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NROTC Marine Option -- on stats, interviews, intangibles With the Marine Option board questions coming around, I decided to share/"declassify" my son's experience and give my thoughts and impressions on the process. I'll start out by posting an often referenced link to a blog post by one of...

For those that are curious on notification timeline for the early board, here is a track of activity for my DS. Of course, "individual results may vary"... 19 Dec -- DS received phone call from CO and XO of recruiting station. They congratulated him on being selected during the 8th MCD early...

Article may be of interest to us board watchers... http://news.usni.org/2014/10/17/cno-greenert-navy-take-new-look-rotc-scholarship-mix The head of the U.S. Navy said that service might take a second look at the mix of scholarships it offers to Naval ROTC midshipmen in the next few years...

Summary: It pays to get a second opinion Since my DS just went through this, I wanted to relay a positive outcome. I'll start out by saying that the DoDMERB process went pretty quickly once my son was finally in the system. (Evidently there was a glitch in uploading information between...