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The OP was worried about cost and flight availability; three weeks is not a lot of time to avoid the holiday prime pricing period. OP: The OCS website has contact information. You can attempt to contact them to see if they have determined the holiday stand-down period yet. Considering that...

I think this flip flopping is because it's somehow hard for communities outside aviation to realize that our qual pipeline of sending someone to a ship with almost no training and expecting them to absorb a high level of knowledge and be an engaged DIVO makes no sense. But they don't want to...

His question is reasonable, and if his sn is true then OP is not new to the Navy. The official holiday standdown dates weren't posted until early November last year, so I doubt you're going to find them right now in Sept. I did a google search and there is no information on the official...

My very first post started with "I am surprised," which indicates that the story was not portrayed the way I would have expected a Fox News to convey it. That is not positive nor negative; it is a simple fact that the conservatives believe in harsher justice. Had I read the byline more closely...

A slam would be saying something like "Fox News is terrible." Noting that Fox News has some kind of responsibility for spreading a poorly written article is not a slam. My excuse is that I don't get paid to review articles for a website, so I really didn't care who wrote it. The Fox News...

My comment wasn't a "bash," nor was I "slamming" them; rather, it was merely an observation. Fox News makes plenty of money, so no need to be touchy about it. The fact that they didn't write it explains a bit. Nevertheless, someone who gets paid by Fox News reviewed and posted that story, bias...

I am a bit surprised that a self-proclaimed conservative news organization such as Fox News writes this story with an obviously bleeding-heart liberal bias. It makes statements like he "found himself in a crowd" and "With the van already on two wheels and going over, Strine placed his palms on...

Go to grad school and don't suck this time.

Question you need to ask: Will enlisting make your college GPA suddenly eligible? You may run into that brick wall again someday, even if you enlist. I have met many Sailors who have college degrees and were told by the recruiter to enlist to go Officer, or just simply didn't know that there...

He collided with a tanker. They tend to have large radar cross-sections, transmit on AIS which tells you their exact location, course, and speed, and display several lights. Unless this was a tanker that went dark to hide from everyone, this isn't a NVG issue... you'd see his lights better...

Yea my bad it's E5.

You're an idiot. How's that for a generalization? No one cares about speeding tickets. People do care about drug charges, especially ones that happened in the last year. Don't compare apples to oranges. Yes, I have made mistakes in the past, and yes, those mistakes still follow me 10 years...

You get paid as an E6 with less than 2 yrs of service. Google it. If you are married you'll also get BAH.

You can use a credit card. But you do need to pay your bill with the uniform shop prior to leaving.

You'll get a one-time uniform allowance to the tune of 1200-1500. Your uniform bill at the end of OCS will be 1800-2200, depending on whether you opt for the expensive dress uniforms (my advice: don't. You don't wear them enough to matter). You can open up a STAR card account to knock 10% off...

Answer the questions asked on your application. I don't remember how the questions are phrased, but if they ask you if you've been convicted you can say no. However, you are asked if you've ever been arrested or used drugs, and you will have to admit to that. Something also to consider...

Did your applications already go in front of the Pilot and NFO boards? If so, you were already non-select for those communities, so declining a commission to just reapply is going to hurt you -- a lot. You have to report on every subsequent application if you turned down a commission and, if so...

If you decline a position for swo, you can all but kiss your career as an officer goodbye. Don't even think about lat transfer for another 5 years. Get qualified, kick ass, and when you are eligible weigh your options.

Don't bother. Even if you read all that stuff and realize it's all a game, plenty of your classmates won't and it'll just frustrate you to no end. Just memorize the stuff on the official website and work out a lot to prepare.

If the academy or your NROTC unit doesn't meet their yearly quota for nuke, your OIC will pick midshipmen to go to the interviews. The "ramifications" are somewhat overblown. As far as I know, Naval Reactors is not going to call your unit and make you a SWO to "punish" you. The SWO community...

He was working inside a gutted compartment of an SSN. He was hired to sandblast, not conduct missions or install special equipment. You'd learn more about a sub looking at pics on Google and watching Hunt for Red October. Depression doesn't make people light their workplace on fire... we'd have...

He was allowed to sandblast and paint, and he may not have had a clearance to go into any sensitive compartments. Would you prefer the illegal immigrants many private construction companies use for their labor? You're not gonna find too many Harvard grads itching to chip paint in confined...

Also, I went through OCS with one pair of sneakers.

Going out of the country before OCS is entirely feesible BUT you should coordinate with your recruiter to dot all the Is and cross all the Ts. Doing that will ensure you don't ruin your security clearance and won't be told to relort to OCS on vacation. Your biggest risk really is getting hurt...

Submarine motto is "Officers fight the ship, Chiefs run the ship." Of course, it's all up to what the CO wants to prioritize. If your CO thinks that collateral duties are more important, then he'll give better fitreps to the guys who do a better job at running [insert random Navy program] over...

Everything you said is correct with one minor exception: The official cause of the fire is a vacuumed up piece of slag from welding that smoldered with the other debris inside and eventually caught fire. However, that is proving to be a challenging thing to reproduce.

My biggest disappointment (aside from losing half a submarine) is how the media portrayed the Submariners as needing to be saved by the local fire depts. Of course, media recognition is not why we do this, but at least have the courtesy to not make the crew out to be helpless souls who needed to...

You can only get a pro-rec for designators you list on the application. If you don't want to accept a particular job, don't list it. You don't get paid until you sign an enlistment contract. That means you can withdraw your application at any point up to then. The only penalty would be that...

There are some recruiters who encourage applicants to take the test cold. Mine did this as well, although getting straight 1s takes a special talent. Straight and simple: OP you need to find time to study. If you can't find time, it's not important enough to you. There is no magic formula, just...

The OCS official website tells you what to memorize before showing up -- gen orders of a sentry, code of conduct, ranks and pins. Oh and Anchors Aweigh (all 3 verses) and Marine's Hymn. Even all those are not really required, it just makes things easier.

My uniform bill came out to like $1900, and I had to replace a broken combo cover like 3 times. How did you get up to 3 grand?

Also, note that enlisting won't erase an ineligible gpa for any designator ( meaning less than the min allowed per instruction), and you can't apply to sta21 if you already have a degree. Just keep that in mind if you are planning to enlist to pad your app for OCS.

I wasn't saying everyone who is morally opposed to homosexuality is opposed to gay rights, but the perception of many is that one implies the other.

The nuke officer program screens solely based on college technical course gpa. Enlisting as a nuke won't raise your college grades, so you'll be no more eligible for that commissioning program than you are today. Don't go nuke because you think it looks good on an OCS app. It's a community that...

Part of the bigot label wrt homosexuality centers around gay marriage and adoption, which are both issues regarding civil rights. Saying one doesn't believe homosexuality to be moral or right now implies he also doesn't believe gays ought to be able to enjoy the same priviledges of straight...

I have done an extensive review of your credentials and conclude you have a 42% chance of being accepted as a nuke. /sarcasm

I hate to burst your bubble, but applying for a commission is a screening process, unlike enlisting. Part of the mentality the board is going to use to screen you is: do you already demonstrate the discipline, motivation, and attitude to succeed as an Officer? By your logic (and I can't say I...

Concur that paying the ticket is your best option at this point. Disconcur that pleading not guilty is dishonest/violates your integrity. Often doing so will put you in a plea bargain situation that will get you a more fair punishment than what will be obtained by pleading guilty.

But the crux is, do they come back having actually accomplished something (for instance, a graduate degree), or did they piddle around in entry-level jobs for 6-12 months and came to the realization that the Navy was a better deal? I'm just asking so that we compare apples to apples here. I have...

So are you actually referring to an official Navy policy, or are you just quoting a couple of personal examples and using in-office colloquolism to imply Kodak would be a quitter for pursuing a free Master's?

Unfortunately, I can't answer your direct question re: will withdrawing your application affect your ability to commission in the future. However, the other bridge you have to worry about burning is with your education and civilian employability. Even if the Navy is your #1 priority, you have...

Skakid, you should pursue a path that gives you the greatest amount of options and makes you as employable as possible by everyone, especially at 20 years old. Your college degree is a lot more than a check in the box to become eligible for a commissioning program -- it can determine what other...

To the thread title, the benefits of a Master's Degree as an URL officer is a check-in-the box that can increase your competitiveness for O-4 and above given everything else is equal. Not exactly required, but many have one. However, there seem to be a lot of posts that say "go into the Navy...

I just wanted to confirm what Bevo said. I am a Sub Officer and went through the pipeline in '08. While the attrition rate is more like 10-15%, flunking nuke school does not necessarily spell the end of your son's Naval career. As long as he keeps his nose clean and works hard, he will likely...

Hairspray is used to keep folded clothes crisp and in place for RLP when you have to fold a Hanes T-shirt into an exactly 6"x6" square and have it stay like that when the DI plops it on your rack.

Brett, Here is a link to the libertarian party's official 'core values:' http://www.lp.org/platform Interestingly enough, I'm not seeing anything about abstaining from WWII, becoming an isolationist nation, or abolishing the DMV. If you can't see how extrapolating the beliefs of a few...

The tangible benefit would be removing a source of tax cost, through removing fees, wages, and lifetime benefits and retirement for public employees. I pointed out that there really isn't much benefit to having the DMV, since it's in most people's interest to learn how to drive properly before...

Brett, you accuse Chunks and other libertarians of throwing out the baby with the bathwater, but you do the same in your counter-arguments. There are a significant amount of people in the U.S. who decide to drive without driver's licenses -- particularly illegal immigrants and teenagers with...

Any news on the results of the case? A lot of people seem to be focusing on the drunk thing...whether the Cadet was drunk or not is legally irrelevant. It doesn't matter if the limo driver claims he is drunk, it doesn't matter if the video shows him staggering, and it doesn't matter if the cops...

We have a long way to go before we get to the UK's state of the Navy... we have roughly 3x the amount of ships, with vastly more tonnage and personnel. The flip side of the equation is that if every European nation maintains a military that is incapable of starting a war against another...