ccssandiego
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to all current or prior enlisted-
I am currently an E5 stationed on an aircraft carrier - after finally finishing my Bachelor's Degree last November, I started getting my OCS package together so I could apply as soon as possible - It is February and I have everything in order except for my officer board. Well I went back to my command career counselor (who was getting pretty sick of me by now) and told him I'm ready to set up the officer board - he told me that i first needed to finish a Professional Development Board before i could go any further. He said it was a formality when applying to an officer program and would take 10 minutes - I never heard of this but I was willing to do whatever it took to get the application in the mail. This is when things went bad - the board consisted of: the master chief of my department, my LCPO, the command career counselor (a senior chief), and my e5 dept. career counselor -
the board started out by my master chief asking me 1 question; why did i want to be a naval aviator? - i told him about my interest in aviation, my goals, etc... & that was to be the last question he asked, because he spent the next 30 minutes telling me my package didn't have "a snowball's chance in hell" (exact words) of making it. His main argument was that i am an E5 and not SW or AW qualed, and have not had any real supervisory positions...the most frustrating thing was the next thing he said, which was basically that he was not going to allow me to apply - he said that the package had to go through him and have his endorsement, and he would not endorse it because he felt that my chances of getting picked up were really poor. --- It was a pretty discouraging thing to hear and now i am just trying to figure out what to do next...it is a very helpless feeling when someone who has no idea of just how much a commission means and no understanding of the OCS application process, can keep me from applying - This happened just last week so I think i just needed to vent, but i could also use a little help or advice - if anyone has gone up against something similiar or has any suggestions, please let me know - thanks
-chad
I am currently an E5 stationed on an aircraft carrier - after finally finishing my Bachelor's Degree last November, I started getting my OCS package together so I could apply as soon as possible - It is February and I have everything in order except for my officer board. Well I went back to my command career counselor (who was getting pretty sick of me by now) and told him I'm ready to set up the officer board - he told me that i first needed to finish a Professional Development Board before i could go any further. He said it was a formality when applying to an officer program and would take 10 minutes - I never heard of this but I was willing to do whatever it took to get the application in the mail. This is when things went bad - the board consisted of: the master chief of my department, my LCPO, the command career counselor (a senior chief), and my e5 dept. career counselor -
the board started out by my master chief asking me 1 question; why did i want to be a naval aviator? - i told him about my interest in aviation, my goals, etc... & that was to be the last question he asked, because he spent the next 30 minutes telling me my package didn't have "a snowball's chance in hell" (exact words) of making it. His main argument was that i am an E5 and not SW or AW qualed, and have not had any real supervisory positions...the most frustrating thing was the next thing he said, which was basically that he was not going to allow me to apply - he said that the package had to go through him and have his endorsement, and he would not endorse it because he felt that my chances of getting picked up were really poor. --- It was a pretty discouraging thing to hear and now i am just trying to figure out what to do next...it is a very helpless feeling when someone who has no idea of just how much a commission means and no understanding of the OCS application process, can keep me from applying - This happened just last week so I think i just needed to vent, but i could also use a little help or advice - if anyone has gone up against something similiar or has any suggestions, please let me know - thanks
-chad