I have been selected last December for CEC DCO, but I haven’t received my FINSEL yet. Has anyone received theirs or have insight on when to expect it?
yes , I signed it a few weeks ago .Thanks
DCO FINSEL can take a while for a variety of reasons, particularly:
1. You might be a next fiscal year selection (i.e. can't commission until 1 October) and
2. You need to be scrolled/appointed as an ENS/O-1, which requires SECDEF signature + approval.
#2 can be the biggest hold up and until OSD approves your appointment, you cannot receive a FINSEL and commission.
When officers are originally commissioned or promoted, Title 10 requires appointment by either the President, sometimes with advice and consent of the Senate, or by the Secretary of Defense. A list of individuals to be appointed, prepared for signature by the President or the Secretary, is referred to as a
scroll, and hence the process of preparing and processing a list is informally called
scrolling.
The OCS kids this process is quicker because they have all of OCS to be scrolled/appointed (also, they enlist vice commission first), DCO because they go to ODS on the "back end" (within a year of commissioning), the scrolling must be done first before a FINSEL can be generated.
