Summer Training Overview

In addition to academic year requirements, midshipmen must also devote approximately one month of their summers to hands-on training with the United States Navy and Marine Corps. Midshipmen consider this the highlight of the year, as they travel to various locales, both national and international, and become fully integrated into the Navy and Marine Corps team.

Career Orientation Training for Midshipmen (CORTRAMID)

In the summer after your freshman year, you will attend your first summer training. CORTRAMID is conducted at shore training sites on the East and West Coasts of the U.S. The training is intended to familiarize midshipmen with the missions, tasks, and equipment of the various warfare areas: Surface, Submarine, Aviation, and Marine Corps. Midshipmen spend one week learning about each of the warfare areas.

Second Class Training

We consider the summer after your sophomore year to be the most important in terms of your development as an officer. During Second Class Training, Navy Option Midshipmen are fully integrated into the shipboard organization and are assigned the duties of middle level enlisted personnel regularly assigned to Navy commands.

First Class Training

First Class Training occurs in the summer after your junior year. Like the summer before, you will become of a part of the ship's crew, this time assigned duties similar to those you will receive upon commissioning as a junior officer. First Class summer training is required of all Midshipmen and Marines before they can be commissioned.

Nurse Option Training

For those students in the Navy Nurse program, summer training differ slightly. The summer after freshman year will be spent aboard a Navy surface ship, integrated into the Medical Department. In the summer after junior year, Nurse options receive training at one of a number of shore-based hospitals and Naval Medical Centers.

Marine Option Training

As a Marine Option midshipman, your summer training differs slightly from that of your Navy Option counterparts. Successful completion of Officer Candidate School (OCS/BULLDOG) is required of all Marines before commissioning.

Specialty Training

In addition to the summer training described above, qualified midshipmen can compete for limited spots in a number of unique specialty cruises.