Interview Help for MO NROTC

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cs225

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I am moving along in my MO NROTC application (I am taking my first PFT next week) and I’ve been wondering about the interview. What is it like? Do I have to carry the conversation with my own talking points and the officer just listen or is it more of a question answer type thing? Can my local recruiter give me a mock interview or no?
 
Many threads here about interviews, whether for ROTC or BGO or noms. Use the search function, as this is a well-worn topic. The interviews will all be a bit different, yet all a bit similar. Your interviewer will have set topics/questions and you should be ready for the most typical ones.
 
As @MidCakePa stated - it is highly dependent on the person interviewing you. My DS's MO interview last year lasted no more than 15 minutes. His PFT was right after the interview. He walked away without having a good feel for how it went. He said that the MO interview was more structured and less conversational. His AROTC interview lasted almost an hour and was very conversational. I think it all depends on who is interviewing you. My DS had had conversations with both his MO and his AROTC interviewee prior to the interviews so he had a basic comfort level with them both.

He spent a good amount of time preparing for both with a retired Army Colonel. I think those sessions helped him a great deal with his interviews.

Make sure you are ready for your PFT. It is just as (if not more) important than your interview.
 
Tell the interviewer that the US Marine Corps is the world’s finest fighting force.


Just kidding. Just be yourself. A mock interview is a good idea. Good luck.
 
@EEBTTF 's DS's experience sounds very similar to mine. I went in expecting some sort discussion about what makes me fit to be a leader or why I should be awarded the scholarship and instead it was mostly filling out forms. I was maybe asked two "open ended questions." I have no idea though if this is the norm or not, so take it with a grain of salt.
 
DS had to travel 3hr so went overnight. It was a several hour adventure that he needed to plan for and accomplish. There were two officer interviews: one with the regional coordinator named in the application and another with a more senior officer. He said something like 30 minutes and 15 minutes. Structured but conversational. There was a lot of time spent with sergeants and corporals filling out paperwork.

We have a fairly unique last name and the first two letters are F and U. We usually spell it out loud for people writing it for the first time.

Marines apparently find hearing "F, as in Frank... U, as in uncle..." hilarious.
 
Torero_dad said:
DS had to travel 3hr so went overnight. It was a several hour adventure that he needed to plan for and accomplish. There were two officer interviews: one with the regional coordinator named in the application and another with a more senior officer. He said something like 30 minutes and 15 minutes. Structured but conversational. There was a lot of time spent with sergeants and corporals filling out paperwork.

We have a fairly unique last name and the first two letters are F and U. We usually spell it out loud for people writing it for the first time.

Marines apparently find hearing "F, as in Frank... U, as in uncle..." hilarious.
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Torero_dad said:
Marines apparently find hearing "F, as in Frank... U, as in uncle..." hilarious
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@Torero_dad - you might as well go all in and switch the family to the proper alphabet for the military: the NATO phonetic alphabet. Henceforth, you will spell your name as Foxtrot... Uniform... etc
 
EEBTTF said:
@cs225 - Have you done a PFT practice test yet?
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I will be taking a PFT with my local recruiter next week, I have been testing myself with putting the different sections together and sometimes in different orders (depending on the senerio and the availability of pull-up bars
 
cs225 said:
I will be taking a PFT with my local recruiter next week, I have been testing myself with putting the different sections together and sometimes in different orders (depending on the senerio and the availability of pull-up bars
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I'm not sure doing it in different orders helps anything. The format for it, including rest times, is fixed. Good to be working at it though.
 
I think there is a lot of benefit in doing the PFT in the order of the exercises. Doing the run first and then the pullups is different on the body. Great job on focusing on the PFT early in the process. You have plenty of time to nail the PFT. If you don't hit your goal this time, you will have plenty of time to re-train and take the test again. 275 seems to be the avg for a competitive application. Shoot for 290+! Good luck!
 
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