Congrats! Way to utilize that first post!
Thanks y'all! When my recruiter gave me the news I just about pissed myself. I've been in the process of "applying as an officer in the Navy" for over a year. Half of it is my fault, though.
I graduated May 2008. I had pretty much all my paperwork done except LOR's because my recruiter had yet to send them to me. His office was about 2 hours from my house and I was working like crazy, so I didn't have a lot of time to drop by his office and bug him about it. Not to mention he almost never responded to email or voicemail. I finally got them around December 2008.
In August I decided to get LASIK eye surgery so that I could shoot for pilot. Unfortunately you have to wait 6 months after any surgery before joining, so the earliest I could join would have been March of this year.
Anyways my recruiter was unresponsive so one day I decided to just drop in his office. Turns out he had gone through a divorce, and had shipped out to God knows where. They were just about to toss my entire package into the "Dead Files" bin, or throw it out, or whatever, so I arrived just in time. I got transfered to another recruiter.
Around this time I made a habit of driving 4 hours round trip just to stop by the office. I never even made appointments anymore, I just dropped in. I basically drove there all of the time to push the paperwork through, and I visited the office so often that they recognized me and just buzzed me in when I showed up at their doorstep. I think they finally processed everything just to get me out of their hair.
Moral of the story: constantly annoy people? I don't know. I'm just glad that I finally got it. Now for the big wait.
