For pilots you put down Maritime (P-3/E-6's), tailhook, or helo's at the end of primary.
P-3's and E-6's are two different selections, giving Navy SMA's a total of 4.
Maritime for P-3's and TACMO for E-6's.
Tailhook
Maritime
Rotary
TACMO
For pilots you put down Maritime (P-3/E-6's), tailhook, or helo's at the end of primary.
After searching around online, and in this sub-board, ive gotten mixed signals about this. Is it only the top graduate of your class that gets his/her choice of what Aircraft he/she wants to serve on? Or is it the top 10%? For the rest of the graduates, do they get like a.. wish list? And then based upon class ranking and Navy needs they assign you to your aircraft? Also, do NFO's have to go through like Aero 1, Aero 2, and that stuff?
Thanks, just a couple questions. Im leaning towards the NFO side of things..
Thanks, just a couple questions. Im leaning towards the NFO side of things..
Who picks NFO?! Didn't you watch Top Gun?
Not saying I don't trust the ENS rumor mill, but is do you have anything to back that up? Or from a real source? I've heard the whole "Whiting jet guys to Meridian and Corpus jet guys to Kingsville" thing to save on PCS costs, but that one is a bit harder to believe.
I think you guys are giving all the monitors/manpower bubbas WAY too much credit. You're all basically implying that they know what they're doing and are trying to save money through a logical thought process.
When I selected, I put Helos, tailhook meridian, p-3s. The stucon clerk would let us ask for the tailhook location but we couldn't put down more than one. Otherwise people would put do exactly like what Ducky said.
Yeah. Straight from CNATRA. Without going in to too much detail when I selected I asked why I didn't get P-3's when the two guys I knew from Corpus that week got much lower grades than I. I was told straight up, that it was because they were running out of PCS funds and didn't have the money to be PCS'ing guys at the end of the fiscal year. The key word in what I said was "sometimes" as in its really a crap shoot and you really have no control over how well the timing will work out for you. As far as the jet thing if you're really worrying about whether your going to get Merridian or Kingsville then you need to kick yourself in the fucking nuts. If you want jets and have the timing and luck to select them, then just be happy you got them and forget where they're sending you. As someone already said they have to PCS you no matter what for jets, so where you go has less to do with cost and more to do with manning at that location.
I think the biggest crapshoot I have seen so far was platform selection out of advanced. Only one guy in my group got his #1, with many getting #4 and #5 choices.
#4 or #5 choices out of Advanced?? How many things are there to pick from? I had though it was just Oceana or Lemoore at that point, until I found out Miramar is also an option. Are you also picking C's, D's(?), E's, F's, or G's at that point?