FISCAL YEAR 2024 NAVAL RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING CORPS SELECTION BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT
Date Signed: 8/18/2023 | MARADMINS Number: 403/23
MARADMINS : 403/23

R 181000Z AUG 23
MARADMIN 403/23
MSGID/GENADMIN/CMC WASHINGTON DC MRA MM//
SUBJ/FISCAL YEAR 2024 (FY24) NAVAL RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING CORPS (NROTC) SELECTION BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT//
REF/A/MSGID: DOC/MCO/YMD: 20210510//
REF/B/MSGID: DOC/MCO/YMD: 20210203//
NARR/REF A IS MCO 1300.8 CH-1, MARINE CORPS PERSONNEL ASSIGNMENT POLICY. REF B IS MCO 1001.65A, ACTIVE COMPONENT OFFICER RETENTION AND PRIOR SERVICE ACCESSIONS.//
POC/M. D. SCOTTO/MAJ/MMOA-3/TEL: 703-784-9284/EMAIL: MICHAEL.D.SCOTTO@USMC.MIL//
SMBMMOAPLANSO@USMC.MIL//
GENTEXT/REMARKS/1.  This message announces the eligibility criteria for Marines desiring to apply for NROTC Professor of Naval Science (PNS), Executive Officer (XO), and Marine Officer Instructor (MOI) duty, and the timeline for selection board execution.
1.a.  Major timeline milestones are below:
Date                       Milestone
12 September 2023          NROTC application submitted 
12 October 2023            FY24 NROTC board convenes
30 October 2023            FY24 NROTC PNS/XO results released
01 December 2023           FY24 NROTC MOI results released
1.a.1.  Eligible officers must complete all package application requirements by 2359 eastern time (ET) on 12 September 2023.
2.  Background
2.a.  NROTC units are an essential component in the training of prospective naval officers.  Officers serving at NROTC units mentor, develop, and shape the future officer corps and will therefore be of the highest caliber.  Officers aspiring to serve on NROTC duty must possess superlative leadership and academic qualities, be of sound moral character, and demonstrate superior physical fitness.
2.b.  Officers serving as an XO or MOI regularly support and augment summer training at Officer Candidates School, and other seasonal training programs such as new student indoctrination, or career orientation and training for Midshipmen.
3.  Eligibility.  NROTC positions are open to all unrestricted officers that meet the following criteria:
3.a.  Grade.  Officers must meet the grade criterion (or be a select for promotion to that grade) of the associated duty for which they are applying.  Paragraph 5 lists available billets with the required grade.
3.a.1.  Officers applying for MOI or XO must possess the career timing to serve a full tour of duty (36 months) as a pinned captain or major, respectively.  Requests for exceptions will not normally receive favorable consideration.
3.b.  Applicants must be a FY24 mover based upon current prescribed tour length.
3.b.1.  Manpower Management Officer Assignments (MMOA) will normally not consider officers scheduled to complete their prescribed tour length in FY25 or beyond.
3.b.2.  Officers may request via Administrative Action (AA) form to screen if they are scheduled to complete their prescribed tour length in FY25.  The first O5 in the chain of command must endorse the request and therein acknowledge a potential extended gap in staffing should the requesting officer be selected for NROTC duty.
3.b.3.  Officers currently serving in their first tour will be afforded the opportunity to screen for NROTC duty when they are eligible to compete for promotion to captain and career designation.
3.c.  Academics.  Minimum requirement is a bachelor’s degree with a 3.0 undergraduate Grade Point Average (GPA).  Select schools waive this requirement to 2.5 if the applicant's record is otherwise outstanding.  Select billets require a master’s degree.  Paragraph 5 lists this as Note 1.
3.d.  Physical fitness.  High first class PFT and CFT recommended.
3.e.  Officers who are not yet career designated, but will screen for career designation by the FY24 Career Designation Panel #1 in spring 2024 may apply.
3.e.1.  Per reference (b), as authorized by the Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, officers selected for MOI duty will be offered career designation in conjunction with their selection to that duty.
3.e.2.  Selected officers who failed selection for career designation, or are selected for career designation and decline, will nullify their MOI selection and execute their End of Active Service (EAS).
3.e.3.  MMOA makes every effort to match selected officers with their preferences.  However, by volunteering and applying for NROTC duty, officers agree to be assigned to any available NROTC billet.  All requests to decline selection after the release of the selection Marine Administrative (MARADMIN) message must be made via naval letter format with O6 command endorsement.  MMOA will consider all requests in the context of the needs of the Marine Corps for approval or disapproval.  Requests for declination by officers who volunteered and were selected for NROTC duty will not normally receive favorable consideration.  There is no deferral of PNS/XO/MOI selection.
4.  Officers interested in NROTC duty who meet the above eligibility criteria must submit the documents listed below as part of their package to MMOA-3 no later than 2359 ET on 12 September 2023 to the following organization address:  SMBMMOAPLANSO@USMC.MIL.
4.a.  Electronic packages must be submitted in a single portable document format (i.e. ‘.pdf’.) file with the following naming convention:  “EDIPI_LASTNAME_FY24NROTC.pdf”. 
4.b.  The applications must include:
4.b.1.  Personal statement.  Submit this letter in standard naval letter format from the Marine to MMOA-3.  This is the officer’s opportunity to express in writing their desire to serve on NROTC duty, elaborate on relevant personal strengths and experiences, and submit duty station preferences.  Applicants must include a prioritized list in preference order of all billets for which they are eligible, using the list in paragraph (5).  In the event that MMOA changes the list of available billets by updating the webpage in paragraph (5.a.) after the point at which an officer has submitted his or her package, the officer may submit an updated personal statement with revised billet preferences, but this is not required.  Applicants are encouraged to submit personal statements of 3 pages or less.
4.b.2.  Command endorsement in standard naval letter format from the immediate chain of command, battalion/squadron commander or equivalent, for officers applying for MOI or XO.
4.b.3.  One letter of recommendation.
4.b.4.  Official college transcripts.  Official college transcripts are to be sent directly from the university or officer to Manpower Mangement Records and Performance-20 (SMB.MANPOWER.MMRP-20@USMC.MIL) to be included in the officer's Official Military Personnel File (OMPF).  If legible college transcripts are already included in the officer's OMPF, a duplicate submission is not required.5
5.  Billet vacancies
5.a.  Below is the list of billets available at the time of publication.  The list may change due to unforeseen circumstances and MMOA will post a current list on the NROTC Selection Panel webpage at https:(slash)(slash)www.manpower.usmc.mil/webcenter/portal/MMOA3_BUI/pages_fy13569587.
5.b.  NROTC Professor of Naval Science (PNS) vacancies (read in five columns):
University                      Location             MCC  Rank  Note
Univ of California Los Angeles  Los Angeles, CA      H06  Col    1,3
Villanova University            Philadelphia, PA     H93  Col    1,3
Virginia Military Institute     Lexington, VA        H87  Col
5.c.  NROTC Executive Officer (XO) vacancies (read in five columns):
University                      Location             MCC  Rank  Note
Cornell University              Ithaca, NY           H12  Maj    1
Carnegie Mellon University      Pittsburgh, PA       H05  Maj    1
Prairie View A&M                Prairie View, TX     H69  Maj    1,3
University of Utah              Salt Lake City, UT   H91  Maj    1
5.d.  NROTC Marine Officer Instructor (MOI) vacancies (read in five columns):
University                      Location             MCC  Rank  Note
The Citadel                     Charleston, SC       H07  Capt
Embry Riddle Aeronautical Univ  Daytona Beach, FL    HAD  Capt
University of Idaho             Moscow, ID           H24  Capt
Jacksonville University         Jacksonville, FL     H31  Capt   2
Univ Of Memphis                 Memphis, TN          H65  Capt   2,3
Univ Of Mississippi             Oxford, MS           H46  Capt   2,3
Norwich University              Northfield, VT       H57  Capt
University of Oklahoma          Norman, OK           H62  Capt
Oregon State University         Corvallis, OR        H64  Capt
Prairie View A&M                Prairie View, TX     H69  Capt   3
University Of Rochester         Rochester, NY        H78  Capt
Rutgers University              Camden, NJ           H97  Capt
San Diego State University      San Diego, CA        H83  Capt   3
Univ of Southern California     Los Angeles, CA      H82  Capt   3
Univ of South Carolina          Columbia, SC         H80  Capt
Texas A&M University            College Station, TX  H89  Capt
University of Texas             Austin, TX           H86  Capt   2
University Of Virginia          Charlottesville, VA  H94  Capt
Virginia Military Institute     Lexington, VA        H87  Capt
Yale University                 New Haven, CT        HC6  Capt
Note 1:  Master’s degree required.  If applicant does not possess a graduate degree, an enrollment, or an accepted status, into a graduate degree program is required.
Note 2:  Waives GPA requirement to 2.5.
Note 3:  This university is associated with a consortium.  Local travel will be required between the university locations.
6.  All interested officers must receive approval to apply from their PMOS monitors and include that correspondence in their application package submission.
7.  MMOA will release separate selection MARADMINs upon conclusion of the board.  MMOA will publish the results for PNS and XO billets immediately following the conclusion of the board.  MMOA will publish the results for MOI billets in December to ensure maximum deconfliction with other non-statutory boards and panels.  MMOA may not issue permanent change of station orders until they receive approval by the NROTC units or universities of selected officers.
8.  This message is not applicable to the Marine Corps Reserve.
9.  Release authorized by BGen Ryan S. Rideout, Director, Manpower Management Division.//