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Chapter 7:


Source of Commission

The USCG relies heavily on the U. S. Coast Guard Academy for its officer accessions. The USCG gets more than 80 percent of its new officers from its Academy and Officer Candidate School as compared to less than half that (39 percent) for DoD as a whole, as shown in Table 7.6. This large difference can be at least partially explained by the fact that the USCG does not have an ROTC program. The fact that an even greater proportion of the USCG officer corps compared to USCG officer accessions were academy graduates is an indication that the retention rate for graduates is higher than for the other sources of officers.


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