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Source
of Commission
Each Reserve Component applies its own selection procedures for officer
candidates. Many officers who transfer from an Active Component already
possess at least a college degree. Officer candidates who do not have
a degree undergo rigorous selection procedures and must successfully complete
an officer candidate or training school. In FY 2000, approximately 24
percent of ARNG officer accessions, excluding a large number of unknown
source of commission data, received their commissions through the ARNG
Officer Candidate Schools (OCS) located in each state and territory. Just
under one-third of all ANG officer accessions were commissioned through
the ANG Academy of Military Sciences (AMS) and slightly less than half
of USARs officer accessions were commissioned through the Reserve Officers
Training Corps (ROTC; Table 6.5).
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Table
6.5. FY 2000 Source of Commission of Selected Reserve Officer
Accessions (Percent)
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Source
of Commission
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Army
National
Guard
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Army
Reserve
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Naval
Reserve
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USMC
Reserve
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Air
National
Guard
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Air
Force
Reserve
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DOD
Total
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Service Academy
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2.3
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5.3
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14.4
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5.9
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43.5
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18.9
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11.0
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ROTCScholarship
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6.3
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14.4
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20.2
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0.0
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6.0
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14.4
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12.4
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ROTCNo Scholarship
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11.8
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30.0
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3.6
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14.5
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15.0
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18.6
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18.8
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OCS/OTS/PLC
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0.9
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4.8
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20.0
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79.6
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10.0
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13.2
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13.0
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ANG AMS/ARNG
OCS
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9.4
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7.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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4.4
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Direct Appointment
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4.2
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19.0
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33.8
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0.0
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24.2
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34.0
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20.0
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Other
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4.6
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0.2
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5.9
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0.0
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1.3
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0.7
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2.1
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Unknown
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60.4
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19.3
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2.2
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0.0
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0.0
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0.0
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18.4
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Total
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100.0
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100.0
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100.0
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100.0
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100.0
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100.0
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100.0
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Columns may not add to total due to rounding.
Also see Appendix
Table C-33 (Officers by Source of Commission and Component).
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Table 6.5 shows the sources of commission that each
of the Reserve Components most frequently use. In the USNR and USAFR,
the largest source of commissions was through direct appointments. The
overwhelming majority of USMCR officer accessions (80 percent) obtained
their commissions through OCS or the Marine Corps Platoon Leader Class
(PLC). PLC is a split-training program in which candidates normally
attend officer training in the summers after their junior and senior
years of college. The Army components rely heavily on ROTC, primarily
without scholarships. For last fiscal year (1999), approximately 9 percent
of officer accessions were commissioned from other programs, primarily
through the aviation cadet and aviation training programs.[footnote
2] This number has decreased to 2 percent for FY 2000.
[footnote
2] For Reserve Component commissioned officer
accessions, "other" sources of commission are defined as: Merchant Marine
Academy, Aviation Cadet, and Aviation Training Program. [back
to paragraph]
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