Michael. One of my appraissers a LCDR AMDO was a recorder in the past board. He explained that the AMDO board use to be held twice a year, one in Feb and one in Jul. This was changed to one board a year where they pick the candidates for both FY18 and FY19. If you look at the board schedule, it does say FY18/ FY19 quota.
If it days N then that means you were a non-select, it would say ALT under status if you were. The blurb at the top shows up on everyones BOL whether selected not selected or altern
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I was just going to send you that link. However, I spoke with the other senior AMDOs and the AMDO OCM today and CNRC after my CO received an email from CNRC asking for a release date for me for OCS. This is the deal: Normally, Primaries/Alternates all go through OCS and the primaries commission prior to Oct 1st while alternates commission after Oct 1st. AMDO OCS quotas have been cut in half as of right now, and because of this, only the primaries will be processed with alternates moving up if a primary should drop out. He did say the first few alternates may be looking at an OCS class going into next year, while the last few will be looking at the following year, if possible. He did say that this can all change. Quotas can become available at any time. In the past it was a sure thing the alternates would commission after Oct 1st, this year it is not guarantee, but still possible especially depending on what number alternate you were is the way it was explained to me. I would contact the OCM so you can hear it yourself. I had an abundance of people telling me different things in the beginning.
@Kandyce Grant Thank you for the information. Are those two people you referring were last year primary or alternative? How were you able to find you were number two alternative? Mine says Alternative only on BOL.
There is a board every February normally. They normally pick for the current year and the following year. The OCM said they were picking into the future previously and now it has caught up. Because of this OCS quota limitation it is effecting how many personnel they can send. They need the AMDOs but they can only send a certain amount of AMDOs trough OCS each year is how it was explained to me. They are beefing up the SWO community so they were given some of he AMDO billets OCS is what I was told. This quota limitation was unforeseen is the way it sounded.
But that does not mean that you will not go, its just not for sure that you will :/. Kind of stuck in Limbo. It sucks for me because I got selected for LDO and I have to make a choice but I would be taking a risky chance over a guaranteed commission if I chose AMDO.They cannot send all the primary and alternate selectees through OCS at the same time, it doesn't work like that, a person goes through OCS then commissions immediately unless there is a medical/legal reason to hold.
Yep, I understand now. Thanks for the link.
You misunderstood what i said. I know they all cant go through at one time. I was saying that they all eventually would go through between the two fiscal years. But now that is not the case because of quota limitations.
I heard that too and i was like wow!