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Moms with Aviators in training in Corpus Christi
Started by missmellen. Last reply by JF Nov 23, 2022. 6 Replies 1 Like
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Comment by Paymaster on March 10, 2010 at 4:20pm
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The way I understand it, the time counts as years of serivce, but not towards commintment of time. Hope that makes sense.
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Comment by snowmc on March 10, 2010 at 3:31pm
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haha...don't they know that mom knows best!
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Comment by AH on March 10, 2010 at 3:07pm
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Now that I think back on it - Mike said that class up time for NFOs were longer than pilots, even when he was there. Now it seems like they are long for everybody.... Good luck on you SNA getting to come home for awhile. Mike is my only child. We have a small family so I miss him a bunch. It is hard only seeing them once in awhile. We are hoping to go out to Lemoore sometime this spring but it all depends on the squadrons work up schedule to deploy sometime later this year. He's in Fallon right now on some training for all sorts of things. He claims that the flying is "awesome" but the planning not so much. He is leading certain flights without ever having flown wing on the same type of flight. Also, he hasn't flown that much out of Fallon and the working area is foreign to him so lots of preparation on his part in addition to the actual flying. I told him to tell his Skipper that his Mom wants him to get more sleep. He said he didn't. Can't imagine why.
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Yes AH...that is what OHARP stands for.
Lisa..my son is in 12-10...he applied for OHARP two weeks ago but won't get final orders until just before graduation on the 26th. And then things can always change! I think it really depends on what is going on in P-cola, but he has been told there is a waiting period for NFO for anywhere from 4-10 months.
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I guess that it stands for Office Home Area Recruiting Program. Officers can get assigned to their home area for a temporary period while waiting to class up. I don't know if it was available when Mike was in Pensacola or not, but he graduated in Nov and started IFS in Feb and a couple weeks after that, classed up for API. He thought it was slow but seeing the posts here - he was on the fast path in comparison. One advantage to longer training times are that promotions are still at 2 and 4 years from Ensign to LTJG to LT. Mike got into his squadron after the RAG on F18 Superhornets in February and so he was still a LTJG until Nov. Some of the new people coming out of the training were already LT so even thought he had more experience he was out ranked.
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Back almost 5 years ago - things went faster even though Mike thought they went slow. OHARP is not a something that I ever heard about. OCS was even in Pensacola in 2005 so he reported to Aviation the same day he graduated and had to start mustering on the following Monday. He signed up to do something with extra duty or something like that and he only had to call in on days that he wasn't on duty rather than actually mustering. Worked out well for him.
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Comment by Lisa on March 10, 2010 at 1:48pm
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Snowmc, when do they find out if they get OHARP? My LO is in 13-10.
Thanks.
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That's what we are hoping for. My son has asked for OHARP and has been told he is accepted...now we just have to wait and see if it comes to be.
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wow Thanks AH. That helps a lot.
When they get orders after OCS do they report to P'cola immediately and THEN from there perhaps get OHARP if the wait is a long time for IFS and API?
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All of the time counts for total years, but remember that their committment starts when they wing. My son started 0CS in August 2005. He winged 2/29/2008. His 8 year committment started on that date. All of his class kidded that because they winged on 2/29 that their commitment is actually not going to be up until 8 leap years - what ever that calculates out to be.
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