Ive never seen anyone coordinate schools for an individual sailor outside of a career counselor. Even then, they don’t do much for you but make a call to the phone number listed in CANTRAC to fill the spot which could’ve been completed by the Sailor anyhow. I fully understand how vacancies work. And with 100 seats classing up every three weeks, that’s a lot of opportunity. As it stands, there’s still over 20 vacancies in the next class that convenes on 10 feb, and over 50 in the 03 mar class that I was made available for. Past that, it goes up even higher. I’ve been reading through threads in this website, and waiting 3-5 months for a FINSEL doesn’t seem out of the ordinary. What I do think is quite bizarre is that most don’t receive them or their orders until 2 weeks prior to convening? That’s an absurd amount of time to expect a PCS, especially when you’re an AD service member.
I can understand smaller commands having people do multiple jobs, I have only been at large commands, and the CCC's were not involved in arranging schools, it was the training department and the schools coordinator, even our large departments had their own training division with a department schools coordinator, I ran that division on my last ship and the coordinator worked for me.
They do not utilize all 100, and you are thinking of it backwards, once they figure out when following on schools have openings then they look at what OCS class to put them in, they have had classes as low as 50 before, but it all depends on what the follow on schools look like.
The smaller the designator the more you can see the wait vary, there have been people here waiting for nearly a year in smaller designators.
100 are in the class that convened just a few weeks ago, according to CANTRAC. But I do understand that it will vary. Also, 4 days prior is absurd and miserable I’m sure
In regards to OCS CANTRAC is not always accurate, even when they capped OCS classes at 50 for many months the system showed they had a full class of 100, and it wouldn't be out of the ordinary to have people going to OCS from the NRD who weren't listed in CANTRAC, but they were on the spreadsheet from NRC saying they were going in a specific class.
