This year we will be commissioning nine midshipmen and officer candidates as ensigns in the Navy and three midshipmen and enlisted marines as 2nd lieutenants in the United States Marine Corps. Everyone is welcome to watch the ceremony, which will involve the oath of office, assistance into uniform by the students’ families, rendering of the first salute, and remarks from our guest speaker Vice Admiral Kelly Aeschbach (Ret).

The NROTC program was established to develop midshipmen morally, mentally and physically; and to imbue them with the highest ideals of duty, loyalty and the core values of honor, courage and commitment in order to commission college graduates as naval officers. The program enables qualified young people to attain a college education leading to a commission in the Navy or Marine Corps, and offers scholarship and non-scholarship opportunities for future Navy and Marine Corps officers.

Oregon State’s NROTC program is a leading commissioning source. They commission Navy officers in all unrestricted line communities, including naval aviation, submarines, surface warfare and naval special warfare. Marine option students commission in aviation, ground combat and logistics.