Ive never seen anyone coordinate schools for an individual sailor outside of a career counselor. Even then, they don’t do much for you but make a call to the phone number listed in CANTRAC to fill the spot which could’ve been completed by the Sailor anyhow. I fully understand how vacancies work. And with 100 seats classing up every three weeks, that’s a lot of opportunity. As it stands, there’s still over 20 vacancies in the next class that convenes on 10 feb, and over 50 in the 03 mar class that I was made available for. Past that, it goes up even higher. I’ve been reading through threads in this website, and waiting 3-5 months for a FINSEL doesn’t seem out of the ordinary. What I do think is quite bizarre is that most don’t receive them or their orders until 2 weeks prior to convening? That’s an absurd amount of time to expect a PCS, especially when you’re an AD service member.
