Withdrawing NROTC App

[scrubjay13]

Hey y'all, made a new account just to ask this.

I recently decided to withdraw my nrotc application as I want to pursue other commissioning sources. After talking with my local recruiter, who said he would withdraw my app on his end, he also told me to withdraw the application on my end. After checking the netc login and the app itself, I have no clue how to do that.

Does anyone know where on the nrotc app you can withdraw? If so, that would be very helpful.

Thanks!

 

[justdoit19]

No idea how to do it. But have you thought this through? You can always decline a scholarship if offered. And no gurantees of another commissioning source to come through. Not trying to be rude, at all. But wondering if this is a well thought out plan? Who knows how things will loookay for you come August next year.

 

[Capt MJ]

The link below has various Contacts relating to scholarship application and tech help.

Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps - Contact

It’s none of our business, your choice to answer, but are you talking with an officer recruiter? Or an enlisted recruiter, no doubt a fine person, but someone who is totally focused on meeting his or her monthly quota for finding healthy, smart, motivated recruits who desire to serve. That recruiter can honestly say there are opportunities for college degrees, commissioning programs, and other positively cast opportunities, but it’s a very narrow path, with no guarantees, and the potential for many things to veer you in other directions. If those directions are fine with you, and you figure you’ll get a college education somewhere along the way, that is an honorable and good way to serve. The path of enlisted service is technically diverse, challenging and a superb launching pad to having career skills, different but complementary to the skill sets developed by officers.

If you’re putting all your eggs in the OCS basket, that is a highly competitive program, with the Navy cherry-picking exactly who it needs to fill out annual Ensign production quotas, after factoring in production from USNA, NROTC and other pre-comm avenues. There are no guarantees there either. Of course, you may have discovered the NUPOC program, a generous college commissioning program that does not require NROTC participation.

If you are focusing solely on USNA, the prudent course of action is to have alternate college and commissioning program plans.

Whatever your path, think carefully before permanently closing a door. If you are working with an officer recruiter at a NROTC unit, I hope they have taken the time to talk it through with you

 

[scrubjay13]

@justdoit19

That's alright and you aren't coming off as rude. It's more that I find myself drawn to the Navy more than the Army, to the point where I feel going through with an NROTC application is pointless as I would rather do AROTC, which I have already submitted an application for, or join the Army through OCS.

 

[scrubjay13]

@Capt MJ

Thanks for the response. Yes I have talked with an officer recruiter and discussed this decision with him, and my college counselor, before going through with the withdrawal. As I mentioned in the response above, I chose to withdraw from NROTC as I found myself drawn to the Army much more than the Navy. Of course, if I somehow do a 180 in college and decide to go Navy, NUPOC is a great program that I have definitely considered.