Do not even bother looking at direct access. None of your billets will come from there. Your billets will be decided by taking a handful of darts and throwing them at a map.
Ok, the second part is me joking. We got two billets in Seattle, two in Virginia, one in Puerto Rico, two in Alaska, one in Hawaii, Guam, Boston, Detroit, and Michigan. We only had 1 cutter.The two classes ahead of us had 6 Alaska billets, 3 cutters, 4 or 5 in Virginia, 3 in California, one in Michigan, one in Detroit and Ohio, and 3 or 4 in new England.
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It's completely random. There are Airstas, Commstas, CAMSLANT and CAMSPAC, Sectors, and cutters over 210 feet. There is a group or two left in the CG as well, and you could go to any of them.
But the ones on DA are for people who are PCSing as OS3s, not a school grads.Honor: if you need it defined, you don’t have it.Old Guard2Moderator / Trusted MemberForum Supreme!Posts:1434911 Dec 2011 06:51 PM. Posted By ojrivera on 14 Dec 2011 11:59 PMOld Guard I'm in OS A-School right now. Tell your son to start reading up on logs and comms as much as he can. It is definetly a great rate to be a part of I will say. But I'll be graduating a few weeks after he gets here.
Maybe I'll get to meet him when they do the INDOC PT test.And once you get out in the 'real OS world' everything you just learned will go out the window.Yes, I was slightly perturbed.Honor: if you need it defined, you don’t have it.ojriveraBasic MemberPosts:33615 Dec 2011 06:17 PM. It is the steepest hill on the face of the earth. And it never ends. You think it ends at one point because it levels out but it just keeps going.its at the beginning of a 3 and a half mile run everyone gets to do the first week they are there in indoc.
Oh joy of joys. And during OS pt days (you still have mandatory pt in a school), there is an instructor that loves to run. Especially Texas hill.
It will hunt Colin for the rest of his days.Honor: if you need it defined, you don’t have it.NargilFenrisBasic MemberPosts:49616 Dec 2011 07:54 AM. Posted By ojrivera on 16 Dec 2011 04:53 PMIts not part of the mandatory PT but they have incorporated it more into the routine, and it isn't all that fun for people who haven't run in a while like some of my classmatesOh, you are lucky. TX hill was part of our mandatory PT a few times while I was there (maybe because it was summer?)Nargil, if you were there last year, how did you avoid it? It's just part of indoc for everyone now. And the OS classes got to run it a few more times and we had monthly PT tests. Did you at least do the SK/YN softball game?Honor: if you need it defined, you don’t have it.NargilFenrisBasic MemberPosts:49618 Dec 2011 04:09 AM.
Our pt run started at an arch way with all the chief and air force MSGT pins in it, around a giant field past a gazebo, back behind the YN building and ending behind the hall everyone reports in at. I was there from APR to May, second class to get the new 8 week course(yippy).Our weekly PT was ultimate Frisbee, volleyball, soccer, just spots stuff. And the SK/YN game never happened for some reason, I think because our class had 12 people and theirs had 8.If you were hoping for the A Team you will be sorry to know you got the F Troop.ETrusted MemberPosts:191818 Dec 2011 06:32 PM.
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