<p>How does the summer training for ROTC midshipmen at a typical civilian school (ie not a military school such as VMI) vary from USNA midshipmen? Does one get more opportunities?</p>
<p>Well, it is usually one 2-3 week block for ROTC, where as at a service academy, it's the whole summer except maybe for 3 weeks leave. At USNA, most midshipmen do 3 separate 3-week training blocks. Then again, at civilian college, you get to spend more time doing other than military stuff....</p>
<p>USNA and ROTC mids go on cruise together. The difference is when they do certain cruises. ROTC mids don't do the CSNTS (sailing) cruise after freshman year....I don't think we do it at all. We go straight to CORTRAMID (I believe it's called PROTRAMID at USNA) where we spend a week with the Marines, a week with surface, then subs, then aviation.</p>
<p>After sophomore year, ROTC mids usually do a surface or sub cruise for a month or so for the 2/C cruise. The 1/C cruise is more specific to what you want to do in the fleet. You can do an aviation cruise (at sea or land based), sub, surface, or surface nuke. Unfortunately, the Mini-BUD/S program has been cut so NAB can get more classes through in the summer. :(</p>
<p>To sum it up:</p>
<p>ROTC:
3/C: CORTRAMID
2/C: Sub/Surface
1/C: Air/Surface/Sub</p>
<p>USNA:
3/C: CSNTS
2/C: PROTRAMID
1/C: Air/Sub/Surface</p>
<p>PROTRAMID and CORTRAMID are essentially the same cruise. USNA and ROTC mids are grouped together with no distiction. By the looks of it, it seems ROTC mids get more exposure to the fleet than USNA.</p>