Are NROTC candidates in the Marine Option allowed to wear the MARPAT uniform outside of class?

Question

I know the uniform regulation for reserve and active duty Marines pretty much prohibits the use of the Utilities off a military installation, but a friend of mine saw a guy in the NROTC Marine program walking around town in his Woodland MARPAT uniform.

Answer 1

Noooooooooooo absolutely not!

The regulations are the same from NROTC to Active Duty when it comes to that.

He probably didn't know the rules...or just didn't care.

Answer 2

No. There are some exceptions though: if he had an emergency like if he ran out of gas in his car and he needed to walk to the gas station or if he was on his way to work/from work in a P.O.V. There is another exception as well for those participating in certain recruiting activities where a combat utility uniform is more appropriate. For example, when I was on RA with my recruiter and other Marines at a college, we had to set up a boot and a portable obstacle course (the ones that use a generator to pump air into so ppl can run, climb and crawl through) at a college. If we wore our dress blue D, they would have gotten dirty and torn from lifting, etc, so the recruiting command let us wear our woodland MARPAT uniform instead.