NRD Kansas City is ill equipped to have this program. I was in the program over a year and within that time I never had a recruiter assigned to me and spoke only to the processor.
I have been dismissed from this program for over an year and am thankful for that but I still have not signed any release paperwork or received a DD214.
IF you dont know what this program is about and think that your recruiting district will help guide you and prepare you, you are in for a rude awakening. I was technically "lost" within the system for over a year and then there was this made scramble to cover their mistake and place the blame on me.
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In December 2001, I signed my BDCP service agreement and joined U.S. Navy. Since this time my experience with the Navy has been full of contradictory information, mismanagement, and frustration. My complaint with the BDCP program is that I feel as though it has been misrepresented and falsely advertised.
I was informed in February 2003 that I was to be dis-enrolled from the BDCP program because I had failed to meet the minimum GPA requirements. This information came as a complete shock to me.
I met with the navy recruiting staff at the Kansas City office to review my paper work and to figure out my options, which were that I needed to apply to retake an exam from the previous semester and receive a current semester GPA of 2.7 to have my dis-enrollment revisited.
To my complete dismay included in my file was a letter dated July 15, 2002 from the Navy Recruiting Commander located in Millington, TN placing me on probation for not meeting the GPA requirements from my spring 2002 semester at California State University San Marcos. This probationary letter stated I had one semester to improve my grade-point average or I would be dis-enrolled from the BDCP program and ordered to serve 24 months enlisted active duty. I had not received or been informed of this probationary letter until my meeting in February 2003.
Since the time I was informed of my pending dis-enrollment from the BDCP program I have been actively searching to find where it is stated that the GPA requirements are based on both semester and cumulative GPA. I have spoken to Navy Recruiting District (NRD)-Indianapolis, NRD-Minneapolis, and NRD-St. Louis and always I am told that the GPA requirements are based on cumulative GPA. I have searched the Internet and all BDCP related websites only state the minimum GPA as being based off cumulative grade-point averages.
I have brought this to the attention of the NRD-Kansas City staff, which was then passed on to Commander B. What was then brought back as an answer was that Commander B’s interpretation of what was stated in my BDCP service agreement was to be taken to mean semester grade-point average.
Since the moment I was informed of my dis-enrollment situation I have been told on a number of occasions to “read my service agreement”. My service agreement states in section II part b:
“That I must maintain a grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.7 (on a 4.0 scale).”
This statement does not specify semester or cumulative GPA. Here in lies my dilemma, how does one interpret the word “maintain”. The interpretation I was told before signing my contract was to mean a continuous GPA of 2.7; meaning cumulative grade point average since each semester your GPA is brought back to zero.
I have been dismissed from this program for over an year and am thankful for that but I still have not signed any release paperwork or received a DD214.
IF you dont know what this program is about and think that your recruiting district will help guide you and prepare you, you are in for a rude awakening. I was technically "lost" within the system for over a year and then there was this made scramble to cover their mistake and place the blame on me.
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In December 2001, I signed my BDCP service agreement and joined U.S. Navy. Since this time my experience with the Navy has been full of contradictory information, mismanagement, and frustration. My complaint with the BDCP program is that I feel as though it has been misrepresented and falsely advertised.
I was informed in February 2003 that I was to be dis-enrolled from the BDCP program because I had failed to meet the minimum GPA requirements. This information came as a complete shock to me.
I met with the navy recruiting staff at the Kansas City office to review my paper work and to figure out my options, which were that I needed to apply to retake an exam from the previous semester and receive a current semester GPA of 2.7 to have my dis-enrollment revisited.
To my complete dismay included in my file was a letter dated July 15, 2002 from the Navy Recruiting Commander located in Millington, TN placing me on probation for not meeting the GPA requirements from my spring 2002 semester at California State University San Marcos. This probationary letter stated I had one semester to improve my grade-point average or I would be dis-enrolled from the BDCP program and ordered to serve 24 months enlisted active duty. I had not received or been informed of this probationary letter until my meeting in February 2003.
Since the time I was informed of my pending dis-enrollment from the BDCP program I have been actively searching to find where it is stated that the GPA requirements are based on both semester and cumulative GPA. I have spoken to Navy Recruiting District (NRD)-Indianapolis, NRD-Minneapolis, and NRD-St. Louis and always I am told that the GPA requirements are based on cumulative GPA. I have searched the Internet and all BDCP related websites only state the minimum GPA as being based off cumulative grade-point averages.
I have brought this to the attention of the NRD-Kansas City staff, which was then passed on to Commander B. What was then brought back as an answer was that Commander B’s interpretation of what was stated in my BDCP service agreement was to be taken to mean semester grade-point average.
Since the moment I was informed of my dis-enrollment situation I have been told on a number of occasions to “read my service agreement”. My service agreement states in section II part b:
“That I must maintain a grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.7 (on a 4.0 scale).”
This statement does not specify semester or cumulative GPA. Here in lies my dilemma, how does one interpret the word “maintain”. The interpretation I was told before signing my contract was to mean a continuous GPA of 2.7; meaning cumulative grade point average since each semester your GPA is brought back to zero.
