member in “student ambassadors”
I aslo volunteered two summers as a farmhand at a local historical farm where G.Washington stayed during the battle of germantown.</p>
<p>Just wanna know what you think my odds are.</p>