Expeditionary Warfare School

[usmarinemike]

I'll throw in a vote for attending the actual school in Quantico. I just graduated this summer and it was truely a b!tch! But, there's no substitute for getting in amongst your peers from all over the MAGTF and learning a thing or three from them. Toss in a bunch of International Military Officers and reps from every other branch of the US military and you've got a legit school. I'll highly recommend it to everyone I run across for the remainder of my career; it was THAT good of an experience.

I've been told by many to go ahead and do the correspondence EWS, but be sure to do higher PME in residence. The reasoning being to stay out of the FMF for as short a period as possible as a company grade officer. Is that a legitimate concern? Did you do it in conjunction with a B billet in Quantico?

 

[Banjo33]

No, I took orders to Meridian. My timing is all screwed up, so I'm rolling the dice and trying to better time a trip back to the fleet. As I see it now, I get looked at for the 0-4 board this month. Think 2 years to pin it on and 3 years in the training command, best guess would be back in the fleet as a 2 year Major (with 3 years to pull a DH tour), if I'm lucky. If I were to go straight back to the fleet (which is an option coming out of EWS), I'd be an 0-4 for a year before heading off to next B-billet, with little to no opportunity for a DH tour.

I'd be interested to hear what the older guys have to say about that. Regardless, less than a year out of cockpit AND PME complete...how can you "stay out of the FMF" for any shorter amount of time?

 

[Clux4]

I was at the CCE building on Friday and was told of a new option called the "Blended Program" that allows students to come down to Quantico(EWS Campus) in conjunction with their online personal study. The catch is that your unit has to let you on TAD to Quantico for 2 week sessions. I am told the whole thing should take you 8 months from start to finish.

 

[Banjo33]

We actually took one or two non-reses with us to 29stumps for Occ Field Expansion Course (think mini CAX). Pretty good deal for them.

 

[Banjo33]

Thanks for the heads up HG! I'm planning for an AO tour, but hadn't considered Oki. That might actually not be a bad idea. Is that accompanied? I'm glad to hear my thinkings not too far out of the box. I'm trying to think post-usmc too, hopefully after 20+ though.

 

[jarhead]

boomer... I posted this in another thread... it might have some info that you'll find interesting but take it for what it's worth. Remember, once you are selected of O-4, you will be dealing with the Major monitor and one year DIFDEN orders for O-4's are very few and far between. Also remember this... if you take a 2 year gig after Meridian, that will be 5+ years out of Harrier cockpit.

There are plenty of dudes doing back to back flying gigs... since you had a 1 year break between your first fleet tour and the training command, don't let the monitor tell you that you have to do a DIFDEN gig after the training command. He won't send you straight to a MAG or sqd (unless you have a CO asking for you by name) but, for an example, he can send you DIFOP to 2dMAW or MWSS and you can get refreshed there and work you way back to the MAG. Don't be an ass about it and have a backup plan, as HD stated, but don't roll over for the monitor either.

PM me if you have any questions....I have a pretty good perspective on this. Good luck!

SF

 

[Banjo33]

Thanks for the heads up jarhead. I'm all qualed up and left on good terms, so I'm hopeful I'll have a couple people rooting for me when it's time. Glad to hear VT isn't "the kiss of death".

 

[KaiserSoze]

Anyone know anything new about online EWS gouge floating around?

 

[KaiserSoze]

Online EWS gouge?

Anyone heard of any new developments in the world of online EWS gouge?

 

[ArkhamAsylum]

But for those of us NOT taking the seminar...... where's all the gouge?

 

[STOVLer]

how do i get started? i'm at cherry point right now, moving to yuma in february. should i attempt to start a couple of the marinenet courses now, and then sign up for the seminar later?

 

[KBayDog]

Sign up via Marinenet for next Fall. Congrats. Your instructor is all kinds of AWESOME.

And for his SA, what is his instructor's drink of choice?

 

[whitesoxnation]

Does anyone know what the current status of the EWS programs are? Is this something that I can complete 100% online in a couple months if it is my primary focus? The EWS website is less than helpful.

 

[usmarinemike]

Does anyone know what the current status of the EWS programs are? Is this something that I can complete 100% online in a couple months if it is my primary focus? The EWS website is less than helpful.

Yeah, the EWS website isn't really for the EWSDEP program.

The preferred method is seminar. The secondary is all online, but still at the same pace as the seminar. The independent guided study is going away very soon, and the only way to get it is if you're in zone and need to square yourself away. Honestly, I would do all I could to stay in the physical seminar. It's the easiest.

The two best places to look that I know of are this maradmin, and the OPME link on Marinenet.

 

[Fastmover007]

WhiteSox,
Are there any study guides other than the outlines of each chapter. I volunteered for an IA and have a ridiculous amount of time out here. I am "trying" to actually do all the readings...FML. I am also taking notes- snails pace. I am looking for a prefilled study guide much like in flight school. Any idea? Semper.