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Attending one college but NROTC at another

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paikea

paikea

Eight-year-olds, Dude.
I've made a few changes and decisions in my plans for college, and I decided to attend a local university (SFSU). They don't offer an NROTC program, but when I searched their site it brought up an address and number to another nearby university (Berkeley). I've heard this before, but I wanted to know if it's possible to attend one college but go to NROTC at another. Does anyone have any useful information?

Thanks

EDIT: Is it also possible to request where you are stationed later on in the Navy? What would be the possibilties of actually getting the request?
 
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I know that schools that do no offer NORTC, often have a cross town affliliate. What this means is that while you are enrolled in one school, you partake in the NROTC unit of a nearby school. We had a few at our school do that ( University of Colorado). I do know that the guys who did it, usually had a harder time in dealing with some of the ROTC committments as their school's schedule did not always agree with the ROTC demands.
Another thing about the program is that it must be an approved school with a cross town affiliate. You cannot just pick a college and then show up at a random ROTC unit. Make sure you call the neighboring school's NROTC unit and ask to speak to their recruiting officer. He should be able to answer all of your questions.

As far as requesting your duty station. I can tell you about how the aviation side of the house works. When you finish flight school, you are ranked out based on your grades. You put in a wish list of what community (for helos as an example, HSL, HS, HC, or HM) you want along with what duty station you prefer. You rank out all of the choices and turn in the card. The navy the does some vodoo magic (quality spread) #1 usually get's their first choice, then they hand out assigments based on the needs of the navy. If the needs, match the requested, usually the navy will try to accomodate you. That being said, if you want San Diego, but the week you wing, there are no san diego slots (in any of the communities) you will not be going there.

Hope this helps.
 
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If the schools have what is called a cross-town agreement, yes, you can do that. For example, students in New Orleans do their unit functions at Tulane University, but can attend Tulane, University of New Orleans, Xavier, or Loyola (I may have missed one or two there). Call Berkeley and verify that's the case with SFSU. For cross town, you may want to find out how often you have drill/lab/Naval Science classes (or whatever they are called there) and when/where they are, because if will affect your commute back and forth and may really screw up your schedule.

For the second question, I'm not in the Navy so I'll keep my trap shut. Good luck!
 
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paikea

paikea

Eight-year-olds, Dude.
Great information. I'll definitely give the unit a call.

Thanks a load :icon_smil
 
Road Program

Road Program

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There was this one girl I went to school with who did Air Force ROTC across town at another school. Not sure if that helps or not, but I'm sure it can be done in the Navy.

As far as requesting where to be stationed, yes it's possible. You can ask all you want. I've been pretty good about getting what I wanted, and most people I know are the same way. Now if you ask for a VFA squadron in Des Moines, then yes, you might have a problem getting that.
 
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Yes you can. I did it for a year.

But be careful- how far away is the ROTC detachment from your own school?

That is vitally important. If it takes you 30 minutes or more to get there, it will be MORE difficult. And often it just plain sucks. Know this going in- that there will be a challenge beyond what your other cadets are going through. It will be difficult in terms of fulfilling ROTC obligations as well as social fun with your friends in the detachment.

Its definitely not impossible- as I had one other cadet from my school who graduated- got his commission- etc... but you end up being split in half with your time with the two different groups.

My advice? Avoid it if you can and go to the actual school with ROTC- or one very close to it.
 
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