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       Source of Commission 	The USCG relies heavily on the U. S. Coast Guard Academy 
        for its officer accessions. The USCG gets more than 80 percent of its 
        new officers from its Academy and Officer Candidate School as compared 
        to less than half that (39 percent) for DoD as a whole, as shown in Table 
        7.6. This large difference can be at least partially explained by 
        the fact that the USCG does not have an ROTC program. The fact that an 
        even greater proportion of the USCG officer corps compared to USCG officer 
        accessions were academy graduates is an indication that the retention 
        rate for graduates is higher than for the other sources of officers.  | 
  
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