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Responsibilities

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Applicant's Primary Point of Contact
• Application and nomination
guidance
• Assist with problem
resolution
• Admissions brief/interview
Outreach and Marketing (as applicable)
• School visits
• College fairs
• Midshipman hometown
visit coordination
• Awards presentations
Congressional liaison (as applicable)

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Volunteer �ield representatives of the
Department of Admissions.

Encourage/guide exceptional individuals to seek a Naval career through
the Naval Academy.
Provide counseling/information to
candidates/applicants.

Prior service or graduation from the
Naval Academy are not prerequisites.

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Funded travel to Annapolis for
training.
Drill credits for Reservists (SELRES
and/or VTU)
Networking opportunities within
your community
Give back to USNA
Work with the nation's best and
brightest (renew your faith in the
next generation!)

U.S. Naval Academy

To develop Midshipmen morally,
mentally and physically...

Process for Becoming a
USNA Blue & Gold Officer (BGO)
Application

Volunteer

BGO Liaison Office
(BGOLO) emails the
Application to the new
Volunteer

Alumni, Parent, Active
Duty, Reservist,
Educator, “USNA
supporter” – “an
energetic adult, with a
sincere interest in
fulfilling the mission of
USNA”

BGO Area Coordinator
list available at
usna.edu/Admissions/BGO

Naval Academy Mission
"To develop midshipmen morally, mentally
and physically, and to imbue them with the
highest ideals of duty, honor and loyalty in
order to graduate leaders who are dedicated
to a career of naval service and have potential
for future development in mind and character
to assume the highest responsibilities of
command, citizenship and government."

Naval Academy Information Program
"To market the opportunities available at the
United States Naval Academy and to identify,
recruit, and counsel young men and women of
all backgrounds who possess the
potential to develop morally, mentally, and
physically into the nation’s future Naval,
government, and civilian leaders.”

Contact the BGO Area
Coordinator (AC) in
your State (or Zip Code)
– completes an initial
interview and provides
a recommendation to
Candidate Guidance
Office (CGO) via BGO
Liaison Office
Contact CGO via
BGO Liaison Office
410-293-1813

New Volunteer
completes the
Application – forwards
to AC

AC reviews – if
endorses, forwards
Application to BGOLO

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CGO reviews/accepts
new Volunteer for the
BGO Program

Become a BGO
1.

Contact the Area Coordinator (AC)
in your area or USNA Admissions

https://www.usna.edu/Admissions/BGO.php

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Complete the BGO Application
Complete self study & open book
examination
Work with your AC and/or mentor
BGO
Attend formal training at USNA

Note: For Reservists: Request and receive
additional duty (ADDU) orders after
qualifying as a BGO

Open Book
Exam
BGOLO forwards the
Open Book Exam to the
new Volunteer
New Volunteer
completes the Open
Book Exam – returns to
BGOLO
BGOLO grades Exam
* If corrections are
required, return to new
Volunteer
* If Exam is successfully
passed – designate an
Affiliate

Designated an
“Affiliate”

Initial
Training
AC assigns a mentor
BGO and begins local
“on the job training” for
the new Affiliate
Affiliate must attend –
INITIAL TRAINING –
“Summer Training” at
USNA (in July) --- within
2 years of becoming an
Affiliate
Upon completing Initial
Training – Designated a
Blue & Gold Officer
(BGO)
AC assign BGO local
High Schools and
Candidates

Designated a
“BGO”

Refresher
Training
BGOs must attend

REFRESHER

TRAINING at least
every 5 years
Refresher Training
requirement may be
fulfilled by attending
local training provided
by USNA Admissions,
Webinar Training, or
by repeating Summer
Training, on a space
available basis.
ACs will receive
refresher training at
biennial AC Training.