AROTC vs NROTC-MO DoDMERB

[EEBTTF]

If you get cleared by DODMERB for AROTC, does that clearance transfer to NROTC-MO Scholarship?

 

[AROTC-dad]

If you get cleared by DODMERB for AROTC, does that clearance transfer to NROTC-MO Scholarship?

It depends.

Yes, if DoDMERB passes you. No, if DoDMERB DQ's you and you enter the waiver process.

• If you are Qualified by DoDMERB then you are qualified for all SA's and all ROTC programs.
• If you are DQ'd by DoDMERB, now it is up to each SA and each ROTC program to decide to waive you.
• So you can receive a waiver by NROTC-MO, but possibly be declined by AROTC (or vice versa).
• Bottom line: DoDMERB is a centralized decision. Waivers are de-centralized decisions, which only apply to each SA or ROTC program.

 

[EEBTTF]

@AROTC-dad - Thank you for your response!

 

[AROTC-dad]

These DoDMERB flow charts may help:

Iniital DoDMERB: https://dodmerb.tricare.osd.mil/Content/InitExamRemedEvalProc.pdf
Waiver: https://dodmerb.tricare.osd.mil/Content/MedicalWaiverConsideration.pdf

 

[MullenLE]

EEBTTF - Not necessarily. You can be qualified for AROTC and DQ for NROTC based on Army and Navy vision standards.

As AROTC-dad says, you can be DQ for both and get waived for one an not the other.

 

[EEBTTF]

EEBTTF - Not necessarily. You can be qualified for AROTC and DQ for NROTC based on Army and Navy vision standards.

As AROTC-dad says, you can be DQ for both and get waived for one an not the other.

@AROTC-dad & @MullenLE - Thank you both for the response. So to clarify, if a candidate has been qualified by DoDMERB for a 4-Yr AROTC Scholarship, then he/she should be qualified for a NROTC-MO unless his/her vision exam does not meet NROTC standards? Thanks again for all of your contributions to this forum!

 

[MullenLE]

Correct
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[AROTC-dad]

Yes. As long as he was qualified by DODMERB, and not by waiver.