I can't see them not holding a board sometime in the near future.. Just let the dust settle.. Everything will work itself out. People coming in here with talks of there not being a board for another full year or more is just getting everyone worked up. All these recruiters don't exactly know the cut and dry answer. Like one said they just push papers from one pile to another and a lot of them tell you what they believe is true which is opinion based. Why do you think so many people keep coming on here with different stories. I wouldn't trust my recruiters word for anything. He's been wrong on so many accounts it's horrible.
All that information I got wasn't from my local recruiter, it was as close to the horses mouth as you're going to get. It also included the reasoning which seemed to be lacking in other descriptions. That being said I don't entirely disagree, once things settle down and they get a CR done I'd like to think there will be a board in a few months.
BTW.. I told my recruiter I expect to have to put in for a waiver or two and asked him if I could get meps out of the way. He told me they don't let you do that because it'd be a waste of my time and waste of Navy's money it I don't get accepted. Does this hold any truth for anyone else attempting this? Or is this more smoke being blown up my ass. He tells me I should get more flying hours for the next board, which I intend to, but if he's talking about wasting money, it'd be a waste of money to pay for pilot hours if I wouldn't be accepted. He doesn't make any sense...
Not sure why your recruiter didn't have you do MEPs. I did MEPs and had my complete background check done. Getting the background check done was actually much more of a curse than a blessing. Despite trying to keep this on the DL until I was selected it let pretty much every significant person in my life from school, to work, to neighbors, to friends, know exactly what I was doing. Trust me when the "FBI" calls asking to have an interview about you it gets peoples attention. No one ever believes they would go through all of that unless you were selected.
Also just a little FYI. If you want to make a convincing argument you want to be a pilot, saying more money spent on flying is "wasting" it, even though I understand what you're getting at, really doesn't come across all that well. Sure it's not as glorious as a T-6B, Viper, SH-60, or F/A-18, but flying is flying. If you find trolling around the pattern in a 150/172 easy/dull (understandable) find something interesting, don't let it become a chore. I was already at the easy/dull mindset after about 3 hours in a C150, then I tried flying a taildragger and got a big wake up call. 13 hrs and my solo cert later, I'm having a blast. If no one rents a TD around you, try and find a glider club, both will do wonders for your stick and rudder skills. I'd always been of the "I want to fly military GA flying is stupid" mindset, until I started venturing away from the typical "flight training" path and quickly got to the point where even if I wasn't applying for the military I'd still be flying. There is a reason guys who fly very cool aircraft for a living still like to get in a Stearman or Cub when they can.