Welcome Aboard

WELCOME ABOARD

MARQUETTE NROTC CO’s Message

Aspiring Navy and Marine Corps Officers,

A Chinese proverb attributed to the philosopher Laozi, says “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Your journey towards earning a commission in the United States Navy and Marine Corps is about to begin and I commend you for demonstrating the courage to take these first steps!

The Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps is a four-year training program intended to develop you in mind, body, and character such that you can be entrusted with Americas treasure – the young men and women who comprise the all-volunteer military in service to our great nation. The program is demanding and intended to impose a level of stress that regular college students are not under. Your academic load will be greater, expectations of personal wellness and physical fitness are higher, and your quality of character will be assessed challenged, and influenced regularly.

This is not to imply that the program is designed for attrition. On the contrary, the support and mentoring you will receive from upper-class Midshipmen, civilian staff, and active duty staff is an integral part of the program that enable you to succeed. Though it is possible to complete the program alone, the four-year NROTC program is designed to develop self-awareness and a recognition when to reach out for help, teamwork, and some sacrifice when it may be your turn to reach out and help a fellow Midshipman in need.

Recognize that as a NROTC Midshipmen, you are not a typical college student. More is expected of you now because more will be expected of you upon graduation and commissioning! The nature of your personal character will be imbued with this highest ideals of duty, honor, and loyalty. Unlike other students on campus, you are held to a higher standard.

More than 50 years ago, President Kennedy spoke to the incoming class at the United States Naval Academy, and I offer that his remarks resonate as strongly now as they did then:

I want to express our strong hope that all of you…will stay with the Navy. I can think of no more rewarding a career. You will have a chance in the next 10, 20, and 30 years to serve the cause of freedom and your country all over the globe, to hold positions of the highest responsibility, to recognize that upon your good judgment in many cases may well rest not only the well-being of the men with whom you serve, but also in a very real sense the security of your country.

I can imagine a no more rewarding career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worth while, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy." So I congratulate you all. This is a hard job, particularly now as you make the change, but I think it develops in you those qualities which we like to see in our country, which we take pride in. I am sure you are going to stay with it. I am sure you are going to be able, by what you are now going through, to find the means to command others.

2 BNCO’s Message

Incoming Class of 2022, Congratulations on your decision to become a part of the Marquette Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) Battalion. You are joining the ranks of hundreds of brilliant men and women who started their Navy and Marine Corps lives at Marquette since the unit’s induction in 1940. Marquette University offers a unique history with the NROTC program. Marquette NROTC was the twelfth unit to be instated and is today the only Jesuit University to directly host an NROTC program. From August 19th to August 25th, you will begin your training with New Student Orientation (NSO). NSO is meant to instill the beginnings of professional military development required of all Navy and Marine Corps Officers. You will PT, perform close order drill, complete team building exercises, and learn what it takes to be a full time midshipman and student. NSO will give you a strong base of knowledge from which you will continue learning throughout the fall semester and the remaining time up to your graduation and commission. This is just the first step of many you will take here on your four year journey. Get ready. NROTC is an adventure in every sense – it will present you with new and exciting (and possibly uncomfortable) situations, it will take you to far off places, it will give you the opportunity to do things you have never done before, and along the way you will meet many amazing people. So take advantage of this summer to prepare for the journey ahead of you. Run that extra mile. Crank out one more push up. Spend a little more time with your family and friends. Going away to college will be just as much of a change for them as it will be for you. I have enjoyed my time in NROTC and hope that you will as well. The time will go by fast. Realize that opportunities will not just be given to you. You will have to seek them out. Your experiences in life will only be what you make them to be. Get excited and enjoy the remainder of your summer. I look forward to meeting you this fall!

Very Respectfully,

MIDN 1/C Kinnunen MU NROTC, Battalion Commander Marquette University, 2018 College of Engineering

3 Table of Contents

NROTC AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY……………………………………….4 HISTORY OF NROTC……………………………………………………...4 MISSION……………………………………………………………………4 NROTC AT MARQUETTE………………………………………………...4 NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION (NSO)………………………………………...5 GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS………………………………………………5 PARENTS…………………………………………………………………...5 HOUSING FOR NSO……………………………………………………….5 WHAT TO EXPECT DURING NSO……………………………………….6 PHYSICAL FITNESS……………………………………………………….6 MEDICAL INSURANCE…………………………………………………...7 WHAT TO BRING FOR ORIENTATION………………………………....7 PAPERWORK CHECKLIST……………………………………………….8 ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS……………………………………………….8 TRAINING…………………………………………………………………………9 EDUCATION AND TRAINING BACKGROUND………………………..9 SERVICE OBLIGATION……………………………………….…………..9 TRAINING OPTIONS………………………………………………………9 NAVY OPTIONS………………………………………………………….10 MARINE OPTIONS……………………………………………………….10 NAVY NURSE OPTIONS………………………………………………...10 LIFE AS A MIDSHIPMAN………………………………………………..11 CONCLUSION…………………………………………………………….12

4 NROTC AT MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY

HISTORY OF NROTC NROTC AT MARQUETTE

The Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps Marquette University’s naval tradition began (NROTC) was first established in 1926 to in 1940 as the twelfth university to establish offer willing college students the an NROTC program. During World War II, background in the arts and sciences of Naval Marquette became an integral part of the Warfare necessary for a commission into the active duty establishment, instructing over United States Navy. In 1932, NROTC began seven hundred trainees in aviation, deck offering commissions into the United States supply, dentistry, the medical field, and Marine Corps and in 1990, NROTC began other areas. Today, Marquette University’s offering scholarships to nursing students NROTC unit trains students to commission seeking a commission into the Navy Nurse as officers into the United States Navy and Corps. Marine Corps.

Over 160 colleges and universities across Marquette University is one of the few the country now host or have a cross-town Catholic and specifically Jesuit universities affiliation with the NROTC program. to offer an NROTC program. This affords Graduates of NROTC programs are midshipmen who attend Marquette expected to be of a caliber comparable to University an opportunity to develop those of the U.S Naval Academy. themselves in the science and art of not only leadership, but also ethics and morality as MISSION guided by the Jesuit tradition. This campus has been very receptive of this program and The NROTC program’s mission today is to the midshipmen enjoy the benefits of being develop young men and women morally, both Marquette students and midshipmen. mentally, and physically, and to instill in them the highest ideals of honor, courage, and commitment. The program intends to commission college graduates as naval officers who possess a basic professional background, are motivated toward careers in the naval service, and have a potential for future development in mind and character so as to assume the highest responsibilities of command, citizenship and government.

5 NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS PARENTS

Marquette University Navy ROTC New Most students have their parents drive with Student Orientation (NSO) begins on them to NSO. We encourage parents to Saturday, August 19th, and ends on Friday, attend the Welcome Aboard Brief given by August 25th, before classes begin. Training our unit staff. The staff will be available will be held on Marquette’s campus. New throughout Saturday morning to answer any midshipmen will report to the unit at questions that parents may have. Marquette University for in-processing on Refreshments and snacks will also be the morning of Saturday, August 19th. provided. An NSO completion ceremony and the midshipman Oath of Office will be The address for the unit at Marquette to administered on Wednesday, August 23rd at which incoming freshmen will report is: 12:00 noon in the Old Gymnasium of the 1532 West Clybourn St. Milwaukee, WI unit. Parents are highly encouraged to attend 53233 this ceremony and swearing-in.

For a campus map, see enclosure (1). If you Schedule of events for in-processing on get lost or have any problems while Saturday, 19 August 2017: traveling, call (414) 288-7076 or (414) 288- 6032. For information on travel expenses 0800-0900: Freshmen arrive and check in at and reimbursement, see enclosure (2). the unit (Old Gymnasium) 0930: Welcome Aboard Brief to freshmen You should arrive in proper civilian and parents clothing. Males should arrive in a collared 1000: Freshmen depart to gym for gear issue shirt, khakis or slacks with a belt, and 1100: Parents-only Brief by CAPT dress shoes. Females should arrive in a Vandersluis followed by Q&A time for blouse and trousers or slacks with dress Parents with Staff shoes; no high heels. MECEP and Officer 1100: Freshmen begin their training Candidates will not attend NSO.

NSO is meant to be challenging but is not the equivalent of boot camp. It is not graded and you cannot fail. NSO will provide you with the tools for learning the basics of being a midshipman, as well as an introduction to the staff and your midshipmen peers who you will work with throughout your Navy or Marine Corps career.

6 HOUSING FOR NSO Freshmen will be introduced to PT (physical training), COD (close order drill), conduct Freshman will be staying in the NROTC swimming qualifications, and participate in unit spaces until their move-in date/time for team building exercises, amongst many the residence halls at Marquette. Upon other things. They will adapt to a new arrival to the unit for in-processing on lifestyle of time management beginning Saturday, August 19th, the unit will store Wednesday night and onward when any and all move-in boxes, clothes, and Marquette student orientation begins for all other belongings the freshmen may have. incoming students. Marquette freshmen will Freshmen will then be given assistance by attend all required Marquette University upper-class midshipmen to move their New Students Orientation events, from belongings into their dorms. August 24st to August 26th. NROTC NSO will continue through Marquette’s New Cross-town students (UW-Milwaukee or Students Orientation schedule. In the time MSOE): your dorms will not be available to that Marquette freshmen attend Marquette- move into until after NSO concludes. Unit specific events, cross-town students will and university spaces will be available to participate in additional instruction and house cross-town students overnight for recreation with upper-class midshipmen. NSO once the Marquette students have moved into their dorms. Upperclassmen and PHYSICAL FITNESS Staff will be available to help move your belongings into your dorm once it is One of the objectives of NSO is to expose available. you to the Navy’s Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) and Marine Corps’ WHAT TO EXPECT DURING Physical Fitness Test (PFT). The purpose of NSO the test during orientation is not to evaluate you for fitness in the program—it is Training will begin following gear issue on designed to show you how to run the test Monday morning. Different training prior to completing it with the other evolutions, briefs, and exercises will be midshipmen in the unit later in the fall. conducted on Marquette’s campus, and in Another objective of orientation is to have the Milwaukee area. Saturday through you participate in the Navy’s fitness Wednesday, freshmen will be housed in unit program, and encourage you to adopt and spaces. On Thursday, Marquette freshmen maintain a healthy lifestyle. The Navy and will be moved into their dorms where they Marine Corps both are highly demanding may then sleep that night and thereafter. and physically challenging careers and you UW-Milwaukee and MSOE freshmen will need to be able to perform to the level that be housed in unit and university spaces from will be expected. Thursday night onward until they can be moved into their dorms. Note: If you are not on scholarship, you need to be physically qualified by a recent

7 physician’s certification (sports physical) in c. Soap and Shampoo- 2 in 1 recommended order to participate in the physical portion d. Shaving cream of the NROTC New Student Orientation e. Razor-not electric Program 10. Shower shoes a. Conservative color. Cheap pair of plain MEDICAL INSURANCE black flip flops is ideal. 11. Appropriate undergarments for the entire Ensure that you fill out all of the paperwork week 12. Black shoe polish and return it to the unit. There is a checklist a. (1) torn, old t-shirt to be used for shining for all the paperwork that you will need to shoes return filled out in enclosure (4). It is very b. Do not get Parade Gloss as it will damage important that if you have medical and the leather shoes dental insurance you fill out the information 13. Incidental expense money ($75.00 so that if anything happens during NSO we recommended) can ensure that you get the treatment you 14. HAIRCUT conforming to Naval regulations See Navy and Marine Corps regulations need. a. provided 15. Hair gel/spray, and hair accessories that WHAT TO BRING FOR match hair color (females) ORIENTATION 16. Sunscreen (highly recommended) 17. State ID – Should be kept accessible, as it 1. (4) Light grey crew neck T-Shirts will be required to get a Marquette ID card. 2. (4) White crew neck T-Shirts (Will not be 18. Glasses (if needed) - contacts will be needed for NSO, but are required to be worn permitted for most of NSO but not for some underneath uniforms during the semester) training evolutions. A cheap pair of black 3. (5) pairs of white athletic socks (at least) glasses straps are highly recommended for a. No logo or wording shall be visible on the those wearing glasses. athletic socks when running shoes are worn. 19. Proof of health insurance This includes small logos like the Nike 20. Other paper work items “swoosh” or Adidas stripes. 4. Swimsuit a. (Males) Conservative, black/navy blue swim trunks b. (Females) Conservative color, one-piece swimsuit 5. Towel and washcloth PAPERWORK CHECKLIST a. Conservative color and style 6. (1) Pair of running shoes Turn in the following documents to the 7. Athletic Bras (females) a. Plain conservative color NROTC Unit as soon as possible: 8. Athletic shorts – they will be worn while working outside All Incoming 4/C Midshipmen 9. Toiletries 1. Copy of Birth Certificate a. Toothbrush-not electric 2. OPMIS Check-In Sheet b. Toothpaste

8 3. Standard Release Form 4. Emergency Data Form & Immunizations Form 5. College Program Application (for those who are not scholarship) 6. Clothing Questionnaire -Due 30JUN2017 7. Physical training program acknowledgment of risk

Scholarship Students Only 1. Direct Deposit Sign-Up Form

College Program Students Only 1. College Program Application 2. Report of Medical History 3. Report of Medical Examination 4. Annual Physical Form

Cross Town Students Only 1. Cross-Town ROTC Application

Deliver or send to: LT Tanner Poach Marquette University NROTC 1532 West Clybourn St. Milwaukee, WI 53233 Fax (414)288-7078

These forms are due on 31JUL2017 You can find more details on these forms in Enclosure (4) ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS EDUCATION AND

If you have any questions regarding the TRAINING BACKGROUND NROTC Program or the New Student The NROTC is a comprehensive program Orientation at, please feel free to contact us intended to prepare midshipmen for by letter, phone, or visit the office. Our commissioning as officers into the Navy or phone number is (414) 288-5141. We look Marine Corps. The program includes forward to meeting you.

9 university degree studies, Naval Science, year active duty obligation. Certain other Navy-specified courses, military drill, specialized programs, including aviation and summer active duty training periods, and submarine training, incur additional service extracurricular activities. During the obligations. Welcome Aboard Brief, the unit staff will go into more detail on the NROTC program. TRAINING OPTIONS

While in the NROTC unit, you will be There are two ways to enter the NROTC evaluated on your academic performance, program, via scholarship or as a college your aptitude, ability to meet physical programmer. Scholarship midshipmen readiness standards, mental attitude, and compete nationally for an NROTC motivation for naval service. These scholarship. College programmers are evaluations are very important, for they, in midshipmen who are not on scholarship but conjunction with your university grade point are just as much members of the battalion as average, will determine your NROTC class full scholarship midshipmen. They compete standing. Your class standing or ranking will for an NROTC three or two year scholarship directly affect not only your summer or for a position of advanced standing. training options, but also your chance of Those individuals who do not receive one of being assigned the duty you desire upon these benefits before the end of their graduation. sophomore year will be disenrolled from the program. If you experience academic or aptitude difficulties, immediately contact your In NROTC there are two branches of service NROTC class advisor and, as appropriate, represented: the United States Navy and the contact your university advisor for United States Marine Corps. Midshipmen consultation and assistance. By quickly who desire to be commissioned in the Navy recognizing a potential problem area, all are referred to as Navy Options and concerned will be able to better help you. midshipmen who desire to be commissioned in the Marine Corps are referred to as Marine Options. Midshipmen must pick which branch they wish to serve in prior to arrival. There are two separate scholarship applications and there are very different processes of application. Midshipmen may laterally transfer into the other branch but SERVICE OBLIGATION they must drop their scholarship if they possess one and compete for one in the other Upon completing the NROTC Program and program. Each option has different obtaining a commission, all Navy requirements, as summarized below. midshipmen incur a minimum five year active duty obligation. All Nurse and Marine NAVY OPTIONS Option midshipmen incur a minimum four

10 The Navy places a high value on academics movement to contact, ammo can raises, and for Navy Options. All Navy Options are a movement-under-fire portion. Each required to take Calculus 1&2 as well as Marine Option is required to achieve a score Physics 1&2 regardless of their major. There above 225 on either test. The scoring for the is a heavy emphasis on technical majors for PFT can be found in enclosure (5). The CFT Navy midshipmen. Navy Options take a will be explained more in depth once the class taught by a member of the unit staff semester begins. Marine Options must pass every semester. These classes cover topics Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in ranging from sea power and maritime the summer between their Junior and Senior affairs, to ship and weapons systems, to years in order to commission. Marine navigation, to leadership training. Navy Options can commission into most any Options are required to attend two Physical Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) Training sessions (PT’s) per week. Navy within the Marine Corps. However, they do Options conduct a Physical Readiness Test not compete for nor select their individual (PRT) which consists of a 1.5 mile run, sit MOS until after they complete The Basic ups, and push-ups. Each midshipman is School after they commission. required to achieve a score of good or higher to pass the test. The scoring guide can be NAVY NURSE OPTIONS found in enclosure (5). Navy Options The nursing profession is centered on commission into one of five communities of holistically supporting a patient in their service. The five communities are Aviation, human response to illness. This type of care Nursing, Special Warfare, the Submarine is specific to a nurse and requires dedication force, and Surface Warfare. to studies and clinical cases. Rigorous MARINE OPTIONS course work, including biochemistry, anatomy, and pharmacology, is included in The nature of the Marine Corps dictates that this major. While participating in all normal future Second Lieutenants be not just Navy Option duties like PT and drill, Nurse physically strong but mentally strong as Options have additional requirements within well. They take classes with the unit the battalion. Nurse Options use their including sea power and maritime affairs, medical knowledge to support the Marine amphibious warfare, evolution of warfare, Options during their training evolutions as and leadership training. Marine Options are well as the entire battalion during physical required to attend three PT sessions per training. This is an opportunity for Navy week as well as occasional Officer nursing students to test their theory-based Candidate School Preparation (Bulldog) skills in a practical setting. Nurse Options events throughout the year. Marine Options complete over 1,000 hours of clinical care run both the Physical Fitness Test (PFT) and during their time in the college. Unlike other the Combat Fitness Test (CFT). The PFT nursing students, Navy Nurse Options are consists of a 3 mile run, pull ups, and able to continue this care during the crunches. The CFT consists of an 800 meter summers on Naval ships and hospitals

11 across the world. After NROTC, Navy it has valuable information on what classes Nurses will take the NCLEX and be sent to to register for and not register for. their first duty station, typically a large Naval hospital. The bearing, discipline, and Every day, midshipmen are expected to moral code learned through NROTC allows uphold the standards of the Navy and nursing students to be undoubtedly effective Marine Corps. This entails keeping haircuts Navy Nurses upon graduation. within regulations as well as, for males, being clean shaven every day. Midshipmen LIFE AS A MIDSHIPMAN are expected to know the general knowledge they are taught during NSO. Enclosure (6) is PT begins at 0530 in the unit on Mondays a knowledge packet to help midshipmen and Wednesdays with an additional PT for study in preparation for their NSO. This also Marine Options on Friday mornings. All 4/C requires midshipmen to adhere to a dress midshipmen are required to take code even when they are in civilian clothes. Introduction to Naval Science (NASC 1009) This dress code is designated as ACA or their first semester. This is a two credit class “Appropriate Civilian Attire”. There are a that covers knowledge on the organization lot of nuances to these rules and each of the Navy and Marine Corps that is midshipman will learn them in depth. There essential for every midshipman. Ensure that is a guide attached for a quick review of the you plan this class as well as colors and rules (see enclosure 7). These high standards Drill into your class schedules. The NROTC to which we hold ourselves do not just apply unit is responsible for doing colors on to our appearance, they also apply to our Tuesdays and Thursdays. The responsibility behavior. Midshipmen are not permitted to for this rotates through the battalion. If jay-walk in uniform. Also, 4/C midshipmen possible, 4/C midshipmen are encouraged to need to understand that underage drinking is avoid classes around 0800 and 1600 on a violation of the law and is not dealt with Tuesdays and Thursdays. On Thursdays, the lightly. Drinking violations are a serious whole battalion wears our uniforms, attends offense that can severely jeopardize a normal classes, and also holds a drill period midshipman’s chance of obtaining or from 1530 to 1730. This drill period is retaining an NROTC scholarship. The Navy where the whole battalion gathers to receive and Marine Corps also has a zero tolerance briefs and perform other training functions policy for drug use. as required by the Navy. Drill is worked into the class registration process. Incoming 4/C It is also encouraged that each midshipman need to sign up for the drill period by have access to some funds in order to registering for the NASC 1001 class, Drill prepare for incidental costs. This is and Information Briefing (Lecture, 0 especially important for midshipmen who credits). All incoming students need to read are not on scholarship. Dry cleaning, and follow the direction given in the letter purchase of ball tickets, and acquisition of from the freshman advisor that is enclosed extra gear are all costs that can add up along with this Welcome Aboard package as quickly.

12 CONCLUSION full support and commitment. You are encouraged to remain focused and The NROTC staff at Marquette University is determined and to never lose sight of the dedicated to developing high quality Naval noble and rewarding profession you have and Marine Corps Officers. You are about to chosen to pursue. Welcome aboard! begin an exciting and challenging journey. You can be assured that you will have our