Not sure how quickly selection goes nowadays, but a lot of the people on the board I was selected on and the one after started OCS in August/September and checked into NAS Pensacola by December. I think you should be able to hit your goals, but just take everything one step at a time
Just out of curiosity and kind of a dumb question: Would one argue that Navy OCS is fairly easy to get into, but hard to get out of; whereas in Air Force OTS, it is very hard to get into, but easy to get out of?
"Hard to get out of" as in not all candidates will make it through due to the mental and physical strain of training, i.e., the graduation rate is lower than other branches. I was watching a video about the insights of OCS and in that it stated that candidates can "drop on request (DOR)" and are "reminded of it often" by the instructors. Correct me if I am wrong about any of the stuff I stated.
There is no board it was removed from the schedule during the last update. ISEL is "said" to be the only applications being reviewed.
I did show my recruiter the updated schedule and asked questions about ISEL. He explained that the board was originally canceled but is, in fact, still reviewing applications, including regular applications. He seemed pretty confident in his response. Maybe there’s some truth to what he said because I assume officer recruiters probably have no incentive to mislead their applicants??
yeah....right....
They absolutely have incentive to do whatever they can to keep applicants on the hook, they need to justify their time.
Any branch has positions that are easy to get and hard to get, you can't do a blanket statement and be accurate in this circumstance. Any person that goes to OCS can DOR, out process and go home, it isn't difficult but it is a process to make sure all the paperwork is done right.
