Option 1: Wait until you ETS, then contact a Reserve recruiter and tell them you're interested in commissioning.
Option 2: Apply for the Green to Gold Nonscholarship program. You can use the program to complete a 4 year degree, earn a Master's, or even earn another 4 year degree if you already possess one. If you get a move on, you can have everything completed and ready so that you can start school this fall. Let your ROTC cadre know that you want to commission into the Reserves. Complete school and earn your commission through ROTC. Serve out your commitment (6 years Reserve duty if you do SMP whilst in school).
There is also a direct commisioning process that Reserve soldiers can go through if they already have a degree or are nearing completion. Not to mention the ROTC scholarships that are offered to reserve soldiers.
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Posts: 293 | Location: Fort Riley, KS | Registered: 20 May 2004
Originally posted by tmayhem: Where is the non-scholarship application?
I don't see it on (http://www.goarmy.com/rotc/enlisted_soldiers.jsp#non)
Does anyone know the deadline?
For nonscholarship, you won't find the application on the goarmy.com website. If you supply an email addy, I can email you the packet.
The deadline is 8 weeks before the semester/quarter you would like to start. So, if you are looking to start school in August, you need to get your packet together and submitted ASAP. The nonscholarship option isn't really competitive like the other two options (active duty and scholarship). If you meet the basic requirements and can get your command to sign off on your packet, you're pretty much in.
Two things you need to do now while you wait for me to respond: 1. if you don't already have a Secret or higher security clearance, get one started and 2. get an appointment scheduled for your physical.
ROTC Reps and Gold Bars are in general exceptionally unaware of how Green to Gold works... If you were lucky enough to find a school with some experience with that you lucked out.
I am pretty sure the Green to Gold Non Scholarship isn't even so much an application process as it is an Administrative process under the Seperation reg...
Posts: 126 | Location: University of Iowa | Registered: 30 April 2007
What if you are almost complete with your degree (I just registered for my last three classes), can you still become a 2LT and get out of active duty and into the reserves?
tmayhem, Email has been sent. Good luck with everything.
35M3L00PF, If you're willing to go back to school and earn a Master's or another 4 year degree, yes, you can do G2G nonschol.
The info on the second 4 year degree was verified with ROTC headquarters in spring 2007. No info has been put out recently to say this is no longer the case, but if this is the route you choose, you should definitely check with them again to make sure you're good to go. When I was gathering info, I was told by several ROTC detachments that the 2nd bachelors degree option was not a possibility. ROTC HQ told me that not only was it an option, but that there are currently soldiers pursuing this path.
I don't really want to be an officer but if I'm wasting away with a worthless job here on Fort Huachuca and no one will let me deploy I might as well become an officer and get out of active duty.
I was just half-serious/interested. I can't do my job as an officer, there is no equivalent MOS.
