Military Personnel Policy Accession Policy Ms. Stephanie Miller, Director Prepared for the Fall 2019 AMCSUS Conference 10 Sept 2019 Mission Develop, review, and analyze policies, budgets, and plans for Services’ active duty enlisted recruiting and officer commissioning programs

FY2019 Active Component Recruiting Update Current a/o 30 Jul 2019   Quantity Quality Active Components Enlisted Recruiting Goals Accessions Percent of Goal Percent High School Diploma Graduate; Department of Defense Benchmark ≥ 90 percent Percent Scoring at / above 50th Percentile on Armed Forces Qualification Test; Department of Defense Benchmark ≥ 60 percent Percent Scoring at / below 30th Percentile on Armed Forces Qualification Test; Department of Defense Benchmark ≤ 4 percent Army 50,790 48,896 96.27 Y 93.7 G 60.7 2.25 Navy 31,944 31,929 99.95 97.5 71.6 Marine Corps 25,314 25,352 100.15 99.4 69.1 Air Force 27,338 27,436 100.36 98.4 81.8 DoD Total 135,386 133,613 98.69 96.6 69.0 .79 Quantity Key: 100 percent or above goal; 90-99 percent of goal; below 90 percent of goal

FY2019 Reserve Component Recruiting Update Current a/o 30 Jul 2019   Quantity Quality Reserve Components Enlisted Recruiting Goals Accessions Percent of Goal Percent High School Diploma Graduate; Department of Defense Benchmark ≥ 90 percent Percent Scoring at / above 50th Percentile on Armed Forces Qualification Test; Department of Defense Benchmark ≥ 60 percent Percent Scoring at / below 30th Percentile on Armed Forces Qualification Test; Department of Defense Benchmark ≤ 4 percent ARNG 32,625 33,103 101.47 G 97.4 63.2 4.51 Y USAR 12,900 12,760 98.91 97.2 65.4 0.87 USNR 7,000 6,193 88.47 R 96.9 74.2 USMCR 7,122 7,553 106.05 99.2 75.6 ANG 7,565 8,133 107.51 100.0 77.0 USAFR 5,183 6,130 118.27 99.8 75.5 DoD Total 72,395 73,852 102.01 97.9 67.6 2.11 Quantity Key: 100 percent or above goal; 90-99 percent of goal; below 90 percent of goal

(includes Active and Reserve) ROTC By the Numbers Host Units Other Affiliations* Total ROTC 5-yr Average Production (includes Active and Reserve) Army (AROTC) 274 701 975 5,447** Air Force (AFROTC) 145 867 1,012 1,680 Navy / Marine Corps (NROTC) 77 89 166 1,051 DoD Totals 496 1,659 2,155 9,259 11% 35.5% 16.4% 20.4% 16.5% 1,595 Colleges and Universities across the United States have ROTC affiliations 883 Colleges and Universities are affiliated with two different Military Departments (e.g., State University has both AROTC and AFROTC units on campus) 393 Colleges and Universities are affiliated with all three Military Departments (e.g., State University has an AROTC host unit, and AFROTC, NROTC Crosstown affiliations) * There are four major ways a college or university can be affiliated with ROTC via formal contract: 1) Host: an ROTC unit is maintained on campus; students attend on their own campus 2) Crosstown: students attend ROTC at a nearby campus with a host unit 3) Extension: a nearby host unit conducts part-time ROTC on campus; students attend on their own campus, but the unit is not maintained there 4) Consortium: various nearby ROTC units share resources; arrangements vary amongst consortiums ** Includes both Active Duty and Reserve Component Commissions. Army ROTC commissions ~2K officers per year into the Reserve Component; AF ROTC is authorized to do so in very small numbers (~30), but rarely uses ROTC for Reserve Commissions. Naval ROTC only commissions Active Duty Sailors and Marines. ROTC: 5500/ year (35%) MSAs: 3,000 / year (17%) OCS: 3,700/year (20%) Direct Commissioning: 3,000/year (17%) Enlisted Commissioning Programs: 2,000/year (11%)

ROTC Top Producers (5-year Average Production) Army ROTC AF ROTC Naval ROTC DoD Combined 1 Virginia Military Institute* Texas A&M University* 2 The Citadel* Virginia Tech* 3 Embry Riddle Aeronautical University – Daytona Beach, FL 4 Norwich University* University of Central Florida Penn State University 5 University of North Georgia* Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University – Prescott, AZ 6 University of Colorado 7 University of Virginia Villanova University 8 Campbell University University of Texas – San Antonio University of Notre Dame 9 Georgia Southern University Purdue University 10 Texas Christian University North Carolina State University Arizona State University 893 Commissions 16% of AROTC Production 302 Commissions 18% of AFROTC Production 280 Commissions 27% of NROTC Production 1,340 Commissions 14.5% of All DoD Commissions * Denotes Senior Military Colleges. SMCs account for 11% of AROTC Commissions, 8.3% of AFROTC Commissions, and 15% of NROTC Commissions.

Dominance of Top Producers (Quartile Performance) FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Dominance of Top Producers (Quartile Performance) The top 25% of ROTC Host Units account for the bulk of commissions. AROTC AFROTC NROTC DoD Percentage of ROTC Commissions ROTC Units’ Order of Merit Based On Production For AROTC and AFROTC, the top Quartile produces more than the next two Quartiles combined. This disproportionate production is evident even within the Top Quartile, where the top 5% of Host Units produce 25% of all AROTC and AFROTC commissions. NROTC’s top 5% of units produce 13% of total production.

Top Minority Programs (5-year Average Production) FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Top Minority Programs (5-year Average Production) Army ROTC Air Force ROTC Naval ROTC DoD Combined 1 University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez* (40) University of Texas – San Antonio* (13) Savannah State University* (15) University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez* 2 University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras* (29) University of California – Los Angeles** (11) Florida A&M University* (9) University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras* 3 University of Hawaii (26) Tennessee State University* (11) Texas A&M University (8) Texas A&M University 4 Campbell University** (25) Samford University** (10) Morehouse College* (7) University of Southern California** 5 Florida International University* (23) California State University – Fresno* (10) University of California – Los Angeles** (7) University of Hawaii 6 Texas A&M University (22) University of Puerto Rico – Rio Piedras* (9) Old Dominion University** (7) Virginia Military Institute 7 University of Southern California** (21) University of Georgia (8) Prairie View A&M University* (7) University of California – Los Angeles** 8 The Citadel (20) University of California – Berkeley** (8) Virginia Tech (7) The Citadel 9 Claremont McKenna College** (20) Virginia Tech (8) Southern University A&M (7) Virginia Tech 10 Virginia Military Institute (18) East Carolina University (8) University of California – Berkeley** (7) Campbell University** 299 Commissions (5-yr Avg) 15% of AROTC Minority Production 96 Commissions (5-yr Avg) 23% of AFROTC Minority Production 80 Commissions (5-yr Avg) 30% of NROTC Minority Production 368 Commissions (5-yr Avg) 14% of All DoD Minority Commissions The 4 largest SMCs all make the list(s). Note: No SMCs are considered MSIs (minority serving institutions) * Denotes Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)—either an Historically Black College or University (HBCU) or an Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI); Host units at MSIs produce 29% of AROTC, 24% of AFROTC, and 23% of NROTC commissions. ** Denotes non-MSI College/University with a Host Unit that supports a Crosstown MSI(s). Racial/Ethnic Minority statistics: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, in compliance with the 1997 revision of the OMB Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 and the U.S. Department of Education Final Guidance on Maintaining, Collecting, and Reporting Racial and Ethnic Data to the Department of Education (Federal Register, Vol. 72, No. 202, 10/19/2008)

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Questions Lt Col Naomi Henigin, Assistant Director for Officer Accession Programs (703) 695-5529 naomi.y.henigin.mil@mail.mil