Current Army ROTC Nursing Student

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my niece is the proud recipient of a 4 year army nursing rotc scholarship and she is due to graduate and be commissioned in 2014. my sister is asking me since i am ex-military myself if there is any chance that she will not get commissioned due to the draw down of the armed forces?? she is an excellent student and she has her heart set on going active duty and travelling. anyone hear anything about army nursing rotc students and their future service? anyone out there on active duty know what the "number's" will be in fy14 and fy15?? thanks!!!:redpinkhe

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Specializes in EMS, ED, Trauma, CEN, CPEN, TCRN.

I haven't heard anything specific to ROTC students. Of course, being ex-military, you know the needs of the service come first, but my advice to your niece is to just continue to be the most excellent student she can and to proceed as planned on her end. I can't tell you what this year will end up looking like, let alone FY14 or FY15... but congrats to your niece on the ROTC scholarship. :)

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Lunah,

Thanks for the input!! I figured that the future "billet" numbers are unknown at this time. My sister would just hate all this work her daughter puts into ROTC and school and she not get the commission. I've never heard of a ROTC scholarship recipient not getting a commission if grades and ROTC scores are good. Poor student and sub-par scores, yes no commission. Niece want to do critical care and then maybe try for the Army's CRNA program. This kid CHOSE to take the pre-med Calculus course instead of the first year required pre-nursing math. She is driven. :yeah:

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Specializes in Critical Care (SICU/Trauma).

ACTUALLY...this can happen, and is what almost happened to me. I had a 3.5 year ROTC scholarship and my MS3 year (Junior) they told me that the only position they had open for me was in the national guard. (Keep in mind, this wasn't due to my GPA, I graduated with a 3.91) nor my PT tests, anything military related. My school didn't have what they call a "nurse mission" (a requirement imposed upon the school by the Army to produce a certain quota of nurses. I basically said no way Jose, didn't sign up to be guard, and got out. Now I am AD Navy.

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MU Runner,

I am currently a Goldbar RN Recruiter with ROTC and never heard of such attitude! I would have passed you over to an AMEDD recruiter instead to at least go AD Army.

What ROTC region were you in if you don't mind me asking?

Rusty

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Before I forget, here are the ROTC regions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Army_rotc_brigade_map.jpg

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MURunner86,

Thanks for the input. I do believe my niece's school ROTC program is Nurse Mission. When she started the program in 2010, the school had 6 slots for the class of 2014 for nursing students. According to my sister, the slots are now only 2, with my niece holding one of the slots. Let's just HOPE they don't drop anymore!! :eek:

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