Question from Struggling Mid

What are the ramifications of walking away from ROTC after your freshman year? (i.e. barred from enlistment, other commissioning programs, stain on reputation?)

Depends on how your time within the program was characterized by the PNS on your disenrollment forms.

Take a look at this form: https://www.public.navy.mil/netc/ns...-17) - NROTC Student Disenrollment Report.pdf

At bottom of first page, PNS recommends (from 5 choices) your future acceptability for officer programs.
 
As for communities, I know after ROTC I am only able to commission into unrestricted line communities like Surface Warfare, Subsurface Warfare, etc. While these fields are great opportunities, there is no community that you commission into after ROTC that is directly involved with law/law enforcement.
Well, I know an unrestricted Marine Officer could get an MOS as Military Police. It's not strictly police oriented as it also include base security, but it is somewhat related. I don't know about Navy and Shore Patrol but I bet you can find out. Of course things are never guaranteed in either service and the Corps has a somewhat odd way of determining MOSs. One of DS's top choices was Military Police and there were a couple slots available for his class but he couldn't land a slot. I think he ended up in the right place anyway though, so it's all good.
 
Look into transferring schools; I know a MIDN who did that and was significantly happier at his new school. Earlier is always better, esp if you’re early in the process and can potentially transfer for Freshman Winter 2020.
 
I have looked into transferring schools within the means I am able to, and I do not think that would solve the problem as i've stated previously.
 
A possible suggestion...….Have you checked into the CG? ALL USCG Petty, Warrant, and Commissioned Officers are "Federal Law Enforcement Officers", and most, if they desire, can work in the Law Enforcement field while attending numerous LE Schools, including the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, plan and conduct Law Enforcement Operations, and gain valuable LE Experience. You can possibly graduate NROTC, go into the field, and "Cross Branch" into the CG as an O-1 or O-2. I went from the CG (senior enlisted) directly into the US Customs Service as a Special Agent, and had a really good career.

Just another option..:)
 
No advice to add except an observation: ab24, you should take heart that you're not only an extremely thoughtful and honest person confronting a tough challenge squarely, but you're also in good hands with the advice you've been given here on these boards.

Everything said above has been exceptionally wise and well-intentioned. You're quite lucky to have such a (virtual) community that not only wants to help but--this is really rare--knows how to help with relevant, specific and well-founded advice.

Ponder it, apply it to your own situation judiciously and I'm sure you'll turn out fine.

Best,
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I think it would be good to have Comp Sci background as a lawyer...I was a juror on a trial and I laughed (to myself) about some of the computer related things they said...like "I never read those Child P*rn emails...I just downloaded them to diskette to save space" or showing us files with the modified date > created date and claiming they were never looked at.
 
As someone else mentioned, since you arent sure what the issue is, it hard to figure out what the answer would. It would seem to me that assuming you want to continue with your military career, is to transfer to a different college and join their Rotc program. Lets be honest, we apply to colleges based on a personal criteria, if we are lucky, we visit them for one day and then we choose based on some meaningless idea in our heads. I mean my son crossed out schools from his list when the tour was crappy. Sometimes it works out, sometimes it doesnt. The problem for most people is that they are unhappy at their school, get crappy grades and cant transfer. Based on what you said, it looks like you can transfer. Change school, change your scenary. Maybe it will help, maybe it wont. Maybe it isnt the school and you are the problem. I dont say this to be harsh but rather sometimes it isnt the school but rather the person. My advice which is worth nothing is to change schools although you should continue Rotc assuming you want to do that.
 
Thank you for your time,

I am able to transfer schools, but I am not confident that it would solve my issues because the cross town affiliates are no-gos for me personally. And the risk with that is if I wait until next year to transfer and end up still miserable, itll be too late to make changes without serious consequences.

I think I am going to talk to my nrotc advisor about direct commissioning routes because I do still want to serve in the military but I think it would be better for me to look at the JAG route instead of NROTC.
 
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