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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. Forty-one percent of Army Reserve officer accessions were commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC). Over a quarter of USNR officer accessions were also commissioned through ROTC.

Table 6.5 shows the sources of commission that each of the Reserve Components most frequently use. The USAR, USNR and USAFR use direct appointment as a source of commission more than the other Components. In fact, the USNR and USAFR use direct appointment as their lar gest source of commissions. The overwhelming majority of USMCR officer accessions (73 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, and the ANG uses other programs as their main source of commission.[Footnote 2]

Table 6.5. FY 2002 Source of Commission of Selected Reserve Officer Accessions (Percent)
Source of Commission
Army National Guard*
Army Reserve*
Naval Reserve
USMC Reserve
Air National Guard
Air Force Reserve
DOD Total
Service Academy
1.7
4.4
15.9
6.0
9.7
15.1
7.8
ROTC-Scholarship
2.7
14.9
22.8
0.0
6.8
13.0
12.3
ROTC-No Scholarship
7.0
26.1
4.0
14.1
12.9
15.0
15.0
OCS/OTS/PLC
0.2
4.2
16.9
73.3
9.3
19.5
11.4
ANG AMS/ARNG OCS
3.2
6.7
0.0
0.0
8.9
3.2
4.2
Direct Appointment
3.3
22.7
27.1
0.0
14.9
30.1
18.7
Other1
81.6
1.3
4.6
0.0
37.6
4.2
21.7
Unknown
0.3
19.6
8.7
6.6
0.0
0.0
9.0
Total
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0
100.0

Columns may not add to total due to rounding.
* Due to data issues, accurate source of commission data are not available for the Army components.
Also see Appendix Table C-33 (Officers by Source of Commission and Component).
1 All ARNG officers receive their commission from one of the sources listed here. The reason the majority of ARNG officer accessions are listed as “Other,” however is because the majority of ARNG officer accessions are prior service and commission source is not transferred in the personnel data system.

[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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