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As everyone may know, I'm finally heading to OCS tomorrow after many a long year of working to earn a commission. I just want to say thank you to everybody on the board who's given me advice and helped me out over the last few years. It's been much appreciated and I look forward to seeing y'all...

When and how long is the holiday break usually? I'm going to have 2.5 days of leave saved up and I'd rather not be too deep in the hole.

Hey, looks like we'll be in the same class. Apparently it requires national authority to move OCS dates now, and said authority has set all upcoming OCS rosters in stone. Well, first beer of liberty is on me, I guess. Yut!

I'm at Goddard working on the EOS Project.

Unfortunately, I found an "interim" job working for NASA and pulling myself off of the duty roster with a scant three weeks notice would leave the program woefully undermanned. In all honesty though, my gut reaction was to pull up stakes and head for Newport for a nice few weeks vacation, so as...

I'm signing my FS Letter on Thursday! My tentative report date is 30 October, but I'm trying to get that pushed back until November or January because of work. I look forward to seeing y'all in Newport.

As of yet, there have been no guarantees for OCT/NOV boards. If they do have boards in OCT/NOV, my guess is that they will cover the usual communities that they always have a hard time filling like Chaplain, SPECWAR, NUKE, CEC, etc. There have been rumors of a SWO, SNA, SNFO, IDC, Intel board in...

Thanks for all of the inside gouge, Mills; it's much appreciated. I was really worried from the way my recruiter talked that they might not be sending out FS letters or OCS dates until six months from now. Glad to see that it'll be a little sooner.

For all of those applying from Civie Street like myself, my recruiter informed me that they probably will not be issuing dates until Congress passes the budget and the Navy knows how much money they have to work with. He said that as soon the budget is passed, approved, and the Navy has their...

If you had a pro-rec previously, you should have been able to just be submitted for reconsideration at the soonest board. That happened to me back in April. My recruiter even tried to get me submitted for a re-review outside of normal boards (no-go for me due to budget craziness), and this might...

I'm not sure if you're automatically accepted again, but I believe the protocol is for them to take every single piece of paper that they have on you and review it with a special panel of selection officers. That's what they did for me, but it might be on a case-by-case basis. I felt bad for my...

I was also in a similar situation and the problem with the reconsideration process is that it isn't well documented, so most recruiters have no idea how exactly to submit and work it. My recruiter was told by the master processor at Millington to just submit everything like a normal application...

I believe that it affects all selects at the August board. I'm hoping that everything gets worked out by the end of the month, but we shall see.

By "re-granted" I mean that after I received my initial pro-rec last September, I became embroiled in an epic struggle with MEPS doctors to get cleared medically. The entire seven-month episode ran from frustrating to depressing to borderline ridiculous; eventually requiring a full medical...

Ladies and Gents, I just spoke with my recruiter and found out that Big Navy has re-granted my pro rec. Unfortunately, he also hit me with some bad news. Apparently, the budget crisis has still not been settled and those pro rec'd by the August boards will be waiting for a Final Select while...

Quoted for truth. The medical clearance process is probably the most difficult to get through. If you have any questionable diagnoses or conditions in your medical history, make sure you get every scrap of documentation you can for it before you go to MEPS. This will make your life much...

Dammit, man! You're not helping at all! Now I'm going to spend the rest of the night freaking out. I'm totally freaking out, man.

When I was knocking down doors while dealing with my own psych waiver, I was informed by a psychologist who works at NAMI that during the flight physical process the odds are high that they might require you to take a cognitive ability exam just to put any worries about ADD/ADHD to rest. He said...

Sounds like my Thermodynamics professor. Dude has his Phd from MIT and is unbelievably smart. Our first test, he no shit told us that the average grade would probably be in the upper fifties. Somehow I managed to hover around the average, but dear God, did I have to work my ass off in that...

Don't worry too much. The boards meeting in August are filling up some of the FY 2012 (which starts on 1 OCT 2011) slots. FY 2013 slots probably won't open up until the JAN-FEB 2012, judging by past years' performance. Unfortunately, with the current budget situation and upcoming cuts imminent...

You have to Just that; walk backwards. As in with your back facing the direction in which you want to travel. My OR said you can guarantee yourself a jet slot if you do the moonwalk for the next six days. For example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgPKc9FUC6Y

Eagle, are you resubmitting after non-select or did your pro rec expire? I'm in the latter group and my recruiter and processor have been working very closely with Millington to figure out what exactly is required in my circumstance since I'm a bit of an oddity. My apologies if any of my advice...

I had a similar experience at MEPS. I was also one of two officer applicants; they had no idea how to handle me.

It's official; I heard back from my OR this morning and my package is in for reconsideration in August. Best of luck everybody.

Well, I met with my recruiter this afternoon and filled out all of the paperwork. I'm officially in for this board unless they cancel it again.

I just spoke with my recruiter today, and he confirmed that all but SNA boards have been canceled for August. And it looks like I'll be in for these boards after all.

Not necessarily. The way it's worked in the past is that the you usually don't start selecting for your upcoming fiscal year until about May or June. I was selected back in September of 2010 and would have been FY11 had I not been held up in MEPS. Now that boards and report dates are being...

That wouldn't happen to be a C-46 would it?

If I indeed have to go through another board, here are my stats: Virginia Military Institute BS in Mechanical Engineering Concentration in Aerospace Engineering GPA: 2.605 Dean's List Inducted into Kappa Alpha Order upon graduation ASTB: 6/7/7 53 Extra-Curricular: Served as a Color SGT at VMI...

He's got some good gouge, though. Just because he comes off as a bit of a blowhard doesn't mean his gouge is bad. YMMV, of course.

From what I've read, there are are a number of permanent test slots available, and when you're not flying, you're assisting in program management and development like any other AEDO. From what I could gather, it made it seem like all of these slots are for Department Heads and above, though. I...

Well done, dude. Congratulations.

How does doing a test pilot tour fit in to this career progression? And how does the transition to full-time test piloting as an AEDO function? I've done some research and it sounds interesting but the details are light as it's a small community.

This isn't completely true. About a decade or so ago, the Snyders were drawing up plans to open up franchises as far west as the Missippi. Then a corporate charter crashed with the CEO and a bunch of the top execs on board, forcing the company to restructure.

I just got off the phone with my recruiter and was told something similar to Jollygood; except he said that all sports are canceled indefinitely, except for baseball. The only problem is that games will be severely limited due to ticket sales shortfalls, so expect to see only intermittent...

I've never seen Cars but that looks good. I'll pay to go see it.

Gotcha; I don't follow hockey.

Wait, your OR gives you sports updates? Next thing you'll tell me is that he gives you the hook-up on hookers and blow. :icon_ooh:

I've heard that they won't go higher than a 4x4 nowadays; is there any truth to this? It might just be the local In-N-Out in my old neighborhood back in LA, though. Back in the day, when I was playing HS football, my standard order was a 4x4 animal style, animal style fries, and a neapolitan...

Dude, get used to it. I've been working on an application since October 2009 for OCS alone. Many other guys and gals have been going at this longer than I have. It's part of the process, so sit back and relax and crack open a cold one. Spoken like a true professional. Let me go grab the...

Calories, schmalories. It'll be good motivation for going out and doing PT. ;)

We should start a drinking game: Take a shot every time someone posts about board cancellations.

Bummer. An exchange tour would definitely make for some great sea stories.

So what career milestones need to be met in order to go on an exchange tour with the French, because that Rafale is a sexy airplane?

Do you have any more details about that? I'd be interested; but I'd like to have more than hearsay to bring to my recruiter.

I haven't received my FS yet. I still have a few weeks before I can even resubmit my paperwork. We'll see what happens after that. I'm hoping I can be reconsidered early as it improves my chances of not falling through the cracks at the August board.

Honestly, you've got nothing to lose by submitting your packet. The selection board will review every packet they get and select from those. The only guys who may take precedence are those who were tabled at previous selections and guys being reconsidered for their Final Select. My advice is to...

Do my eyes deceive me, or are the Cubbies actually winning in that video? :eek: /threadjack

Not necessarily true as I've had my OR confirm boards for at least SNA in August. Also, we've had solid gouge on open OCS classes in late January. I know you're heart's in the right place, but we get the doom-and-gloom stuff all the time and it just isn't productive. We try to keep everything on...

Eagle, all told it's taken me eight tries and six years. I applied 3 times to the Academy, 3 times for NROTC, and twice for OCS. The first time at the OCS boards I was tabled due to being out of body composition, so I PTed my ass off and was picked up last September. Unfortunately, I'm having to...