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Pensacola info requested!
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Permalink Reply by Jane on
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The SNA is given 3-4 days travel to P'cola but can take more if desired. During OCS they earn 7.5 days of leave - they can take more but will go in the hole. My son's actual report date on his orders allowed for 2 weeks or so, he chose to use a few days of leave, then report in the Friday following commissioning. OHARP for pilots was not an option. (also, he received his orders the day of commissioning, and some SNA's had to stay in Newport a few days because they did not yet have orders. Don't know anything about pink slips - possible because they NAVY does not need more pilots at that time...unsure so I can't speculate. They are being paid while waiting and they may be assigned occasional duties on base along with watches, musters, PT and other such duties. There is a lot of downtime that they can pretty much do what they want - within reason. Hope this helps. (my son was in Pensacola for just over 6 months - that included IFS and API, then reported to Corpus. Again, quick turnaround time.
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My son is in Pensacola waiting to class up for IFS , March 22. He has been there since Nov.1. Graduated OCS in class 01-10. He says they are looking for ways to get rid of pilots. They are all backed up , planes broken down, backed up in Corpus. They MAY (not implimented yet) raise the grading system for API . API is all ground school , lots of testing. From now on failing could be a 90% instead of an 80%. I think you have one chance to retest if you fail. Again, this is what they are threatening to do. The are telling the guys this in their daily briefings.
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Hi Leslie, keep us posted on what you hear--several of us on N4M have LOs from OCS class 03-10 also waiting in Pensacola to class up.
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OH MY GOSH!!! Wow. Now that is information that I have been waiting, but not wanting, to hear.
So you DO have to wait to class up for IFS.... OK, well one step at a time. Thank you so much Leslie for giving it to me straight! LOL
Only a couple more weeks until your son gets to class up. YES! I am very happy for you and your son.:) -
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Permalink Reply by PattyM on
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Hi! Just heard this from my daughter, who just left Pensacola and went to the RAG for EP-3's in JAX.....apparently brand new Ensigns are being "put on hold" (read, go home until we call you) for up to a year before they class up for API! That is how backed up everything is in Pensacola. What a freaking nightmare! It is her understanding that they do not get paid for this "time off", that this time does NOT count toward time in service, and that they just have to work or whatever until they get called up for API or IFS. Horrible, frustrating situation.
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So they are not even getting OHARP!? Oh boy. So my LO will basically be out of a job for a year in this economy. Thanks for telling me, pflute; it's always best to know ahead of time so we can try to figure out what to do.
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I know my son said this does not count as time in the service, however since they have to report evrey morning for drills, how can they not pay them!! It is not like they are free to get other jobs at this point. If they send them back home it is one thing, but if they are keeping them there to report every morning, I would hope they are at least getting paid. I know my son said he is trying to do volunteer work in his down time and read the study guides.
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JAMI --- I don't think pflute is talking about the guys that have been waiting in Pensacola. They are telling them at OCS now maybe to report in at Pensacola and then go home until we call you. Like class 10 - 10 and beyond. What class was your son in? Not the guys who have been waiting and mustering every morning. Am I right pflute? My son was in 01-10, musters every morning and IS GETTING PAID. Still hasn't classed up for IFS yet , tho. Supposed to next week.
I know when my husband was a pilot in the Navy , '68 - '72, ( I was in 2nd grade lol) he had signed up for 6 years. He only had to serve 3 of those years. They were offering over 1000 pilots "early release". Either you got out or you had to sign up for 20 years. He wanted to go to Vietnam, but it wasn't an option because his brother was already there. So, he got out and went with a commercial airline. They had too many pilots at that time. -
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Hi all...no, I wasn't talking about those already in P'Cola...only those that are still at OCS and awaiting graduation. Sorry if I caused any more confusion...Patty
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Thanks Patti, that's what I thought. This is all still too bad for my family as I have a son at USNA that will graduate next May and if he gets pilot designate, I guess they will tell him to go home and wait and not pay him. It may also cause him to pick another designation other than pilot. I wonder what they are telling the Marine Pilots. He is threatening to go Marine Air. At the academy, you can go either Navy or Marine Air. If you go Marine Air, you have to do 6 months at TBS ( the basic school) in Quantico , Va., before you go down to Pensacola to wait to class up for IFS or API. This would "kill" 6 months of the wait time. Then they go down to Pensacola and class up with our Navy guys. Our guys wear green flight suits and the Marine pilots wear sand colored flight suits. Thats about all I know about that. lol.
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