pcs/bupers/technical considerations

[vabiok2295]

Good afternoon and thank you for reading. Being enlisted and working just with my command NC to apply leaves me with many unanswered questions. I am wondering if anybody can shine light on the following issue:

I am active duty with five years to eaos. I am on shore duty and will be transferred to precom ddg1000 in May. I put an ocs application in in october. I may or may not be selected. Assuming I am not, the following are my curiosities:

If i find out in march, for instance, that I was not selected, will bupers allow me to put in an another application (assuming i have the relevant significant changes to my application to warrant expedited resubmission) when i am scheduled to pcs in only two months?

And secondly, assuming i pcs to my new ship before resubmitting, how much say does my new command have in disallowing me to resubmit from there? I am assuming i will have to prove myself onboard for a year or so to garner the relevant endorsements, but is there a chance the command may tell me for the next five years i am too critical to be granted a commission?

If you can answer any of these questions directly, indicate references that may be useful, or bring considerations to my awareness that i havent thought of, please do so. Thank you.

 

[navyhaz]

Good afternoon and thank you for reading. Being enlisted and working just with my command NC to apply leaves me with many unanswered questions. I am wondering if anybody can shine light on the following issue:

I am active duty with five years to eaos. I am on shore duty and will be transferred to precom ddg1000 in May. I put an ocs application in in october. I may or may not be selected. Assuming I am not, the following are my curiosities:

If i find out in march, for instance, that I was not selected, will bupers allow me to put in an another application (assuming i have the relevant significant changes to my application to warrant expedited resubmission) when i am scheduled to pcs in only two months?



And secondly, assuming i pcs to my new ship before resubmitting, how much say does my new command have in disallowing me to resubmit from there? I am assuming i will have to prove myself onboard for a year or so to garner the relevant endorsements, but is there a chance the command may tell me for the next five years i am too critical to be granted a commission?

If you can answer any of these questions directly, indicate references that may be useful, or bring considerations to my awareness that i havent thought of, please do so. Thank you.

All in chapter 4 of the 1420.

your first question, A resubmission is at the discretion of your Commanding Officer. "1) Applicants for OCS/ODS receiving permanent change of station orders for execution subsequent to applying for this program should not be transferred until officially notified of selection or non-selection. If a transfer directive is received, the CO shall notify the orders originating authority that the individual has applied for selection for the OCS/ODS Program and that orders are being held in abeyance until notification of selection or non-selection. If the applicant is selected, NAVPERSCOM order originator will be notified by the fleet OCS processor that the individual has been selected. The transfer orders will then be cancelled and orders for officer training will be issued. If the applicant is not selected, the command should transfer the individual and notify the orders originator and the gaining command that the orders have been executed."

TLDR you will be held pending board results.

Your second question. Again, at the discretion of your new CO. You can apply right away, there is no TOS requirements when applying for a commission. If you hold a critical billet, the skipper must agree to take a gap billet for the remainder of the time you were supposed to be attached. His/Her manpower 'needs' will take precedence.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

I would contact the OCS help desk as given when you submitted you should have been seen by I think Supply maybe SWO, the bad thing is usually Supply doesn't pick people who don't list them 1 or 2, same with SWO and Intel.

Your profile says you are now 30, so you probably have one maybe 2 shots before you age out of SWO and Supply, I would say given your degree and GPA your best bet is SWO.

I have had CO's who would only recommend people for OCS who had qualified or requalified ESWS and had qualified on their required watchstations.