Navy Credentialing Opportunities Online (COOL) - NCR-Navy Counselor (Recruiter)
www.cool.navy.mil
Just for context purposes, and for readers who aren’t quite sure who all these recruiters are, the link above is the rating (job) description for the enlisted Navy recruiters who are the “professional” recruiters who focus full-time on bringing in quality recruits to the enlisted ranks. Some pre-comm candidates may encounter them at their HS and other venues. Note the word “aggressive.” It’s a pressure-cooker environment driven by monthly quotas, with 101 things to do to successfully shepherd an enlisted recruit from first contact to orders to boot camp. They may or may not know anything about officer commissioning programs, or what they know is incomplete. It is also not their primary duty. They may also secretly hope to snag a quality enlisted recruit if the SA or NROTC process proves too daunting. There are also regular Fleet sailors who rotate into recruiting duty as a shore duty assignment. As with any group, most are fine people, dedicated to their job, but some will not follow through, likely because their priorities are elsewhere (meeting quotas).
I was assigned temp duty at a Navy Recruiting District (they have new names now), the regional staff office which runs all those field offices
, not to do recruiting, but to do some work for the SECNAV IG to complete investigations into complaints lodged about recruiting practices. It was eye-opening. The pressure-cooker environment chasing after warm bodies made me secretly promise myself to avoid orders to recruiting duty if I could. I met many principled people, officer and enlisted, committed to doing their jobs well. Unfortunately, the pressure drives others to overlook the rule book or promises made that don’t directly contribute to quota work.
It’s always been a bit mysterious to me how NROTC recruiters work, who they are, how to find them. I miss one of our past posters who was at a NROTC unit who always knew the right answer.
The key is to do as much as possible on your own through the NROTC website, use the contact info there to find the right recruiters to work with for those action items that require one.