[J. L. Chamberlain]

Most folks enter the Navy as "reservists", thus the USNR designation. In the officer corps, only those ring bangers and a very select few docs going though OIC get USN designation.

Converting from USNR to USN is pretty hard. "Augmentation" is done by board review and not all that often.

I went through OCS with a guy who came from the fleet and lost his USN designation when he joined the officer corps. He got totally screwed and sent packing in the draw-down in '93.

J

[kabar]

You could also receive a regular commission through the NROTC scholarship program.