The U.S. Navy Finance Center, Cleveland, OH, maintains the Scholarship Program midshipmen's military pay records. Midshipmen also receive this pay during the summer between their Junior and Senior years. The Administration Department distributes pay checks monthly. Travel pay and per diem for cruise are at the current travel and per diem rates from school or home of record to the port of embarkation and return. Active duty pay is provided for all Scholarship midshipmen on cruise.
Subsistence is provided in kind without charge.
It mails the advance payments to the CO for distribution before training. Midshipmen submit a travel claim to the final training activity disbursing officers before their departure from summer training. If additional expenses are incurred by midshipmen during their return trip, the midshipmen may submit a supplemental claim that should be submitted with the package of training orders and the copy of the previously paid travel request as discussed above. College Program Midshipmen. College Program midshipmen ordered to their first class cruise draw cruise pay begin-ning on the date reporting to cruise duty station and ending on the date of detachment.