Unless your retired NFO source happens to work for SECNAV and knows something the rest of the world does not... that's total BS.
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What's the Navy's need right now?
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Unless your retired NFO source happens to work for SECNAV and knows something the rest of the world does not... that's total BS.
Simple... different year group, different needs.
Ain't happening. Ask him where he heard that one.
Uhhhhhhh, no.
See this ongoing thread for several perspectives on same topic
How does that work? They'd be recruiting for the current fiscal year still, wouldn't they? So, those of us in A-Pool would be counted in that estimation, as we'd be classing up in the same fiscal year. Besides, I was a part of the NA and NFO "draft" from last year when they put a big push on the recruit us, and look what happened to most of us...
Year group and fiscal year aren't necessarily the same. For example, since I spent a year in grad school after I commissioned, I'm a year behind my year group, and instead of FY05 I'm in FY06 when I showed up for primary. Since it's so early in the game being a year behind won't really matter right now, but that topic is a whole different thread.
The difference is that the YG projections are for later on down the road when guys start rolling into the timeframe for DH, stuff like that. The detailers look at the projected numbers at that point for each year group, and for each year group's expected numbers needed for the different billets. So, one year group may fill in a good portion of those billets, and then come the next year group there aren't nearly as many billets available, hence less numbers needed.
At least that's how it was explained to me.
The difference is that the YG projections are for later on down the road when guys start rolling into the timeframe for DH, stuff like that. The detailers look at the projected numbers at that point for each year group, and for each year group's expected numbers needed for the different billets. So, one year group may fill in a good portion of those billets, and then come the next year group there aren't nearly as many billets available, hence less numbers needed.
At least that's how it was explained to me.
Ah, I see, sounds reasonable. Anyway, this whole waiting thing has got me just a little frustrated. I know there are other topics on this board with other SNFO's expressing similar feelings, so I'll just leave it at that so that hopefully this topic can return to the original discussion.
In light of that, I would like to voice my agreement with Brett's original answer: It's extremely difficult to find out reliably what the "Needs of the Navy" really are, so the best course of action (and i found this to be true as well in my own experience with applying and getting accepted about a year ago) is to put together the strongest application package and send it up as many times as necessary to get accepted. If you have what it takes, more than likely, you'll get accepted.
See, that's what happens when you're an over-achiever....you should have stayed in P-cola and drank.
If you sleep 12 hours out of 24, the time goes twice as fast.
If you're drunk the other 12 hours, you can't remember them.
So in reality, you're in the A-pool for no time at all.....
See, that's what happens when you're an over-achiever....you should have stayed in P-cola and drank.
If you sleep 12 hours out of 24, the time goes twice as fast.
If you're drunk the other 12 hours, you can't remember them.
So in reality, you're in the A-pool for no time at all.....
lol, I never thought of looking at it that way.
Over-Achiever... have you been reading my posts in the other topic on waiting in A-pool, perhaps?