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Chapter 6:

Source of Commision

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. Just over one-quarter of all ANG officer accessions were commissioned through the ANG Academy of Military Sciences (AMS) and slightly less than half of USAR's officer accessions (43 percent) were commissioned through the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC).

Table 6.5. FY 2001 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
NA
NA
15.7
5.6
11.0
18.3
14.5
ROTC-Scholarship
NA
NA
20.7
0.0
4.7
16.0
14.6
ROTC-No Scholarship
NA
NA
3.9
14.2
11.7
19.6
10.6
OCS/OTS/PLC
NA
NA
19.0
77.6
11.9
11.5
23.0
ANG AMS/ARNG OCS
NA
NA
0.0
0.0
26.0
2.9
4.6
Direct Appointment
NA
NA
27.9
0.0
19.2
30.7
24.0
Other
NA
NA
4.3
0.0
15.4
1.1
4.6
Unknown
NA
NA
8.5
2.6
0.0
0.0
4.2
Total
NA
NA
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).

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 (78 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 (2000), approximately 2 percent of officer accessions were commissioned from other programs, primarily through the aviation cadet and aviation training programs.[Footnote 2] This number has increased to 17 percent for FY 2001, primarily a result of the large proportion of ARNG officer candidates accessed through these alternate programs in FY 2001.

[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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