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Two More Weeks

I am actually starting to get pretty excited about what is going to happen. I am still waiting on darn MEPS. I want to get that cleared and out of the way so bad! My recruiter says he has submitted all of my medical documents that they have requested from me and now we just have to wait for them to see me. I hope I get cleared before the board convenes!
 
Renegade One said:
Welcome, "Captain Bringdown". Keep it up…good to have someone on the site who knows more than the ORs… :rolleyes:
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That honestly was not my intention, just merely trying to pass along information. If it is wrong than I wouldn't mind being corrected. Being enlisted in the Navy I'm always told to look up intructions and that is just what I did. I'm not on here to rain on anyone's parade, but rather to gain knowledge to better myself and/or be able to share it with other people in my command who may be unaware.
 
mikes3 said:
That honestly was not my intention, just merely trying to pass along information. If it is wrong than I wouldn't mind being corrected. Being enlisted in the Navy I'm always told to look up intructions and that is just what I did. I'm not on here to rain on anyone's parade, but rather to gain knowledge to better myself and/or be able to share it with other people in my command who may be unaware.
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No worries…you're good. I'll let it go if you will.
 
Tiffany Murphy said:
So far time has been going fast because we have had family visiting and going on trips but now we have nothing planned so I'm sure these 2 weeks are going to drag by. I have printed off some things to study and between running and crossfit, hopefully I can stay busy so the anticipation doesn't drive me crazy!
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Tell me about it I have been swimming a mile 3x a week running 4 miles 3x a week while doing P90X and doing push up/sit-up intervals adding to 150 push ups and 300 sit ups a day. And I increase everything each week.
 
I just talked to my officer recruiter today, and he told me that the board is meeting on the 20th. Has anyone else heard this? That would be next Saturday. Everywhere I look on here says the 15th, so I am pretty confused by the conflicting information.

Also, I called my recruiter to ask about MEPS, and he said a law just passed today that put officers on hold for going through MEPS. Anyone hear any word of this as well? He told me that it will not affect my package negatively, which I have read several times on here before, but I am concerned about what this new law means. He said it will mean that officers will no longer go through MEPS, but something else. Hopefully someone will help explain this!

Thanks in advance for clarifying for the confused folks like me!
 
The MEPS claim sounds ridiculous and I doubt the board has been pushed back. But I wouldn't trust me over your recruiter lol
 
I haven't heard anything about that as well. He completely caught me off guard by that. He said it just passed that day and that MEPS was on hold for now. I just wanted to hear if anyone else had heard that from their recruiter.

Plus, why would he say the board is on the 20th? Maybe he just isn't keeping up on the exact date? I just really hate hearing everyone talk about one date and have my main source of information tell me a completely different one.

The anxiety of wanting everything to go well isn't helping the situation at all either. I'm sure everyone here has an idea about what I'm saying.
 
holsson said:
I just talked to my officer recruiter today, and he told me that the board is meeting on the 20th. Has anyone else heard this? That would be next Saturday. Everywhere I look on here says the 15th, so I am pretty confused by the conflicting information.

Also, I called my recruiter to ask about MEPS, and he said a law just passed today that put officers on hold for going through MEPS. Anyone hear any word of this as well? He told me that it will not affect my package negatively, which I have read several times on here before, but I am concerned about what this new law means. He said it will mean that officers will no longer go through MEPS, but something else. Hopefully someone will help explain this!

Thanks in advance for clarifying for the confused folks like me!
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Not sure of a "law" being passed that would prevent OCS recruits from going to MEPS. Although from the perspective of how other officers get medically qualified, it would almost make sense in a weird way. I'll explain:

If you are commissioning through ROTC, AFROTC, NROTC, USNA, USMA, USAFA, and other select officer programs you go through a process called DODMERB. It stands for Department of Defense Medical Exam Review Board. Its basically a board of medical officers that decide whether or not you are medically qualified to be commissioned. They contract out the medical exams to local clinics in the candidate's area prior to acceptance for these commissioning programs.

The downside (or in some cases upside) to DODMERB is you do not deal with military docs as you would at a MEPS. The physical is conducted at the contracted clinic, and sent off to DODMERB for processing.

Ultimately the point I'm getting to is that I believe a majority of officers who enter a commissioning program encounter DODMERB at some point in the application process. It does NOT however apply to OCS, PLC, OCC, and OTS candidates for the time being. If a law was passed, it may be an attempt to consolidate all officer medical evaluations under one umbrella.
 
holsson said:
I haven't heard anything about that as well. He completely caught me off guard by that. He said it just passed that day and that MEPS was on hold for now. I just wanted to hear if anyone else had heard that from their recruiter.

Plus, why would he say the board is on the 20th? Maybe he just isn't keeping up on the exact date? I just really hate hearing everyone talk about one date and have my main source of information tell me a completely different one.

The anxiety of wanting everything to go well isn't helping the situation at all either. I'm sure everyone here has an idea about what I'm saying.
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The law may also refer to sequestration. Sequestration was implemented as a law in 2011 by congress to force the two parties to agree on a reduced deficit spending budget by 2013. As the parties could not agree to pass a budget in time an 85 billion dollar cut was made to the federal budget for the remainder of FY13. However an emergency resolution was in fact passed a couple months ago to continue funding through the end of FY13.

However, furloughs are being implemented in the DOD right now. My knowledge is that MEPS is switching from the regular 40 hour work week to 4 work days with 8 hours per day, a significant reduction in working hours.
 
Thank you for the feedback! It sounds like you have good reason for speculation, but I really am curious to hear more concrete confirmation on the subject by someone who has heard the same thing. If it is actually true, then I can't be the only one who has heard about this. I would really like to know if the reasons for it happening have to do with what you are saying, riseR.
 
holsson said:
I haven't heard anything about that as well. He completely caught me off guard by that. He said it just passed that day and that MEPS was on hold for now. I just wanted to hear if anyone else had heard that from their recruiter.

Plus, why would he say the board is on the 20th? Maybe he just isn't keeping up on the exact date? I just really hate hearing everyone talk about one date and have my main source of information tell me a completely different one.

The anxiety of wanting everything to go well isn't helping the situation at all either. I'm sure everyone here has an idea about what I'm saying.
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My guess is that he looked at the board schedule and remembered it was around the 20th. I asked my recruiter last week just to confirm and they said it will be held on the 15th. The 15th is also the published date that NRC has had scheduled for a while (the link has been posted on here a few times and I've seen the same thing in my recruiter's office). It would also seem weird to have a board scheduled on a Saturday.

Several months back the recruiters in my office weren't sure off the top of their heads if the Pilot/NFO/SWO board was going to be held in June or July (the app deadline was in June though). Just sort of goes to show that they got enough on their plate and I'm guessing that exact board dates are not as much of a concern for them compared to the deadline dates for submission.

Even if the board is held at a later date, it probably won't make too much of a difference. I doubt many (if any) applicants would hear back within those first couple days... but then again I'd really love to be wrong about that.
 
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