• Must be Year Group Primary ’07, ’08, '09, or '10
• Must be branch qualified for promotion to Major NLT May 2015

• Current and incoming instructors represent all the commissioning sources (OCS, ROTC, USMA) and IN, TC, AV, FA, AD, MP, FI, QM, AG, SF, AR and MI branches. DPE instructors have a variety of undergraduate degrees (including physical education, exercise science, and kinesiology) and come from diverse ethnic backgrounds.
• Current DPE instructors have been promoted early (BZ) to Major at a rate above the Army average.
• Current and incoming DPE instructors have combat/operational-deployment leadership experience.
• Active-duty or recently retired General Officers who taught in DPE:
• GEN (R) Larry R. Ellis (former Commanding General, United States Forces Command, Fort McPherson, GA)
• LTG (R) James L. Campbell (former Special Assistant to the Vice Chief of Staff, Office of the Chief of Staff, United States Army Pentagon)
• GEN (R) Franklin L. Hagenbeck (former Superintendent, United States Military Academy)
• LTG (R) James J. Lovelace, Jr. (former Commanding General, US Army Central, Third Army, and Land Component Command, United States Army Pentagon)
• LTG (R) David P. Valcourt (former Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff, TRADOC)
• MG (R) Charles A. Anderson (former Commanding General, First Army Division – West, Fort Hood, TX)
• LTG Mark P. Hertling (Commanding General, US Army Europe and Seventh Army, APO AE)

• Aerobic Fitness
• Alpine Skiing
• Cross Country Skiing
• Golf
• Basketball
• Volleyball
• SCUBA
• Strength Development
• Cycling
• Advanced Combatives

Assignment to teach elective courses is based upon departmental needs, individuals strengths/experience, and interest.

Q: I am currently (or will be) deployed and physically cannot get the application completed by the deadline - can I have an extension to the application deadline?
A: If requested in writing (a brief memo is fine), we will definitely consider incomplete applications of deployed personnel. We understand that deploying and preparing to deploy should be your priority, but we still encourage you to quickly complete as much of the application as you can. Though we will consider files with missing items from our deployed candidates, past applicants have, through prior planning, found a way to submit needed items from their combat postings. The Recruiting Officer is poised to help you complete your packet and have it in prime condition for the board.

Q: What is the application timeline for this year’s selection cycle?
A:

• NLT 1 December 2013: Complete application due
• January 2014: Selection Board convenes
• NLT 1 March 2014: Selections/acceptances announced for June 2015 start dates
• April-September 2014: USMA seeks/receives official by-name approval for these officers from Army HRC and your branch
• July-December 2014: Incoming Instructors apply to graduate schools
• May-June 2015: Instructors PCS to their grad school locations and start their 1-yr Masters program
• May-June 2016: Instructors graduate from their programs and PCS to USMA

Q: Are officers eligible to leave West Point after two years as an instructor (instead of the normal three)?
A: Historically, some officers who are promoted below the zone (BZ) to Major have been given the option to PCS after two years as an instructor. However, all others serve a three-year utilization tour.

Q: What is housing like at USMA for Captains?
A: For this year's (2013) Captain Cohort, every captain who came to USMA (from all departments) with dependents who wanted a house on post received one. USMA has either built new or completely renovated five on-post neighborhoods for Captains/Majors within the last five years (New Brick, Old Brick, Grey Ghost, Stony Lonesome I, and Stoney Lonesome II), so the housing situation is predicted to remain very favorable. Officers may also choose to live off-post. 

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1. Officer Record Brief
2. All Officer Evaluation Reports
3. Official DA Photograph (add photo to main W.E.S.T. page)
4. Letters of Recommendation (3) (address to COL Gregory L. Daniels, Director, Department of Physical Education, USMA, West Point, NY 10996)
5. University Transcripts
6. GRE Scores (Must be within 5 years of the start of graduate school. Also, if you have completed a graduate degree on your own from May 2009 forward, you do not need GRE scores for your packet. Just send all transcripts.)
7. Copy of APFT Scores (as many as possible)
8. Resume of background in physical education/sports (bullet format)
9. Short Essay - at a minimum answering the following questions:
   1. In order to commit to a full 3-year utilization tour to DPE after graduate school, what is your plan for ILE?
   2. Why do you want to be a DPE instructor at USMA?
   3. What unique strengths would you contribute to enhance the Department, specifically what committees do you think you are best suited to enhance and why (military movement (gymnastics), boxing, aquatics, and/or combatives)?
   4. As a DPE Sport Educator, for which types of intramural programs do you think you are best suited to enhance our competitive sports program?
   5. What are your long-term goals, and how does a teaching assignment in DPE contribute to those goals?

1. Graduate Record Examination (GRE) Scores (Must not be more than 5 years old.)

2. Letter(s) of Acceptance (Must include each item listed below. If not in original letter, request a supplemental letter from the school/department that does include this information.)

•Name of officer being accepted
•Statement offering admission to the school
•Tuition Information (resident or non-resident and cost per semester)
•Degree to be obtained (MA, MS, Ph.D., JD, LLM, etc.)
•Department and discipline to which admitted
•Registration and class start dates
•Inclusive dates of the officer's program of study
•Expected graduation date
•Length of academic program (i.e. 33 semester hours or 18 months or 3 semesters)
•Required prerequisites (if any) and if they can be taken concurrently with the program, or must they be taken prior to official acceptance into the graduate program

3. Transcripts (undergraduate and graduate, if applicable)

4. DA Form 1618 (Must list all three schools - email PureEdge form if digitally signed, but must parcel mail original if manually signed)

5. Letter of Intent to Seek In-State Tuition (can be digitally or manually signed, scanned, and emailed)

6. Waiver requests (can be digitally or manually signed, scanned, and emailed):  Waivers are in memorandum format and state why the officer should receive an exception (i.e. for low GRE or GPA, inability to take GRE due to combat deployment, etc.) and plans, if any, in place to negate currently requested waivers (i.e. retaking GRE in JAN 2014, will be returning from deployment in JAN 2014 and will take GRE upon redeployment, etc).

• University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
• Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
• Texas A&M University (College Station, TX)

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