Perfect, thanks. That's just the answer I was looking for. Do you know if it was just helo guys that went from 7 to 8? Was it VP as well?My initial orders back in 2002 said 7yrs for RW. It hasn't been 6 as long as I've been around. Somewhere in between graduation and final winging it went to 8 for all aviators. As an 8yr guy I had my IZ look and FOS during the FY13 board, so this isn't something new this year.
I commissioned the YG after Pags, and was in Primary during the same timeframe. My initial orders out of ROTC show an 8 year commitment on both, and I was in zone on the CY12 and 13 boards. Looked in the NAVADMIN/ALNAV libraries for the early 2000's up to '03 and could see anything there. Maybe it got purged when they scrubbed those for PII.
Perfect, thanks. That's just the answer I was looking for. Do you know if it was just helo guys that went from 7 to 8? Was it VP as well?
Yes, but the standard 8 year active/reserve commitment is not what's addressed in my orders. My initial post-ROTC orders explicitly state a winging commitment of Wings+8 for both rotary and fixed wing in the text. As opposed to Pags's, which apparently don't. So sometime between his 2002 date and my summer 2003 date is where the documentation will lie, wherever it is.Everyone, regardless of your winging commitment, gets 8 year commitment orders, even SWOs. He's asking about Winging commitment/orders.
Why did it change?
Yes, everyone went to Wings +8 (for Navy SNAs).