Applications are being accepted from qualified mid-career officers who want to serve in prestigious broadening assignments on the staff and faculty of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.
These instructor and tactical officer assignments, which are scheduled to begin in fiscal 2016, also provide officers with an opportunity to earn an advanced college degree.
Applications also are being accepted from majors and above who want to serve in several faculty positions coded for USMA professors (FA 47A) and Academy Professors (FA 47).
Officers who attend graduate school in preparation for a teaching assignment at West Point will incur an active-duty service obligation of three days for every day they spend in school.
Following school, officers will serve a two- or three-year utilization tour at the academy as an instructor with USMA's Academic Department Faculty or as a tactical officer in the Eisenhower Leadership Development Program.
For information about the academy academic departments, go to accesshttp://www.usma.edu/academics/departments/SitePages/Home.aspx.
The Eisenhower Leadership Development program is targeted at branch-qualified captains, or those soon to be qualified, captains, regardless of commissioning source, who want to serve as company tactical officers in the Brigade Tactical Department and USMA Preparatory School.
Tactical officers will be assigned to the West Point Student Detachment, with academic instruction divided between the academy and the Teacher's College of Columbia University.
Officers who are interested in a West Point assignments should access https://ams-external.usma.edu. All applications for such duty must be submitted through this site no later than Dec. 1.
Basic requirements for a West Point instructor assignment are:
• Officers seeking graduate school in conjunction with a West Point assignment must have four through 17 years of active federal commissioned service at time of entry into the advanced civilian schooling program. The target year groups are 2008, 2009 and 2010. The target year group for all other instructor assignments is 2009.
• Applicants must have an undergraduate grade point average of 2.5 or better with a special aptitude for the subject area to be taught. All master's level applicants must have Graduate Record Exam scores no older than five years in their graduate school nomination packet. Minimum GRE scores are 144 for quantitative, 153 verbal and 4.0 analytical, even if the applicant's preferred graduate school does not require GRE scores for admission.
Applications for FA 47 positions must be received by Dec. 8.
For specific details, consult MilPer Message 14-330, dated Nov. 17.
