I‘m unclear regarding BRADSO and ADSO, so have asked DS. His 1st, 3rd, and 5th choices currently don’t have either, but his 2nd, 4th, and 6th have ADSO. According to Reddit, they advise NOT to BRADSO unless wanting CY. Maybe this will help
Does anyone have a breakdown of the national numbers for ROTC - I read there are approximately 20,000 ROTC at any given time. I'm assuming that doesn't break down to an even 5000 per class, right? So how many MSIV are going through branching right now? The counts are all-in, right? Whether they are already determined to be NG or AR, they are in the branching counts right?
Not sure the total graduating for this year. I’ve read 5900 and 6100. There are about 3339 active duty slots this year. CDTs have to put in their final branch preferences by Tuesday and will find out what they got on Nov. 30.
This may be too simplistic, but in general terms I've always thought of QM as supply, and Ordnance as maintenance.
I think all APG’s Ordnance is now at Fort Lee.
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In the old days, 80's and early 90', cadets worried first if they were high enough on OML to get AD as an USAR-on AD. I knew many who took what ever branch was offered just to get AD. The only cadets who got AD with 1-3 branch choice were DMG.
BRADSO doesn’t bump you up from P to MP. There are a certain number of branch slots dedicated to BRADSO. So, for example, if there are 40 slots and 10 are reserved for BRADSO, the first 30 MP cadets (ranked by OML within each group) will get placed in the first 30 slots and anyone who BRADSO’d and was MP then gets put ahead of the remaining cadets in that MP group for the next 10 slots.
It seems to have changed considerably since then. For one, they have separated the AD determination from branch selection, so that now the MS-IVs find out first if they are going AD; after that, branch selection occurs. I was Year Group '87, and my recollection was that it was all one ball of wax back then such that -- if you were in the great mass OML-wise (i.e. not DMG) and wanted AD -- it was beneficial to request certain branches to increase your odds. That may not have been how it actually worked -- in other words, they may have gone straight by OML and then assigned branches -- but my recollection is that branch selection played a role in the AD determination. I believe we found out AD and branch all at the same time.
Congrats to your son! I remember how exciting Branch night was for my son last year. Now the next big news will be BOLC dates and duty station. Good luck!
How long did your son have to wait for BOLC? Did they get gold bar recruiter or anything to get put on orders early?
My son was one of the first in his battalion to find out his BOLC date and Duty Station in early April. But most of his class didn’t find out until much later. He was not eligible for Gold Bar because his MIBOLC date was early September. He did not volunteer for Ft Knox but got orders in May that he was to report to Ft Knox in June where he worked with cadets at Basic Camp. So he had a few weeks notice that his summer would be spent in KY instead of at home. He went straight to MIBOLC from Ft Knox.