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**UPDATE 4/26/2022** Effective with the May 6, 2022 PIR 4 guests will be allowed. Still must be fully vaccinated to attend.
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
**UPDATE 7/29/2021** You now must be fully vaccinated in order to attend PIR:
In light of observed changes and impact of the Coronavirus Delta Variant and out of an abundance of caution for our recruits, Sailors, staff, and guests, Recruit Training Command is restricting Pass-in-Review (recruit graduation) to ONLY fully immunized guests (14-days post final COVID vaccination dose).
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Navy JROTC Moms
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For moms of current or past NJROTC members. They may not actually be in the Navy, but they wear the uniform and learn to walk the walk - and many of them will eventually join, either as commissioned officers, or enlisted.
Members: 19
Latest Activity: May 28, 2013
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Comment by flbradybunch (Corpsman Mom) on October 6, 2011 at 9:09pm
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Arwen - most colleges have that freshman on-campus requirement, but if a student has family in the area you can generally get that requirement waived.
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Comment by Arwen on October 6, 2011 at 6:47pm
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The school where my daughter wants to attend requires freshmen to live in dorms, but once she is a sophomore she can live with relatives in the area.
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Comment by Lori4629 on October 6, 2011 at 2:31pm
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the one big draw back with the NROTC scholarship is that most schools no longer offer the room & board scholarship. So they need to be awarded academic scholarships from their school or take out loans or have financial need. The room & board can run 7,000-10,000 a year! I really want to see schools start offering these again!
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Her father is a former nuke and they've been trying to recruit my younger son as a nuke, so I'm not at all surprised that she has nuke traits.
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Comment by Pat on October 5, 2011 at 8:16pm
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She actually sounds a lot like a Nuke I know.
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Oh, also, she doesn't want to do USNA, it's too intense for her tastes. She wants NROTC at a major state university so she has a normal civilian student life when she's not doing the military thing. An engineering major is intense enough as it is.
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We're looking for every possible advantage. While Erin is one of the more advanced students, she is not an A student. She gets As but mostly Bs, because she's bored and unchallenged, even in the honors classes. Right now we're coming down hard on her because she's failing health class - which is one that doesn't offer an advanced class. She says it feels like a punishment being in there - like a remedial class, so she blows it off and doesn't do the homework.
She tends to excel at tests, so we're not at all worried about those. She breathes math and science, and would rather read than hang out with friends or watch TV (there is currently a sticky note on my computer with a request for more books).
We expect a B average plus high test scores will be good enough to get into the college she wants (her brother got in with worse grades), the only challenge will be the NROTC scholarship. Without it she can't afford college at all. Her brothers both had to drop out of community college because even with federal grants, it was too hard on the budget.
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@Arwen, My daughter got the NROTC Nurse Corps Scholarship without ever doing NJROTC. My son's best friend did 4 years NJROTC, was the BX CO, commanded some drill teams, had 3 nominations and still DIDN'T get into the USNA. He even had the vice presidential nomination! The difference, in my opinion, is all about ACT or SAT scores and GPA. NJROTC certainly helps, but it won't make up for test scores below 30. I think you get equal mileage out of being a varsity sports captain-which my daughter was.
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The Marine major who is in charge of Erin's unit told us that 4 full years of JROTC = E-3 if they choose the Navy. I guess that follows because they get E-2 for JROTC, and they get 15 college credits in this state from JROTC, which gets them to E-3.
My understanding is that there is no way to E-3 in boot camp for other services. The best they can do is E-2.
But how much does JROTC really help in getting into NROTC or Annapolis?
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It helps a lot - thanks so much Lori!
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