Officer candidate training program: members enrolled from Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; appointment as midshipmen; pay; allowances; commissioning

§ 6904. Officer candidate training program: members enrolled from Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps; appointment as midshipmen; pay; allowances; commissioning (a) The Secretary of the Navy may enroll in the officer candidate training program and appoint as a midshipman in the Naval Reserve any eligible member of the Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps who will be under 25 years of age on June 30 of the calendar year in 422 which he is eligible under this section for appointment as an ensign in the Regular Navy or as a second lieutenant in the Regular Marine Corps. (b) Except while on active duty, a midshipman appointed under this section is entitled to retainer pay until the completion of instruction under this section, but for not more than four academic years, at the rate of $50 a month beginning on the day that he starts his first term of college work under this section. (c) A midshipman appointed under this section is entitled to the game allowances as are provided for midshipmen at the Naval Academy for— (1) initial travel to the college or university in which matriculated; (2) travel while under orders; and (3) travel on discharge. However, no allowance for travel on discharge may be paid to a discharged midshipman who continues his scholastic instruction in the same college or university. (d) Upon satisfactorily completing the academic and naval science requirements of the four-year Naval Reserve Officers’ Training Corps course, a midshipman may be appointed to the active list of the Navy in the grade of ensign or to the active list of the Marine Corps in the grade of second lieutenant. Such an appointment to the active list of the Navy may be in the line, the Supply Corps, the Civil Engineer Corps, or the Medical Service Corps. (e) The date of rank of officers appointed under this section in any year is the date of graduation of midshipmen from the Naval Academy in that year. Selection for appointment in a staff corps under this section shall be made by a board of commissioned officers in the staff corps concerned.