What if you change your mind?

[YNK]

A friend posed this question to me:

If you get accepted into BDCP and you change your mind down the line (before OCS or even during OCS) and decide Navy's not for you, what happens?"

Anyone got a response I can give him?

 

[Thisguy]

Yep. You're going to boot camp as an E-2. The Navy isn't giving away money for free.

 

[ben]

^^ The contract BDCP guys sign spells this all out. The alternative to earning a comission should be motivation for any BDCP guy to complete the program.

 

[eddie]

I know you go in as an undesignated seaman, but is it possible to get assigned to a rate? I mean, otherwise you'll just be taking out trash and swabbing decks, at least from what I've herd. If the Navy needed to fill a rate, might they put a BDCP dropout in it, or not?

I guess I'm wondering if they are trying to punish you, get their money's worth, or both.

 

[Jen]

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[Kycntryboy]

They had some people who got attrited from OCS just pay back the money the recieved I don't know if that is an option before arrival though

 

[Stubby]

I know you go in as an undesignated seaman, but is it possible to get assigned to a rate?

Sailors are given a final opportunity to select an A-school at MEPS in processing prior to arriving at Boot Camp.

 

[Dalamara]

Dunno how it works with BDCP, but every scholarship student that has dropped NROTC here has just had to pay back their money. They COULD send you on active duty but our PNS has never done it. I guess it'd probably be a little different when the guy making the decision has never met you before and you're just a name and number to him.

 

[Steve Wilkins]

I know you go in as an undesignated seaman, but is it possible to get assigned to a rate? I mean, otherwise you'll just be taking out trash and swabbing decks, at least from what I've heard. If the Navy needed to fill a rate, might they put a BDCP dropout in it, or not?

Rated or non rated, you'll be taking out trash and swabbing decks anyway, and yes, possibly even chipping paint (actually, needle-gunning the paint to be more correct).

As a fully qualified nuke, I was a head cleanin, deck scrubbin, p-way waxin, lube oil wearin, bulkhead paintin fool.

 

[Birdman]

Hooyah

 

[Gatordev]

...possibly even chipping paint (actually, needle-gunning the paint to be more correct).

More than likely, right above my rack while I'm crew-resting.