NAVAL RESERVE OFFICERS TRAINING CORPS.
The Chief of Naval Personnel annually conducts a competitive selection system
among the qualified service and civilian applicants for entry into the Regular
Program of the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps, (NROTC). Quotas are es
tablished yearly, depending upon the vacancies existing in the program, and a
certain percentage of these vacancies is allotted to enlisted personnel on
active duty in the Navy and Marine Corps.
Qualifications.
In addition to the general qualifications for Officer Candidate Training, the
following specific qualifications are required of service personnel.
a. The candidate shall have attained his seventeenth birthday, but shall not
have attained his twenty-first birthday on 1 July of the calendar year in which
he will enter the program. For service candidates the upper age limit may be
waived for candidates having previous college credit, provided the * candidate
will not have•attained his twenty-fifth birthday by 1 July of the calendar year^
in which he will complete 4 years of college. Since this advance standing in ™
the program is dependent upon the number of acceptable college credits earned,
and upon the credit which can be given in naval science, candidates desiring
a waiver of the upper age- limit must submit a college transcript appended to
the application. As a general guide, 30 semester hours (or 45 quarter hours)
of college credit are necessary for each year of age over 21. One year of
advanced standing may be given for satisfactory completion of the following
courses:
1. USAFI GED, College Level and '■ ' '
2. a. USAFI College Algebra Course ■
bc USAFI Subject Examination in College Algebra.
b. The candidate shall be on an enlistment or extension of an enlistment
which will not expire prior to 1 September of the year in which the candi
date will-.enter college.
c. The. candidate shall be a high school graduate, or possess the equivalent
educational background or high school certificate which is acceptable for
admission to an NROI'C college or university.
The candidate must meet the physical standards set forth for midshimen, United
States Navy, in the current Manual of the Medical Department, United. States
Navy. Waivers of physical defects will not be granted.
Each enlisted man of the Navy and Marine Corps who is nominated and qualifies
for the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (Regular) Program will be required
to take the Navy College Aptitude Test to determine his fitness for further
consideration in the program. -
For further information concerning the NROTC program contact MC CLUER, PN2 in
the Military Personnel Office, Ext. 315.