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20 MAR 17 SWO BOARD THREAD
- Thread starter FormerRecruitingGuru
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moveslikemorgan
Standing By
God bless....seriously? Does your recruiter have any insight on the holdup? I'm going stir crazy over here and I was selected from May SWO, I can't imagine what you must be feeling! I feel for you
Pixels64
Active Member
I try to regularly contact my recruiter however I never really gain any insight where I'm at on receiving my FINSEL. About 4 weeks ago he told me I'm in "booking status". He keeps saying it's a waiting game. I'm anxiously awaiting an OCS date, whenever that may come. I hope no one has to wait this long, its brutal. I hope your FINSEL/orders come in soon too. Good luck!
Same boat as you. Pro-Rec Y SWO from the March 6 2017 board. The last time I heard from the NRD was three weeks ago when I was asked for my preference for my OCS date. I told them October, which was their earliest option, but I have no FinSel and no call from my recruiter. The other options he gave me were November and December, so it looks like at the time they called me, they were filling up their quotas for the rest of the year. I believe SWO's have a higher than usual wait time right now to get into OCS. Either Rufio said that or someone else was repeating what their recruiter said. Priority is on pilot's and NFO's
SeaReaver
Well-Known Member
Some say the SeaReaver is still out there, searching for a FINSEL letter that will never come.
moveslikemorgan
Standing By
Lol! Don't lose hope! It'll show up eventually. We're all in this together...
moveslikemorgan
Standing By
Geeeeez. That's beyond frustrating, I'm sorry it's taking so long! Hopefully you're on the home stretch as far as waiting goes. Maybe we will end up in the same class!
GreenSteak
That's a demerit.
Going through this as well, nobody in my NRD seems to know anything other than it should be "any day now". Got pro-rec'd pilot/nfo back in April and for some bizarre reason, here I am still waiting. I have even tried to get a phone number for someone up in Newport to find out what the hold up is, but haven't had any luck with that. It's frustrating as hell, but hey, the beatdown in Newport will be a joke in comparison to this wait, right?
moveslikemorgan
Standing By
I keep hearing the whole "pilot/NFO priority push" thing, but my main question at this point is why are certain applicants from designators other than aviation also being chosen first/before us? I have seen several SWOs receive dates already, as well as Intel and Supply from May and April boards. And no hard feelings directed at them, it's obviously not their fault that they were selected first. I'm just spending my time waiting for my FINSEL by over-analyzing...everything. Le sigh.
And I've looked at it from multiple angles too, just trying to find some kind of trend/constant, but there's nothing to go off of from what I can tell.
At first I thought it was prior AD get FINSELs first, before non-priors, but nope! Then I thought it was going oldest-to-youngest, trying to make sure age critical applicants go first. But not that either! Then I thought it may have something to do with how we rank compared to the others selected from our specific board, but my recruiter told me that wasn't true when I asked last week. And even if there is a push for pilots/NFOs, my recruiter mentioned that there are a certain number of spots per class for each designator, so the members of each class can't all be aviation only.
I guess there's really no rhyme or reason behind the way any of this stuff goes down, haha. I need a new hobby.....
moveslikemorgan
Standing By
Dumb question...what's a travel request? Haha
moveslikemorgan
Standing By
Going through this as well, nobody in my NRD seems to know anything other than it should be "any day now". Got pro-rec'd pilot/nfo back in April and for some bizarre reason, here I am still waiting. I have even tried to get a phone number for someone up in Newport to find out what the hold up is, but haven't had any luck with that. It's frustrating as hell, but hey, the beatdown in Newport will be a joke in comparison to this wait, right?
Wow, this is beyond confusing to me. I'm so surprised you haven't gone since you're in aviation. I'd be raising literal hell if I were you...you have more patience than I....
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GreenSteak
That's a demerit.
Yeah... it is really irritating, especially when considering the classes that I should, by all accounts, have been in are graduating already. Essentially my recruiter was submitting fingerprints with an expired form number on them (they need a new number every time). In all I have submitted fingerprints 6 times and got another lovely trip to MEPS in the process for digital scans. I swear I'm going to age out before they ever get it together
Jamie Sue
Active Member
Navy recruiting Cheif submitted a travel request- a flight from West Palm to Rhode Island. I'm assuming because of the hurricanes, it's not set in stone.
Jamie Sue
Active Member
Chief damnnnnn