Frankly amazed at this conversation.
Emily, First off, many congratulations and kudos to you and your husband on getting selected for OCS and NFO, best wishes on the fun road ahead of you. But, honeslty, readying this thread from front to back, two times now, I am at a loss as to what the fuss is about. As Hrntdrv and UINavy and others stated, you voiced an opinion or statement that was contrary to the experience of many members here (of which there are quite a few of us that have time in, O3E here). No one is denegrating your husbands achievements, and getting into the program. You just have a bunch of ppl that have not heard of that direct promotion, and I am sure, there would be more lining up if possible.
As for the "hubby" comment, well, that comes hand in hand with the aviation community, it is NOT meant as a slight, but is more a term for acceptance and being part of the community.
In the end, a text based forum is NOT the most conducive to ppl making humor or jokes, especially when you don't get the body language or intonation. Quite a few ppl stepped in, indicative of what makes this forum a great place to come, to settle the waters and keep the thread going. That is what this web site is about, chatting over interesting topics, helping the next person out, and swapping funny stories if you have them.
To throw my 2 cents in, as mentioned by jaerose, the only program that I knew of that bypassed ranks was for the Restriced Line community, through OIS (Officer Indoctrination School) up in Newport, RI. Basically for the medical and legal types, or others that the Navy is looking for requisite experience from. I have seen freshly minted CDRs (medical) that didn't know what to do when I saluted them, lol. Other programs would be as you mentioned, LDO and CWO, I have seen people advanced there also, but of course they go through a different school in Pensacola as previously mentioned. HornetDrvr and UINavy brought up some valid points on career progression, and of course the 18 month promotion authorization. If you look at the instruction on that 18 month promotion (I have, was curious if the command could promote me early), there are some stringent requirements that have to be met. Not saying it can't be done, but the Navy and certain commands do things in their own way. I have not heard of many getting promoted early in the aviation community, either.
Anyways, basically, I don't like seeing people driven away from the forum, hope to see you posting on here.
Emily, First off, many congratulations and kudos to you and your husband on getting selected for OCS and NFO, best wishes on the fun road ahead of you. But, honeslty, readying this thread from front to back, two times now, I am at a loss as to what the fuss is about. As Hrntdrv and UINavy and others stated, you voiced an opinion or statement that was contrary to the experience of many members here (of which there are quite a few of us that have time in, O3E here). No one is denegrating your husbands achievements, and getting into the program. You just have a bunch of ppl that have not heard of that direct promotion, and I am sure, there would be more lining up if possible.
As for the "hubby" comment, well, that comes hand in hand with the aviation community, it is NOT meant as a slight, but is more a term for acceptance and being part of the community.
In the end, a text based forum is NOT the most conducive to ppl making humor or jokes, especially when you don't get the body language or intonation. Quite a few ppl stepped in, indicative of what makes this forum a great place to come, to settle the waters and keep the thread going. That is what this web site is about, chatting over interesting topics, helping the next person out, and swapping funny stories if you have them.
To throw my 2 cents in, as mentioned by jaerose, the only program that I knew of that bypassed ranks was for the Restriced Line community, through OIS (Officer Indoctrination School) up in Newport, RI. Basically for the medical and legal types, or others that the Navy is looking for requisite experience from. I have seen freshly minted CDRs (medical) that didn't know what to do when I saluted them, lol. Other programs would be as you mentioned, LDO and CWO, I have seen people advanced there also, but of course they go through a different school in Pensacola as previously mentioned. HornetDrvr and UINavy brought up some valid points on career progression, and of course the 18 month promotion authorization. If you look at the instruction on that 18 month promotion (I have, was curious if the command could promote me early), there are some stringent requirements that have to be met. Not saying it can't be done, but the Navy and certain commands do things in their own way. I have not heard of many getting promoted early in the aviation community, either.
Anyways, basically, I don't like seeing people driven away from the forum, hope to see you posting on here.
