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IFS Cancelled for USMC? Rumor or fact?
- Thread starter mcdwf398
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Nope haven't heard about that.
My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw the IFS director pass out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious. 
The rumor mill is going strong. It'll keep going strong, too. "Dude, I heard there were NO more jet slots." "Oh yeah, cuz so and so got one last week and he only had a 53." "Oh I heard there were 7, but they were only for the west coast." (<---My favorite one because it doesn't even make sense.)
Bottom line, get used to it. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But who gives a shit? At least you won't be at Camp Barrett.
Bottom line, get used to it. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. But who gives a shit? At least you won't be at Camp Barrett.
I just graduated TBS and yes, IFS did get canceled for the rest of the fiscal year due to budget constraints. We were told that we may be able to do IFS after the start of the new fiscal year (Oct 1), but I am not too hopeful. Right now all the recent TBS flight contract grads are getting ready to begin either language training or IOC in Quantico, because the wait time for API is pretty horrendous. Speaking of which, anyone have any gouge on current wait time to being API for a Marine?
Ready to put your 20 in?
Clock is still ticking on promotions/retirement. Seems like not a bad deal to me.
Anyone else find this ironic?
The whole "This program saves us money" thing? Agreed. If it's supposed to SAVE money, then expending it will exacerbate the problem. If it doesn't save money, then don't bring it back.
Yea they canceled it due to budget constraints, but now they have nothing to do with a bunch of Lt's so they are hiring a bunch of foreign language teachers to teach us a language for 5 months. It seems like it would be way more expensive to send us to language school for 5 months than to send us to 3 weeks of IFS.
They told this to all of us who graduated in Delta company last year. So we came down to Pcola amidst rumors that we were just going to go straight to API. Guess what... we did IFS in Milton. (Maybe on big Navy's dollar, we never got that answer)
You will probably do the same. Why would you be so concerned about IFS when you know you aren't coming down here to start API anytime soon? The proverbial "They" probably see it as not having to pay for something right now; however, assuming they do have to hire new language instructors (rather than pull from the DLA) they can use the IFS money to pay them. It makes sense.