Senior (MS4) Year

The senior year doesn't count a lot toward your accessions process or your branch choice, however, you will be responsible for training your cadets for THEIR accessions process. Most of what you are doing for yourself is related to preparing for commissioning and heading off to BOLC followed by your branch training.You will find out, usually during the middle of the fall semester, what branch you received and whether you were selected for active or reserve duty. You generally won't get your orders till near graduation. Don't stop a job or anything like that till you have orders, but be prepared to leave within as little as a week of getting your orders. As soon as you get your orders go to the move.mil site and start getting your move to your new duty station scheduled. The Army moves like molasses and will take a MINIMUM of three weeks to get it processed. It stinks being at your new duty station without any of your stuff. Trust me, I speak from experience! Prior to commissioning you will need a new ASU outfit. The best placed to get it from is Marlow White. They have packages specially designed for new commissionees. Something else worth mentioning; you can get your CAC card while you are still back at your school or you can get it when you reach your first duty station which will be Fort Rucker. There are a lot of other nuances but trying to cover them exhaustively would be nearly impossible. The areas mentioned here will at least get you started on the right path and may keep you from some of the areas I had trouble with.