{"id":36,"date":"2006-03-10T19:59:31","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T19:59:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ADSO Program Results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"ADSO Program Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Reprinted with permission from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.west-point.org\/wp\/wp-forum\/\" target=\"_blank\">wp-forum<\/a>:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>By now, most of the members of this forum will have heard about the Army G1&#8217;s three incentive programs to strengthen officer retention.&nbsp; The first offers cadets, both USMA and ROTC, the opportunity to attend graduate school at government expense in exchange for an active duty service obligation (ADSO) of eight years.&nbsp; The second gives cadets the chance to select branches they might otherwise not have gotten; again, the cost is an eight-year ADSO.&nbsp; The third allows cadets to choose posts for additional ADSO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Here are the results for the USMA Class of 2006: &nbsp;a total of 331 cadets will have eight-year active-duty obligations.&nbsp; That&#8217;s 38% of the 878 who will be commissioned into the Army.&nbsp; 236 took the graduate school for additional service option; 61 participated in branch for service; and 34 cadets got their choice of post for ADSO.<br \/><\/strong><br \/>I understand that the graduate-school-for-ADSO program will also be offered to junior officers, but I don&#8217;t know which year groups will be involved.<\/div>\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reprinted with permission from the wp-forum: By now, most of the members of this forum will have heard about the Army G1&#8217;s three incentive programs to strengthen officer retention.&nbsp; The first offers cadets, both USMA and ROTC, the opportunity to attend graduate school at government expense in exchange for an active duty service obligation (ADSO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.west-point.org\/class\/usma1989\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}