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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