Posted on May 13, 2016
Is anyone familiar with the ROTC Green to Gold, non-scholarship process?
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I did the Active Duty G2G option. Can message me if you/Soldier have questions after researching the options! Happy to coach, teach, and mentor future leaders anytime.
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With respect, sincerely, and I don't blame you if you don't like this answer, but...
I would give very limited assistance and even less encouragement to an enlisted person who wants to be an officer. If a soldier has the initiative, resourcefulness, and desire to become an officer, they'll figure it out and get it done without support or approval from others. In my mind, an officer applicant needs to have an unusual ability to solve their own problems. If they don't get through the application process without assistance, they shouldn't be an officer in the first place.
I would simply say, good luck and I wish you well.
Sorry for hurt any feelings. I may be wrong, but that's my personal view.
I would give very limited assistance and even less encouragement to an enlisted person who wants to be an officer. If a soldier has the initiative, resourcefulness, and desire to become an officer, they'll figure it out and get it done without support or approval from others. In my mind, an officer applicant needs to have an unusual ability to solve their own problems. If they don't get through the application process without assistance, they shouldn't be an officer in the first place.
I would simply say, good luck and I wish you well.
Sorry for hurt any feelings. I may be wrong, but that's my personal view.
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COL Jon Thompson
I made it through 30 years of commissioned service as an officer by asking a lot of people along the way for help. I would never discourage someone from doing the same. As a current Recruiting Operations Officer for an ROTC program, I recently worked with a regular Army SSG who wanted to do this option. The process is not all that straight forward. I looked in the Cadet Command regulations and it was not clear in those. I finally got the answer and then the Soldier did all the leg work to get this done. He is coming into our program this fall. If he had not asked, none of this would have happened. Since this is a SSG who is asking the question, I bet this Soldier is a junior enlisted who has been in the Army for a moment. I would not expect someone like that to know where to look or where to get the answers. He is not asking for someone to do the packet for him, he is asking for guidance on how to get it done. I think it is poor leadership for someone to provide little encouragement to a Soldier who wants to better themselves.
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Sir, I think the limit on the number of words used in a post limited my ability to lay out the situation fully. My Soldier, promotable Specialist, has his application in the pipeline and hasn't heard any response in a reasonable time frame. He's in that limbo where the deadline is fast approaching and he can't get a response or confirmation. The non-scholarship process isn't clearly laid out as other ROTC processes are. So, I reached out to the extensive knowledge base here on Rally Point.
No hurt feelings, no report or blankie necessary! Thank you Sir.
No hurt feelings, no report or blankie necessary! Thank you Sir.
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Respectfully disagree. Glove on the other hand: New butterbar hits his very first duty station...asks for help on how something works. His Platoon Daddy says, “Sir, just look it up there’s got to be a regulation that covers it somewhere. A good LT would know where to find the answer”. This would be an unexceptable response. Sharing information is not coddling.
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SSG(P) (Join to see) - Thank you SSG Unger, we've got all that. Thank you for your response.
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