exNavyOffRec
Well-Known Member
breeze through DCO (now ODS)
There are plenty of famous political names. George P Bush. Pete Buttigieg. Reince Priebus. Sean Spicer. Hunter Biden. Jimmy Panetta. There are others I’m sure. (If we’re keeping count: they are 2 PAOs, 1 HR, 3 Intel, 3 Democrats, 3 Republicans).
A few points DCO is a program not a school, ODS is a school, a person commissioned off the street into the reserves is a DCO and for school they will go to ODS.
This other point is before your time and may explain some of the people getting commissioned you mentioned, there is before 2010 and after 2010 now I am not sure what flipped the switch about that time but something did, up to 2010 (about) you would see people commissioned DCO Supply that were right out of college with no work experience, you would see Intel officer getting commissioned right out of college with no work experience and a few I met when I started recruiting spoke no foreign language (of course officers don't really use it) and had degrees like English, History, or Elementary Education. I wonder if they realized commissioning people with zero experience as a DCO was a burden on the reserve program? I ran into a few guys that drilled with one of said LT's and the comment was after 4 years the LT was starting to figure out what the job was about.