randomguyn64
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Apologies if this is in the wrong category. I’ve been wanting to post here for a while now but I keep putting it off. So, let me start from the beginning without getting TOO identifiable:
Graduated OCS several months ago, have been to therapy 6 years ago so therefore need a waiver. Whatever. Flight doc said my situation would be absolutely no problem, easy to get a waiver. Fast forward, finish my psych appt. 2 weeks after graduation, commissioning any day surely. She says waiver recommended, no big deal. Tells me a story of a guy who, at TWO YEARS OLD, went to family therapy and therefore needed a waiver for that. Cool story doc. My package to this very day has been sitting on flight doc’s desk not at NAMI yet, no big deal. I’m one of 2 holdouts from my class still not at NAMI. Visit home for the holidays, visit home for the holidays again, exchange gifts, happy holidays, now back to windy freezing RI. No big deal.
Those who don’t know, TMG stands for Talent Management Group and it’s where all the graduates who can’t immediately commission, mostly for medical clearance reasons, get put. We are also grouped with DORs who are getting out as well as people removed from training for medical purposes or attrition. They’ve done away with RHC. We muster on weekdays at 8:15 for a roll-call, and occasionally we’re on a duty section but largely our days are mind-numbingly boring. Study for NIFE, play video games, go to the gym, do whatever.
That is, until everyone got back from the holidays and we were informed that all the TMG graduates will be pulled for CandiO duties from January 16 to January 24. Evidently the powers that be left a CandiO vacuum during that time so we are the poor souls who have to be CandiOs twice during our time in RI. Now it’s only 8 days and the big billets have been double-booked since there are roughly 160 people in TMG right now, mostly grads. So, ultimately not much more work and probably even a nice change of pace for some. It’ll be interesting to see the Ensigns waiting on orders among us get attention-on-decked from the indocs, lol. Also interesting to think about what they’re gonna do to punish us if we screw up. Demerits at OCS for graduates? Imagine that, haha.
At the same time though it’s got me wondering. I have been here about twice as long as OCS is supposed to take, losing out on thousands of dollars in O-1 salary that I supposedly earned going through the program, and since I’m not medically cleared there is no getting that money back. Seeing all the people from classes that graduated after me get commissioned and head to Pensacola is super disheartening and the old saying “slow-motion is better than no-motion” loses its edge after a certain amount of time has passed. Call it a conspiracy theory but is it possible someone higher up purposefully held people back just to be a pool of CandiOs for this month? I mean, certainly they would have known the OCS schedule would leave a candiO vacuum well in advance, and what else could they do but inflate TMG to take up the slack?
Thus ends my rant. Fair winds and following seas, from Newport.
Graduated OCS several months ago, have been to therapy 6 years ago so therefore need a waiver. Whatever. Flight doc said my situation would be absolutely no problem, easy to get a waiver. Fast forward, finish my psych appt. 2 weeks after graduation, commissioning any day surely. She says waiver recommended, no big deal. Tells me a story of a guy who, at TWO YEARS OLD, went to family therapy and therefore needed a waiver for that. Cool story doc. My package to this very day has been sitting on flight doc’s desk not at NAMI yet, no big deal. I’m one of 2 holdouts from my class still not at NAMI. Visit home for the holidays, visit home for the holidays again, exchange gifts, happy holidays, now back to windy freezing RI. No big deal.
Those who don’t know, TMG stands for Talent Management Group and it’s where all the graduates who can’t immediately commission, mostly for medical clearance reasons, get put. We are also grouped with DORs who are getting out as well as people removed from training for medical purposes or attrition. They’ve done away with RHC. We muster on weekdays at 8:15 for a roll-call, and occasionally we’re on a duty section but largely our days are mind-numbingly boring. Study for NIFE, play video games, go to the gym, do whatever.
That is, until everyone got back from the holidays and we were informed that all the TMG graduates will be pulled for CandiO duties from January 16 to January 24. Evidently the powers that be left a CandiO vacuum during that time so we are the poor souls who have to be CandiOs twice during our time in RI. Now it’s only 8 days and the big billets have been double-booked since there are roughly 160 people in TMG right now, mostly grads. So, ultimately not much more work and probably even a nice change of pace for some. It’ll be interesting to see the Ensigns waiting on orders among us get attention-on-decked from the indocs, lol. Also interesting to think about what they’re gonna do to punish us if we screw up. Demerits at OCS for graduates? Imagine that, haha.
At the same time though it’s got me wondering. I have been here about twice as long as OCS is supposed to take, losing out on thousands of dollars in O-1 salary that I supposedly earned going through the program, and since I’m not medically cleared there is no getting that money back. Seeing all the people from classes that graduated after me get commissioned and head to Pensacola is super disheartening and the old saying “slow-motion is better than no-motion” loses its edge after a certain amount of time has passed. Call it a conspiracy theory but is it possible someone higher up purposefully held people back just to be a pool of CandiOs for this month? I mean, certainly they would have known the OCS schedule would leave a candiO vacuum well in advance, and what else could they do but inflate TMG to take up the slack?
Thus ends my rant. Fair winds and following seas, from Newport.
