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OCS SWO Board 10 Feb 20

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exNavyOffRec

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R.Dougie said:
Let’s look at 2 people:

23 year old no kids no spouse joining out of college
35 year old with family with 12 years of enlisted service applying for a commission

which one is more likely to do 10+ years of commissioned service?
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I see this a lot. The 20 something JO makes LT and gets out.
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I have personally know many who were prior enlisted and then were commissioned, either via OCS programs or LDO/CWO and only 2 of them stayed past 20 years of service and continued to serve after their obligation was complete to retire as an officer, both of them I had met AFTER they had passed 20 years of service and had exceeded their obligation.

The number of prior enlisted that desire or try to stay past their earliest retirement date is much smaller than you all believe, that is why some communities started putting limits on how much AD time a person can have, I would venture to say the increase in age is more about people joining the service at a later age rather than allowing those with lots of AD time to become an officer later.
 
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1812TC

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NavyOffRec said:
I see this a lot. The 20 something JO makes LT and gets out.
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I have personally know many who were prior enlisted and then were commissioned, either via OCS programs or LDO/CWO and only 2 of them stayed past 20 years of service and continued to serve after their obligation was complete to retire as an officer, both of them I had met AFTER they had passed 20 years of service and had exceeded their obligation.

The number of prior enlisted that desire or try to stay past their earliest retirement date is much smaller than you all believe, that is why some communities started putting limits on how much AD time a person can have, I would venture to say the increase in age is more about people joining the service at a later age rather than allowing those with lots of AD time to become an officer later.
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The venture passed 20 I agree, but even the amount of knowledge, skill and leadership that a prior can bring to the O1-O3 ranks is insurmountable by the vast majority of non prior officers that do one contract and get out.
 
1812TC

1812TC

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Jbyrne89 said:
I really hope so. I think that since the Pilot/NFO board has placed people in OCS classes before releasing the results, some recruiters are able to check to see if their applicant is on any upcoming class rosters.
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Someone on there confirmed that this is what is occurring with the SNA/NFO board currently.
 
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sldm992

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If the same thing were to happen for us, I think we are looking at another 2 weeks until we get word of anything...
 
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EO87

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sldm992 said:
If the same thing were to happen for us, I think we are looking at another 2 weeks until we get word of anything...
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That is kinda crappy though because there is another deadline coming up shortly for the next SWO board, March I wanna say. And if people wanted to apply for that in even they arent selected then they're at a disadvantage.
 
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sldm992

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EO87 said:
That is kinda crappy though because there is another deadline coming up shortly for the next SWO board, March I wanna say. And if people wanted to apply for that in even they arent selected then they're at a disadvantage.
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That's what happened with the Dec IWC board because they took so long they moved the dates of the following board
 
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