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Son lost M.A. rating while in boot camp
at the beginning of his 5th week of boot camp. The letter said it was
lost as a result of having a one time marijuana use. The people at RTC,
not sure who exactly, gave him undesignated. Obviously he is very
upset but is still holding his head up. He is doing very well in
training and has been chosen to do special things at graduation.
We
called his local recruiter about this information and they said they
were dumb founded. They had never heard of anyone being released from an
M.A. rating job for a one time marijuana use. They are going to call
RQAT on Monday to find out exactly what is going on. They told me they
can do waivers at RTC so he could keep his rating. Again, they are not
sure why this is not being done.
What we do not understand is if
the one time use was an issue, why did he get a signed contract for M.A.
in the first place? If it wasn't ok, why didn't they say so and allow
him to get a waiver while in DEP? And for the life of us we can't
figure out why they would put someone who had such good ASVAB scores in
the undesignated arena.
Is there any Naval official out there who
can shed any light on this at all? Why is this happening? What can he
do? What can his recruiter do from here?
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Permalink Reply by Jess's Mom (Fire Controlman GL) on
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My daughter fortunately, was able to keep her MA through the entire boot camp. A lot of other SR's tried to take it away from her, but she perservered. Talk to your son again and make sure that it was not an instance of another SR who wanted the position and either out scored him academically, or showed leadership. I have never heard of anyone losing their MA because of a one time use of POT before swearing in, unless he didn't disclose the information and he let it slip to another SR and they ratted on him. My daughter did disclose her one time she used pot and had no problem. The only thing she earned from being MA was a promotion in week 4. She did earn being a stickman at graduation (honor of holding one of the divisions flags at PIR), but she did not receive any meritous awards at PIR. They were all pick by their House Chief even though she was in the top 2% with perfect scores 8 weeks in a row on inspections and academic achievement.
I would try to get some more details from your son.
Good luck.
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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You have two things mixed up, both with similar names but nothing alike at all. MA in boot camp is a temporary position, it has nothing to do with the actual rate of MA in the fleet. MA in boot camp can be any recruit chosen for the position, which is why some "tried to take it away". Recruits can't do that with a contracted rate and A school.
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Permalink Reply by ChrisAmo on
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I'm assuming the same as Anti M, that this was a temporary promotion in boot camp and won't necessarily last the entire time. My son was Medical Yeoman in boot. He's now an Aircrewman. One thing has nothing to do with the other.
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I was the Education PO in boot camp, my rate was ET (electronics technician) once I'd been to A school. The boot camp thing meant nothing, other than some bragging rights, if that.
I just had more college than anyone else in my division is why I was chosen. Not that what I did then wasn't important, it merely has little significance afterward.
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