android1010
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Good morning. Has anyone, other than Husker, receive their Final Select letter?
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FY 2012 IDC Boards
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navgovie
IW Officer
Not me either. I still have to complete my medical evals which should be done this week.
I am now living in the Central Connecticut area and would like to get in touch with a good and attentive recruiter. I'm being told that the nearest officer recruiter is in Boston. Given the fact that CT is home to a major Naval Base and a Service Academy, I am sure there are recruiters lurking around here somewhere. Please help.
I'm going for Intel as the first choice and Supply as a second or fall back choice.
navgovie
IW Officer
Interestingly enough, with the regards to the medical, I am doing neither. We have a Navy hospital in our region and the recruiter is having most officer recruits walked through there. A liaison came with us to the hospital and took us from department to department over a couple days (based on our work schedule), and made sure we got all the proper exams and paper work checked off.
As a side note, I had my last appointment today and was declared fit for duty after a final exam.
Hello All:
Happened upon this board in doing a search for resources that might help me as I am trying to get a commission in Intel and will submit my package to the March 2012 Board (which I believe meets 19 March 2012 or thereabouts). Folks on this board are indeed impressive. By way of background:
Happened upon this board in doing a search for resources that might help me as I am trying to get a commission in Intel and will submit my package to the March 2012 Board (which I believe meets 19 March 2012 or thereabouts). Folks on this board are indeed impressive. By way of background:
- 39 years old
- Male
- Currently senior counsel at an 800 lawyer firm that practices in global financial capital markets (structured finance)
- Represented a vast majority of major global investment banks at one time or another in cross-border financing transactions
- No prior military experience (although father was a reserve army major corp of engineers, grandfather was sailor in WWII and I did some Army ROTC time)
- Political Science BA, Cum Laude, with International Relations Minor
- JD, Magna Cum Laude, Law Review
- 4 strong recommendation letters from investment banking clients and colleagues
- Letter of recommendation from local Congress Person (on house select permanent committee on intelligence)
- Volunteer through Church
jms4netsec
INFOSEC/IA SME
Regrettably, my experience tells me that 'Mr. Innocent's' experience is likely something more than a snafu, and 'persistance' made little difference for me. I'd been applying since 2008, and in 5 packages, my first and fourth (last March) never made it to the board, even though all of my material had been submitted, as directed, and on time. And I'd never have known about either of those late packages had I not done my own homework, since nobody at NRD (Naval Recruiting District) told me voluntarily or owned up to it when I found out about then when I queried NRC/Millington (in each case).
And like many, I had hit all the necessary points: industry relevant experience, graduate degree with high GPA, Weight/PFT, 5 excellent officer interviews (including a former IP/IW community manager), and LORs (including a retired O-8), and numerous industry certifications, and strong support from individuals like the Reserve Commander at 10th Fleet/Cybercom. The only obvious outliers in my package would seem to have been age and re-code (3K, Secretarial Board action). While I required (and received) an age waiver, and my sep code was granted *specifically* so that I could be commissioned, there's still NO reasonable excuse for packages not getting to the board on time, except a failure on the part of the NRD recruiter or someone farther up the chain -- IMO.
FWIW - My 5th package went to this last board, but was I informed before the board convened that my package was not forwarded to the board by the admin review because I'd (finally) aged out of the DCO program (50, this summer). While, I'm not surprised, I am definintely disappointed. No telling what the outcome might have been had I gotten the looks I earned at those two missed boards.
Long story short - do your own homework, ride your recruiter, double check everything.
There is no excuse. The Officer recruiter drives everything and should be held accountable. If I were in your shoes and had two packages that never made it, I would have unleashed hell and notified everyone from the recruiters CO all the way up to Admiral Gay, Commander, Navy Recruiting Command. I may have even filed an IG complaint.
Sage advice.
jms4netsec
INFOSEC/IA SME
In fact, I did wind up going to the IG with a complete e-mail thread documenting the first instance. Ultimately, they did not elect to pursue an investiation. However, they did guarantee me (directly, in writing) that my second package would be reviewed (and it was).
As for the fourth package, a different OPO dragged his feet but supposedly 'got permission' from NRC to send it in late. But once it arrived late, the board admin still refused to review it. And whoever it was who 'approved sending it in late', they were never identified to me.
I found out about both of these instances by calling Millington directly (strongly discouraged by NRDs, since it makes your recruiter look like he's not doing his job). In fact, until last March, I'd never received a single piece of correspondence from the U.S. Navy on letterhead (save for the letter from the NRC IG). My OPO said my NONPROREC letters were in my file. I had to remind him that their presence in my file does not mean that they were ever mailed to me. Only then did he e-mail copies of them to me.