Yes , thankfully I protected the General, and the rest of the LOR's came from all my employers and commanding officers. I have my fingers crossed on this one because other than my OAR being a 48. I have been told by several that between my law enforcement career and going through school with a big family, volunteering and so on it helps a lot allegedly.
OAR is ok, GPA is ok, degree is ok but a technical one would be a lot better
I have been a deputy and a reservist for the last 5 years everyone has been in direct observation of my work ethic, and all the extensive investigations I have taken part of have also been included in the LOR's. The General was also very direct and went into detail about my time with him and his direct reccommendation for a commission. I hope his words are a god sent. My current commander the Major also added my additional duties as a liason with the intelligence community in our command. I thank you for your feedback and input with this process. I even went to the extent to get the last LOR from a professor who I have taken numerous amount of courses with and was a former officer as well. I'm pulling out all the bells and whistles on this one.
billets get reduced and people get pushed from one FY to another, I am still a bit doubtful a board will actually happen when they only have 10 spots to pick and 2 boards to do it in.
Those direct observations will help, the biggest negative it looks like is the degree, just in my office, not my district, we have 5 applying with tech degrees with the lowest GPA being just below 3.5 and I am not hopeful for any of them because there are people applying that have worked with companies in DC with gov't intel agencies, that is why the NRD that covers DC generally gets the majority of selections, and the fact they are looking at 600+ applications for 10 spots.
Each board will see your application, but if your degree and job are geared to Suppy that is your best bet since I am guessing you don't have a tech degree.
That is good to know. Thank you. I feel most comfortable with supply, however, i was advised to also list Intel and IW because of my age. They were the ones I qualified for due to my age. I was granted an age waiver for supply.
How old are you? prior service?
32, no prior
well, age waivers are only given for prior service, and the board is the one that gives the thumbs up to them, so what has happened in the past is either the board declines to review the package or they are automatically given a pro no.
That is what I am hoping, but few people back at Millington can tell a Captain "you need to sign these now"
