Outranking your DI

[gin_e]

What happens when a prior enlisted outranks their DI at OCS? They would have to be an E8 or above, ie. Senior Chief Petty Officer.

 

[FrogFly]

A candidate doesn't outrank anything, regardless of any prior-enlisted rank previously held.

 

[Keith Nielsen]

There is what is called "positional authority" where an individual will "outrank" another who may be the same or higher paygrade. This is not a common thing, but it does happen. At my last command my dept. head was a commander while my XO was a LCDR. The XO outranked due to position.

 

[NFOtoBE]

Not necessarily, Some DI's are E-6's so to outrank him you would only have to be E-7. Like said earlier that does not matter because you are an officer candidate and do not outrank anything, until you graduate!

 

[AZSkegee]

well the likelyhood of a chief or senior attending OCS is very rare, they would go LDO or try to pick up Master Chief

 

[matrixed]

You don't out rank s***............why would such a question be asked anyway.

"hail, hail, hail the ..........."

MATRIXED

 

[Meridiani]

why would such a question be asked anyway.

I can't really speak for Ginny...but for myself, I know that you get bored and anxious waiting for OCS. You have too much time on your hands. Strange hypothetical questions roam restlessly through your brain. You think, 'Hey, why not ask at Air Warriors?' Mainly, people here understand this compulsion.

 

[quickandsure]

LOL

 

[wink]

In OCS your rank is Officer Candidate. Look at the paperwork. If you come from the fleet as an E-7 that is simply your pay grade. Your rank is Officer Candidate. Not Chief anything!! Shortly after I went through AOCS (in the dark ages only avaition candidates went to Pcola and the DIs were meaner too)one of the DIs on staff actually went into the Navy as a SNFO and back through AOCS. His buddies were still there. I can gurantee you he got no breaks and pulled no rank. As I recall he became a P-3 NFO.

 

[AZSkegee]

Thanks PATMACK18 I always wondered if Chief attended, most on my boat seem to prefer LDO, and take that route, but you learn something new every day HOO-YAAH

 

[SPOOK_SW]

in class 22-03 there are two Chefs in there. One is a GSMC with 13 years and the other is a ATC with 13 or 14 years in. It is really hard to get LDO or CWO slotts in some communities. I had to do it with 11 years as a IS1(SW) because there are almost no intelligence slots for othre commisining programs.