May boards

[RussBow6]

my OR sent mine in late april (around the 23rd) and i talked to him yesterday and he said i made it into all three boards (intel, swo, supply). I'm glad too, because i am running out of money. Also, does anyone know how long it would take to start OCS if I haven't gone to MEPS or done my PRT?

depends on where your closest meps and prt site is... just go get it done and you wont have to wait as long either way. beyond that i have no idea... theres a lot of talk around here that ocs dates are being pushed back to the fall so ocs could start then.

how does the money thing work anyway? i figured we wouldnt get paid until we reported for ocs in RI?
people ask about loans too but i think i'd wait till i made it through ocs and had my commission before i took out a starter loan or a car loan...?

thoughts?

 

[Megamatt]

we only get paid when we are active duty, which starts with OCS. I believe we get E-5 pay throughout OCS then it just depends on ur billet

 

[DaveI]

T minus 1 day until board... the anxiety is building. I better spend the next few nights at the bar. Anyone have an idea of when we'll know if we're selected? I assume by next Friday but I hope it's sooner.

 

[cjfessler]

T minus 1 day until board... the anxiety is building. I better spend the next few nights at the bar. Anyone have an idea of when we'll know if we're selected? I assume by next Friday but I hope it's sooner.

My OR said most likely the beginning to middle of next week.

 

[blarged]

T minus 1 day until board... the anxiety is building. I better spend the next few nights at the bar. Anyone have an idea of when we'll know if we're selected? I assume by next Friday but I hope it's sooner.

An FYI for those that may not look at the past month threads.

It looks as though the schedule for community meetings last month were approximately as follows:

SNA/NFO/SWO:
* board met: 15th of the month
* result out: 21st of the month
IW/INTEL/SUPPLY:
* 29th of the month
* results out: 1st (or 4th maybe because the 1st was Friday and results were out late afternoon) of the following month

Now these are my best guesses from following the thread and when people posted. So please don't read this as the Bible of May Board Dates. This is just my research of what has happened in the past and speculation of what just might happen this month as well.

Good luck all!

Just reposting my original speculations, but as there are more people lurking around this thread now, these are the dates I collected from last month. I would say next Friday is a relatively good assumption

 

[blarged]

My OR told me yesterday that while checking up on my package I had an X next to my SWO/IW application for June... which "usually means something is wrong with your package". But I figure there is good time to figure that one out, I'm not worried. My OR pretty much rocks...

Turns out I am not eligible for SWO/IW. I got a not-so-great grade in a Calculus class back freshman year... so I am a no go.

I am still good for IW in May though. The difference in eligibility between SWO/IW and IW with regards to grades in a Calculus class doesn't make much sense to me. I would think that if I were eligible for IW grade wise, I would be eligible for SWO/IW.

Oh well though, I had SWO/IW for the sole purpose of getting to IW.

 

[Speedy3]

I thought I was going to be in on the April boards and monitored a few of the threads for months before that as well. It seems to me that certain ORs have inside info and can usually pull the the lists out early. I guess the results for the March boards were out on the 13th or so! NOTE: This is all hearsay from this site....nothing I know on my own.

 

[KLT]

Just got off the phone with my recruiter, and he said that SNA/NFO are out a week from tomorrow ( friday the 22nd) BUT he also said that perhaps they might come out earlier.

gah! I'm not great at waiting. patience?? uh, they didn't teach us that in the sorority...

 

[cjfessler]

When I was up for board it was scheduled to be held on a Friday. The board results CAME OUT THE DAY THE BOARD WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HELD. Ha ha, just throwing some more anxiety out there.

Edit: as mentioned above, yes it was for March. I took the astb on Friday the 13th in Feb and got rejected on Friday the 13th in March. Oooooo scary.

My OR also said that was a possibility - but not to count on it :icon_tong

 

[DaveI]

my OR is starting to rely on me for information with the amount of crap you can find out on these forums ha!

Let's hope for tomorrow, but a week isn't so bad. Does anyone have an idea of demand for pilots. Before I was told it was high and made a post about it, but now everyone is saying that OCS is taking the summer off pretty much and wont start a new class until 09 August. I could imagine that the numbers of pilots needed would decrease significantly if that is the case.

 

[blarged]

This should keep you busy and you minds off of when the boards are meeting:
Hats On A Death Row (riddle)


You are one of 20 prisoners on death row with the execution date set for tomorrow. Your king is a ruthless man who likes to toy with his people's miseries. He comes to your cell today and tells you:
“I’m gonna give you prisoners a chance to go free tomorrow. You will all stand in a row (queue) before the executioner and we will put a hat on your head, either a red or a black one. Of course you will not be able to see the color of your own hat; you will only be able to see the prisoners in front of you with their hats on; you will not be allowed to look back or communicate together in any way (talking, touching.....).

The prisoner in the back will be able to see the 19 prisoners in front of him. The one in front of him will be able to see 18…

Starting with the last person in the row, the one who can see everybody in front of him, he will be asked a simple question: WHAT IS THE COLOR OF YOUR HAT?

He will be only allowed to answer “BLACK” or “RED”. If he says anything else you will ALL be executed immediately.

If he guesses the right color of the hat on his head he is set free, otherwise he is put to death. And we move on to the one in front of him and ask him the same question and so on…

Well, good luck tomorrow, HA HA HA HA HA HA!”

Now since you all can communicate freely during the night, can you find a way to guarantee the freedom of some prisoners tomorrow? How many?

 

[Krafty1]

my OR is starting to rely on me for information with the amount of crap you can find out on these forums ha!

Let's hope for tomorrow, but a week isn't so bad. Does anyone have an idea of demand for pilots. Before I was told it was high and made a post about it, but now everyone is saying that OCS is taking the summer off pretty much and wont start a new class until 09 August. I could imagine that the numbers of pilots needed would decrease significantly if that is the case.

I guess its my turn to contribute to the rumor mill. My recruiter told me the boards over-selected for NFO and underselected for pilots and were asking qualified NFO selectee's to switch to SNA. Now that makes me think that the boards would be selecting a lot of SNA applicants in the near future. Based on April's results (about 39% selection for SNA) I tend to think the numbers are going to go down again rather than up but I'm hoping for another board in the 70% selection range, that would be awesome .

 

[Megamatt]

I was contacted today by a security clearance person asking to set up a meeting date. Does this have any implications?

 

[revan1986]

I can't believe it's been over 2 weeks since I submitted my application. Back then I thought this time would never come but I've been so busy with work that the last 2 weeks felt like 2 days. Here's to hoping the May boards won't be as stringent as the last few months!

 

[admyj0609]

I was contacted today by a security clearance person asking to set up a meeting date. Does this have any implications?

This is standard security check. All they are gona do is go over your SF 86 (security questionaire) that you filled out..

I am stationed here in Japan and I could not believe that they flew someone over here from the states to talk to me about my security clearance... Do not be scared most of the questions they gonna ask is already answered in your sf-86. They go in depth with some family background but that's about it.