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11JUL17 Pilot/NFO board

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Safashton

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Carina said:
So basically no one will get selected for both, it's either one or the other. The only thing that sucks is that if you only picked one your chances of being selected goes down. Wish they would have put this out before we submitted
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Well hurts your chances, but honestly it's a very serious choice. One career path puts you as very marketable with a very tangible skill (pilot), where as the other not so much a particular skill. So unless you truly just want to serve doing whatever, apply both, otherwise if you have the stamina, apply for just pilot unless you become age critical. That's my two cents and what I'll be doing. I'm about age critical, so we'll see how July goes.
 
FormerRecruitingGuru

FormerRecruitingGuru

Making Recruiting Great Again
Safashton said:
Well hurts your chances, but honestly it's a very serious choice. One career path puts you as very marketable with a very tangible skill (pilot), where as the other not so much a particular skill. So unless you truly just want to serve doing whatever, apply both, otherwise if you have the stamina, apply for just pilot unless you become age critical. That's my two cents and what I'll be doing. I'm about age critical, so we'll see how July goes.
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Define "skills" before you dig yourself into a deep hole with the NFOs on this thread...
 
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MJ0608

Member
Hey again, I wanted to know if anyone has an idea of how a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge and subsequent waiver affect my application. This was 3 years ago while in university, immediately after completing probation I transferred out of state to a different school to get away from old influences and begin again. I wrote this in my waiver explanation paragraph. Im having a hard time finding info to a case similar to mine.

Astbe 51 6/6/6
Case western reserve university
Aerospace E and Mechanical E
Gpa: 3.2
Applying for SNA
Age: 22
 
Angel17

Angel17

Well-Known Member
Michael LaFramboise said:
Hey again, I wanted to know if anyone has an idea of how a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge and subsequent waiver affect my application. This was 3 years ago while in university, immediately after completing probation I transferred out of state to a different school to get away from old influences and begin again. I wrote this in my waiver explanation paragraph. Im having a hard time finding info to a case similar to mine.

Astbe 51 6/6/6
Case western reserve university
Aerospace E and Mechanical E
Gpa: 3.2
Applying for SNA
Age: 22
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I am in the same boat as you, I have a waiver in for Marijuana but it was before I joined the Marine Corps five years ago.. I don't have much of an answer for you but you're not alone in having a waiver for it
 
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MJ0608

Member
Angel17 said:
I am in the same boat as you, I have a waiver in for Marijuana but it was before I joined the Marine Corps five years ago.. I don't have much of an answer for you but you're not alone in having a waiver for it
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Thank you for the response friend, I guess we'll see how it plays out in two weeks. My OSO has only every had 5 applicants need the waiver, some accepted some not so I thought I'd ask here.
 
Triumph4life

Triumph4life

Well-Known Member
Michael LaFramboise said:
Hey again, I wanted to know if anyone has an idea of how a misdemeanor marijuana possession charge and subsequent waiver affect my application. This was 3 years ago while in university, immediately after completing probation I transferred out of state to a different school to get away from old influences and begin again. I wrote this in my waiver explanation paragraph. Im having a hard time finding info to a case similar to mine.

Astbe 51 6/6/6
Case western reserve university
Aerospace E and Mechanical E
Gpa: 3.2
Applying for SNA
Age: 22
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A friend of mine is at OCS now and he made it with an underage drinking while on Active Duty. I would say if you just owned the mistake you should be fine? He wrote a book about his mistake in his package but I'm sure they didn't take the time to read the entire thing. Don't take this as gospel, but I would think not mentioning it at all would be worse.
 
FormerRecruitingGuru

FormerRecruitingGuru

Making Recruiting Great Again
Triumph4life said:
A friend of mine is at OCS now and he made it with an underage drinking while on Active Duty. I would say if you just owned the mistake you should be fine? He wrote a book about his mistake in his package but I'm sure they didn't take the time to read the entire thing. Don't take this as gospel, but I would think not mentioning it at all would be worse.
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Underage drinking isn't as severe as a drug possession charge.
 
Angel17

Angel17

Well-Known Member
Michael LaFramboise said:
Thank you for the response friend, I guess we'll see how it plays out in two weeks. My OSO has only every had 5 applicants need the waiver, some accepted some not so I thought I'd ask here.
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Actually I read that wrong lol I didn't have a possession charge just admitted to trying it before I joined..
 
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MJ0608

Member
Triumph4life said:
A friend of mine is at OCS now and he made it with an underage drinking while on Active Duty. I would say if you just owned the mistake you should be fine? He wrote a book about his mistake in his package but I'm sure they didn't take the time to read the entire thing. Don't take this as gospel, but I would think not mentioning it at all would be worse.
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The entire thing is in my package with all the info, I wouldn't think about not telling my OSO or NRC.
 
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MJ0608

Member
My OSO was pretty confident in my application besides the charge, saying if I were denied he have imagine it would most likely be the possession charge.
 
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