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Permalink Reply by Craig on
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I must admit, you don't give much detail on what your talking about....
However, just guessing here, I beleive you want to know if your already at a permenent duty duty station, can you change it. Yes, you can do a duty swap, but you need to find someone that wants your duty station.
http://www.npc.navy.mil/ReferenceLibrary/MILPERSMAN/1000MilitaryPer...
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Permalink Reply by JessicaB-Sailor Mom on
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Well, she's kinda sorta putting the cart WAY before the horse. Her loved one has just begun the process of enlistment and I don't think has even gone to MEPS yet much less got a ship date.
Just hang in there sem3720. Hopefully soon you'll have a ship date. Until then join the DEP gone but not yet group and when you do get a ship date there is a DEP group for each month...join these for good info.
Continue also to ask questions but I recommend that for now you focus on pre-enlistment type of questions...what should he be doing ( RUNNING (lots), taking care of himself, going to his DEP meetings, learning what he needs to know BEFORE he goes to boot camp and staying out of trouble) what should you be doing (getting use to periiods of no or little communication, reading all you can about the Navy, enjoying the civilian time that you have left with him)
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thank you for the replies, let me explain a little more why I asked this question
My boyfriend is about to join the navy. Hopefully he will be able to go to officer training (OCS i think?) after boot camp because he has his bachelor's degree, and then as I understand it he will get stationed at a base. I am currently a junior in college and I am making plans to go to graduate school. When looking at schools, I am trying to coordinate where he might be stationed and where I might be going to school so that we can hopefully be together. My boyfriend has said that it is possible to change stations after getting assigned to a naval base, so if at first I am at school somewhere different from where he is stationed, maybe he can come to me. Im just trying to find out how realistic of a possibility this is.
This brings up another question I have too. My boyfriend is 6 months away from turning 27 years old. Isn't there a cut off age for joining? When is he in danger of not being able to join?
I know I may be jumping the gun a little for these questions, but having these questions answered and feeling like I know what I am getting into would really make me feel better. Thanks again for the help
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Permalink Reply by Anti M on
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It would be highly unlikely they would change his duty station just to be near you. Almost zero, even if you were married.
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If your boyfriend joined as enlisted, he must wait until ALL his training is done before he can apply for the Officers program. Once he is at his first command he can apply for an Officers program. His first command will be based on the Needs of the Navy. He is single, so he could be stationed overseas.
The odds of him getting picked up the first time for OCS is pretty slim, he is going up againts people who have been in the USN much longer, have awards, eval's, ect.... Just 'cause he has his bachelor's degree doesn't mean he can be an Officer, there is more to it than just having a degree.
If he hasn't joined yet and wants to be an Officer he should go see the Officer recruiter, well even if he has joined and hasn't shipped yet he can go to an Officer recruiter to see if he is qualifed to join as an Officer.
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If he has his B.S then he needs to try to go to OCS first and not Boot Camp..that would be the simplist thing to do
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Permalink Reply by BunkerQB on
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From my observations.
- Probability of going to OCS immediately after Boot Camp: 0%
- Probability of him changing his assigned permanent base (at his request as opposed to result of needs of Navy: 0%
- Probability of getting into the OCS program with a technical degree (such as Electrical or Mechanical Engineering, Physics) with a GPA of 3.5 or higher and applying as a Nuke officer: fairly high
- Probability of getting into the OCS program with a non-technical degree (such as Sociology, Communications, International Studies, Women's Studies) with a GPA of 2.0 to 3.0: fairly low (the son of a family friend with a fairly high GPA from an excellent private liberal arts college with a major in English was discouraged from pursuing a career in the Navy by the recruiter).
My son fit into #3. The process on applying took about 10 months from the day he walk into the recruiter's office during his senior year in college to the date he reported for OCS training.
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