Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) Selection Board Announcement
This MARADMIN announces the FY24 Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) selection board for Professor of Naval Science (PNS), Executive Officer (XO), and Marine Officer Instructor (MOI) positions. Applications are due by 12 September 2023, with the board convening in October 2023 and results released between October and December 2023. Eligible unrestricted officers must meet specific grade, timing, academic (minimum 3.0 GPA), and physical fitness requirements to apply for these mentorship and training positions at various universities nationwide.
Issued: August 18, 2023
1. This message announces the eligibility criteria for Marines desiring to apply for NROTC Professor of Naval Science (PNS), Executive Officer (XO), and Marine Officer Instructor (MOI) duty, and the timeline for selection board execution.<br> 1.a. Major timeline milestones are below:<br> Date Milestone<br> 12 September 2023 NROTC application submitted <br> 12 October 2023 FY24 NROTC board convenes<br> 30 October 2023 FY24 NROTC PNS/XO results released<br> 01 December 2023 FY24 NROTC MOI results released<br> 1.a.1. Eligible officers must complete all package application requirements by 2359 eastern time (ET) on 12 September 2023.<br> 2. Background<br> 2.a. NROTC units are an essential component in the training of prospective naval officers. Officers serving at NROTC units mentor, develop, and shape the future officer corps and will therefore be of the highest caliber. Officers aspiring to serve on NROTC duty must possess superlative leadership and academic qualities, be of sound moral character, and demonstrate superior physical fitness.<br> 2.b. Officers serving as an XO or MOI regularly support and augment summer training at Officer Candidates School, and other seasonal training programs such as new student indoctrination, or career orientation and training for Midshipmen.<br> 3. Eligibility. NROTC positions are open to all unrestricted officers that meet the following criteria:<br> 3.a. Grade. Officers must meet the grade criterion (or be a select for promotion to that grade) of the associated duty for which they are applying. Paragraph 5 lists available billets with the required grade.<br> 3.a.1. Officers applying for MOI or XO must possess the career timing to serve a full tour of duty (36 months) as a pinned captain or major, respectively. Requests for exceptions will not normally receive favorable consideration.<br> 3.b. Applicants must be a FY24 mover based upon current prescribed tour length.<br> 3.b.1. Manpower Management Officer Assignments (MMOA) will normally not consider officers scheduled to complete their prescribed tour length in FY25 or beyond.<br> 3.b.2. Officers may request via Administrative Action (AA) form to screen if they are scheduled to complete their prescribed tour length in FY25. The first O5 in the chain of command must endorse the request and therein acknowledge a potential extended gap in staffing should the requesting officer be selected for NROTC duty.<br> 3.b.3. Officers currently serving in their first tour will be afforded the opportunity to screen for NROTC duty when they are eligible to compete for promotion to captain and career designation.<br> 3.c. Academics. Minimum requirement is a bachelor's degree with a 3.0 undergraduate Grade Point Average (GPA). Select schools waive this requirement to 2.5 if the applicant's record is otherwise outstanding. Select billets require a master's degree. Paragraph 5 lists this as Note 1.<br> 3.d. Physical fitness. High first class PFT and CFT recommended.<br> 3.e. Officers who are not yet career designated, but will screen for career designation by the FY24 Career Designation Panel #1 in spring 2024 may apply.<br> 3.e.1. Per reference (b), as authorized by the Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, officers selected for MOI duty will be offered career designation in conjunction with their selection to that duty.<br> 3.e.2. Selected officers who failed selection for career designation, or are selected for career designation and decline, will nullify their MOI selection and execute their End of Active Service (EAS).<br> 3.e.3. MMOA makes every effort to match selected officers with their preferences. However, by volunteering and applying for NROTC duty, officers agree to be assigned to any available NROTC billet. All requests to decline selection after the release of the selection Marine Administrative (MARADMIN) message must be made via naval letter format with O6 command endorsement. MMOA will consider all requests in the context of the needs of the Marine Corps for approval or disapproval. Requests for declination by officers who volunteered and were selected for NROTC duty will not normally receive favorable consideration. There is no deferral of PNS/XO/MOI selection.<br> 4. Officers interested in NROTC duty who meet the above eligibility criteria must submit the documents listed below as part of their package to MMOA-3 no later than 2359 ET on 12 September 2023 to the following organization address: SMBMMOAPLANSO@USMC.MIL.<br> 4.a. Electronic packages must be submitted in a single portable document format (i.e. '.pdf'.) file with the following naming convention: "EDIPI_LASTNAME_FY24NROTC.pdf". <br> 4.b. The applications must include:<br> 4.b.1. Personal statement. Submit this letter in standard naval letter format from the Marine to MMOA-3. This is the officer's opportunity to express in writing their desire to serve on NROTC duty, elaborate on relevant personal strengths and experiences, and submit duty station preferences. Applicants must include a prioritized list in preference order of all billets for which they are eligible, using the list in paragraph (5). In the event that MMOA changes the list of available billets by updating the webpage in paragraph (5.a.) after the point at which an officer has submitted his or her package, the officer may submit an updated personal statement with revised billet preferences, but this is not required. Applicants are encouraged to submit personal statements of 3 pages or less.<br> 4.b.2. Command endorsement in standard naval letter format from the immediate chain of command, battalion/squadron commander or equivalent, for officers applying for MOI or XO.<br> 4.b.3. One letter of recommendation.<br> 4.b.4. Official college transcripts. Official college transcripts are to be sent directly from the university or officer to Manpower Mangement Records and Performance-20 (SMB.MANPOWER.MMRP-20@USMC.MIL) to be included in the officer's Official Military Personnel File (OMPF). If legible college transcripts are already included in the officer's OMPF, a duplicate submission is not required.5<br> 5. Billet vacancies<br> 5.a. Below is the list of billets available at the time of publication. The list may change due to unforeseen circumstances and MMOA will post a current list on the NROTC Selection Panel webpage at https:(slash)(slash)www.manpower.usmc.mil/webcenter/portal/MMOA3_BUI/pages_fy13569587.<br> 5.b. NROTC Professor of Naval Science (PNS) vacancies (read in five columns):<br> University Location MCC Rank Note<br> Univ of California Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA H06 Col 1,3<br> Villanova University Philadelphia, PA H93 Col 1,3<br> Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VA H87 Col<br> 5.c. NROTC Executive Officer (XO) vacancies (read in five columns):<br> University Location MCC Rank Note<br> Cornell University Ithaca, NY H12 Maj 1<br> Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA H05 Maj 1<br> Prairie View A&M Prairie View, TX H69 Maj 1,3<br> University of Utah Salt Lake City, UT H91 Maj 1<br> 5.d. NROTC Marine Officer Instructor (MOI) vacancies (read in five columns):<br> University Location MCC Rank Note<br> The Citadel Charleston, SC H07 Capt<br> Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ Daytona Beach, FL HAD Capt<br> University of Idaho Moscow, ID H24 Capt<br> Jacksonville University Jacksonville, FL H31 Capt 2<br> Univ Of Memphis Memphis, TN H65 Capt 2,3<br> Univ Of Mississippi Oxford, MS H46 Capt 2,3<br> Norwich University Northfield, VT H57 Capt<br> University of Oklahoma Norman, OK H62 Capt<br> Oregon State University Corvallis, OR H64 Capt<br> Prairie View A&M Prairie View, TX H69 Capt 3<br> University Of Rochester Rochester, NY H78 Capt<br> Rutgers University Camden, NJ H97 Capt<br> San Diego State University San Diego, CA H83 Capt 3<br> Univ of Southern California Los Angeles, CA H82 Capt 3<br> Univ of South Carolina Columbia, SC H80 Capt<br> Texas A&M University College Station, TX H89 Capt<br> University of Texas Austin, TX H86 Capt 2<br> University Of Virginia Charlottesville, VA H94 Capt<br> Virginia Military Institute Lexington, VA H87 Capt<br> Yale University New Haven, CT HC6 Capt<br> Note 1: Master's degree required. If applicant does not possess a graduate degree, an enrollment, or an accepted status, into a graduate degree program is required.<br> Note 2: Waives GPA requirement to 2.5.<br> Note 3: This university is associated with a consortium. Local travel will be required between the university locations.<br> 6. All interested officers must receive approval to apply from their PMOS monitors and include that correspondence in their application package submission.<br> 7. MMOA will release separate selection MARADMINs upon conclusion of the board. MMOA will publish the results for PNS and XO billets immediately following the conclusion of the board. MMOA will publish the results for MOI billets in December to ensure maximum deconfliction with other non-statutory boards and panels. MMOA may not issue permanent change of station orders until they receive approval by the NROTC units or universities of selected officers.<br> 8. This message is not applicable to the Marine Corps Reserve.<br> 9. Release authorized by BGen Ryan S. Rideout, Director, Manpower Management Division.