AMDO Board - Feb 22, 2016

[Jason Candelario]

Male 31
6 years of service, 2.5 as First Class
OAR 54
Bachelor's 4.0 GPA accepted for Masters in Aeronautical Science.
Eval: P(1st E6), MP, EP (SOY)
Appraisal- 3x O5 (all 10s), 1x LOR O5
I took DAU acquisition courses to learn and to show that I am serious about AMDO.
SAPRVA, FCPOA VP
3 NAMs, FLOC, bunch of LOCs and a few other small ribbons.
I only applied for AMDO!!! They seemed to like it during the appraisals...
FA18s, full systems QAR, 120 LPO (last 15 months)

Not sure what popped on my application, I have seen some strong numbers here. I think my OAR and GPA were higher that's about it... Let me know if you want to know more I will gladly help in any way I can.

Congrats!! I am also selected for FY17

 

[Jason Candelario]

Where are you stationed?

 

[AMDO2B]

Bro we just talked this afternoon.

 

[Jason Candelario]

hahaha.. did recognize this was you bro.... my bad

 

[Blue to Green to Blue]

34 (35 in June)
AE2
OAR - 65
BA (Political Science- 2005, History - 2006) - 2.68
MS in Aeronautical Science in progress - 4.0
DAU courses
Air Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct (Army & Navy)
Interviews from 3 different LDO O-6 (6330), O-5 AMDO, Reserve PAO O-6
MP, EP, MP

#3 Alternate, following 7 selectees (forgot how many alternates total)


Alternates stand by...make sure your phones are near by....that's all I'll say!

 

[Blue to Green to Blue]

Also, saw some questions about age. Right now the max age is 35 by time of commissioning (waivers entertained, PA doesn't really mention this though). I got some insight from a senior AMDO that the community is pushing to have that limit changed to 42; that may happen sometime this year.

 

[JORGE]

hahaha.. did recognize this was you bro.... my bad

Congrats Jason, what are your stats?

 

[Jason Candelario]

Congrats Jason, what are your stats?

Thanks!

27
AD1 - 9 Years (3 years as E6)
OAR - 46
BA in Organizational Management - 3.04
Officer PPME KNO Courses (B1 - B7)
NAM-x4, MOVSM, FLOC-x2
Interviews with 3 CDR 1520's, 2 LCDR 1520s, 1 LT 6330
2015 SOY
EP,EP,EP

#1 Alternate following the 7 selectees.

 

[AMDO2B]

34 (35 in June)
AE2
OAR - 65
BA (Political Science- 2005, History - 2006) - 2.68
MS in Aeronautical Science in progress - 4.0
DAU courses
Air Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Good Conduct (Army & Navy)
Interviews from 3 different LDO O-6 (6330), O-5 AMDO, Reserve PAO O-6
MP, EP, MP

#3 Alternate, following 7 selectees (forgot how many alternates total)


Alternates stand by...make sure your phones are near by....that's all I'll say!

Congrats, looks like you, Jason and I will be in the same year group. Looking forward to meeting you. FY16s are getting their FINSEL already so hoping ours are coming soon.

 

[AMDO2B]

The order of alternates is alphabetical...

 

[Blue to Green to Blue]

The order of alternates is alphabetical...

Not so...the board determines the ranking of the alternates.

 

[AMDO2B]

Not so...the board determines the ranking of the alternates.

You are right, by the way you killed the OAR!

 

[Blue to Green to Blue]

Yeah man...had to have something good going for me! GPA sucks! lol.

Luckily I took it so long ago that it was still the paper version...this new computer-based ASTB seems tough! Doesn't affect the OAR, of course, but still, it looks tough!

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Yeah man...had to have something good going for me! GPA sucks! lol.

Luckily I took it so long ago that it was still the paper version...this new computer-based ASTB seems tough! Doesn't affect the OAR, of course, but still, it looks tough!

The electronic version can be better, if a person make an error on the old paper version it hurts you, but on the electronic version it can be overcome because it is adaptive

 

[Blue to Green to Blue]

Yeah the ASVAB is adaptive too, but I don't know that the results are that much different than with a non-adaptive test. Maybe at the mid ranges there might be a notable change, but at either edge of the spectrum I imagine it'd be about the same. No idea. But at least with the paper version you could study and prepare for the ASTB portion; with this new version you really can't.