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Hey all, I'm hoping someone can help if you have been through the same thing or have any info to share.
My fiance graduated from A school on November 7 in Pensacola fl. When he graduated he didn't have orders. They tried saying it had something to do with the new fiscal yr starting in October and military trying to get money, personally sounds like a bunch of mess to me. It has now been 2 weeks and today half of the class that graduates this coming friday (next class to graduate after his) and everyone in his class got orders except for him and another sailor. Does anyone know why this has happened or anything.!?!?! Any help or advise will be appreciated.

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Just another case of "Hurry up and wait".

This is not uncommon.  Orders do have to be funded by the gaining command.  It IS the start of the fiscal year.  It really is a thing which happens every year, not to every sailor, but to someone.  Your sailor got to the the someone from his class this time.

Happens a lot with rates which might go to a C school too, if the school is full, the sailor waits at A school under orders for an open seat come in.

Fingers crossed!

I just think it doesn't make sense that his class was on hold and only 4 people out of 9 received their orders today and then half of the next class got their orders. it would make sense that first come first serve and since they are on hold, his class should have received all of their orders before the next class

When did the Navy ever have to give the appearance of making sense? Somewhere there may be a semi-logical reason for what is going on, but we will never be made aware of it. If you worry about this stuff you will go crazy.

I love the picture lol. I feel that's exactly what they are doing. Thank you for the help.

They have filled out "dream sheets" for where they would like to go next.  Perhaps their top three choices did not line up with the available orders, and the detailers are actually trying to give them a shot at what they want.  Not impossible.  Odd for A schoolers, but not impossible.  

I once filled out a WestPac dream sheet and was given Diego Garcia.  Be careful what you wish for.  

Although CryptoDad has it right, trying to fit your idea of sense on how the Navy does things will simply make you crazy.  There are always factors we will never know about.  

Thanks

My husband waited almost 2 months to get orders. When most of his friends already had them. He graduated A school at the end of Sept. He just picked his orders yesterday and we don't leave until March. So, thats completely normal. It was frustrating because he tried really hard to do well in school and was 6th in his class. He was told the same thing about the fiscal year. 

OMG im so sorry to hear that...here I am complaining over 2 and 1/2 weeks and you've waited 2 months. I can completely understand how you are feeling. IF you don't mind me asking, did he just stay at his A school location the whole time or was he able to leave? also, where are you guys going if you can not leave until March?

Haha its part of the life we live. My husband went to A school in Great Lakes IL. So I don't know if its the same there as it is for your sailor. Once he graduated from A school they put him on hold and moved him, along with all of his classmates to to a different ship that didn't have any students. Since he wasn't in school any more he had to do something. So, they can either stay on hold and clean every day or pick a job. He became a duty driver. All of his friends have jobs on base too. They have to stay on base and work until they have to report to their duty station. Some people left right away, some people had a few weeks, others leave in January or as late as March. Its different for all of them and their orders. One of his friends has the same orders for C school but he leaves a month earlier. It just is what it is.

He has been phase 3 and had live ashore for a long time and is now phase 3+ so he does get to live with me. I moved to IL a long time ago. He's been here since Feb 2014. (He's an FC and they have very long school) But he still has his job, duty and has to muster every day. We'll be here until March and we're going to San Diego for Sea Wiz C school.

WELCOME to the Navy where the rules are made up and what you expect doesn't matter... but no really. There probably is not a logical explanation.. it just is what it is. I knew someone that waited for orders for 6 months after A school... class after class got orders before he did.

A British cartoon from 1820 entitled "Waiting Room at the Admiralty".

The poem on the wall reads.....

"In sore affliction, tried by God's command | Of patience, Job, the great example stands | But in these days, a trial more severe | Had been Job's lot, if God had sent him here."

Things haven't changed much.

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