Each summer, between classes, you will take part in one or more summer training cruises. This is a unique opportunity to spend four to six weeks each year stationed aboard ships or submarines, with aircraft squadrons or in the field with Marine Corps units. Summer cruises are designed to further your professional development by introducing you to the operational Navy and Marine Corps, to get a taste of military life while reinforcing your Naval Science courses and painting a clearer picture to help you choose your future career path.

How often does a 19-year-old college student get the opportunity to fly in the Navy's most advanced jet fighter—the F/A-18 Hornet? Or, to dive underwater in a nuclear-powered submarine? Or to land in a jet on a multi-billion dollar aircraft carrier? These are just a few of the summer cruise opportunities available to Tulane NROTC Midshipmen.

CORTRAMID
The summer following your freshman year, you will attend a career orientation training cruise called CORTRAMID. This four week "cruise" will familiarize you with each of the four major unrestricted line career opportunities you will be selecting during your senior year. You will spend a week in each warfare community: aviation, surface warfare, submarine warfare, and the Marine Corps. You will get hands-on experience aboard ships, submarines, and aircraft, and will even participate in an amphibious landing and a helicopter-borne urban assault with the Marines.

Second-Class Cruise
During the summer following your sophomore year, you will spend four weeks aboard a ship or submarine learning about the jobs and responsibilities of the Navy and Marine Corps' enlisted personnel. These cruises may take you anywhere in the world.

First-Class Cruise
During the summer after your junior year, you will again go aboard a ship, submarine, or be attached to an aviation squadron to experience life as a junior officer. A few Midshipmen will have the opportunity to represent the United States Navy on foreign-exchange cruises, serving with a number of foreign navy vessels.

Marine Officer Candidate School (OCS) or "Bulldog"
In lieu of a First Class Cruise, Marine Option midshipmen will spend the summer following their junior year at a six-week Officer Candidate School (Bulldog) in Quantico, Virginia.

Summer Cruise Request Form
Midshipman Summer Training Handbook (Coming soon)
Bulldog Handbook (Coming soon)
Summer Cruise Brief (Coming soon)