Veteran's Benfits

Your military experience could fulfill your credit requirements for the ROTC Basic Course. This means that, if credit is granted by the Professor of Military Science (PMS) and provided you are not on a Army ROTC 3-year scholarship, you can skip the freshman and sophomore years of Military Science and enroll directly in the Advanced Course (MSIII year).

Scholarship Information

To be awarded an ROTC scholarship, you must be under 32 years of age on December 31 of the year you expect to graduate and receive your commission.

If you are not awarded a ROTC scholarship, you must be under 32 years of age on December 31 of the year you expect to graduate and receive your commission. Requests for a waiver of age may be considered on an individual basis up to age 34.

National Guard and Reserve Duty

You may be able to take advantage of a program that allows you to participate in ROTC and enlist in the Army National Guard or Army Reserve at the same time, provided a vacancy exists in either a Guard or Reserve unit. It's called the Simultaneous Membership Program (SMP), and it means that while you're still in college you can be gaining valuable experience and earning extra income. Under this program you will be paid at the rate of at least a Sergeant E-5 for your Guard or Reserve service, and you'll receive the ROTC Advanced Course allowance as well.

You will serve as an officer trainee in a Guard or Reserve unit and perform duties commensurate with the grade of second lieutenant. After you graduate and are commissioned, you may continue your military service with your unit or apply for active duty in the U.S. Army.

Military Service Obligation

Following graduation, cadets are required to serve in the Active Army, Army National Guard or the Army Reserve.

All scholarship students will be required to serve in the military for a period of eight years. This obligation may be fulfilled by serving two to four years on active duty, followed by four to six years' service as citizen soldiers in the Army National Guard (ARNG), or U.S. Army Reserve (USAR), or by serving eight years in the ARNG or USAR preceded by a period necessary to complete the active component resident officer basic course (OBC).

Non-scholarship graduates may serve three years on active duty and five years as citizen soldier, or they may select, or be selected, to fulfill their total military obligation as citizen soldiers. If Reserve Forces Duty is selected, graduates will serve a period of active duty necessary to complete the active component resident OBC, and spend the remainder of the eight-year obligation in the ARNG or USAR.

For further information contact,

Major Michael G. Mouritsen
Major, Aviation
Recruiting Operations Officer
(775) 784-6751
mouritse@unr.edu

For information on the University's Veteran Benefits located on the 2nd Floor of the Fitzgerald Student Services Building, contact Johann Sprenger (775) 784-4700 x2033

Veterans Services and Admissions Website