Wow, really really frustrated now. I flew down to California last week, in large part to finish up this stupid process. I spoke to the recruiter a few days ago and he once again, informed me I wasn't a priority and wouldn't be submitted until the next month. I had a nice long chat with him about hearing the boards might be cancelled for the rest of the year and he told me he had heard nothing about this being a possibility. This amuses me because he told me this ~6/22 or so... When apparently everyone on this site already knows the real deal? Getting more and more irritated.
Regardless, he told me that everything was sent out by the deadline, but he doens't know if it was accepted. Is that normal?
Seeing the process in action, I am really getting frustrated. I don't see any reason why my packet was pushed back upwards of three months now. Actually, strike that, I do. The lack of organization I was seeing was appalling. I even went through MEPS yesterday and don't know why. I felt like an idiot because my packet wasn't even sent out. However, I passed all the tests it looks like. I am what they call a picket fence.
In the off chance my packet went out and there are boards, here is my stuff:
SNA
3.07 GPA from CSUS in Communications
7/8/8 63
LOR: HR Director at previous job, FAA regional director of Alaska, 0-1 old fraternity president, and previous employer
Extensive foreign travel experience
Going through this process is really opening my eyes. I love how the military and the world in general wants "experienced" people, but in actuality, they don't. Having traveled outside the country was just a big hassle in filling out paperwork. Having actually admitted smoking marijuana (10 times in my life) appears to be a stupid idea, regardless of the fact that something like 90%+ of the population has done it. It appears that squeeky clean is the only way to be.
Bleh, anyway, I wanted to mention a couple things I DID hear/experience that were interesting:
1.) Recruiter told me that he has never had a SNA applicant NOT accepted who had scored a 60+ OAR score. He has been doing officer recruiting for less than a year at this point, but still, good to know.
2.) The Capt. leading the MEPS exeperience and I spoke briefly ( I was the only OCS applicant out of 40+) and told me that OCS was extremely competitive and make sure I was physically on the ball. She said that scoring a 100 on the PRT throughout was important to my success.
3.) When going through MEPS, make sure you mention that you are an aviation applicant. I happened to mention this is passing to someone and they said, "Hold up" and looked through my documents and noticed I had not taken the depth perception test.
Well, looks like I will end up in the September board. The one bright spot in all of this is that my application is done. No tweaks needed, so I can tell my recruiter I want it sent out the first week of September and shouldn't hear any flak from it.
