My son is looking to do IT, he's already taken ASVAB but waiting on a few waivers before MEPS, we're quite curious as to whether a basic training will be leaving before christmas for that job category if anyone else knows someone going in that direction. thanks!
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My niece is an IT on the George Washington she loves it.
and keeping in that line of funny thought:
And even funnier!
Now that's funny.
For what it's worth, my son enlisted in January, and actually started RTC on June 9, so that his basic training conclusion would coincide with the next IT class at Pensacola. No knowledge about when the next class might start, but in my son's case, yes, they scheduled his RTC to accommodate his IT A school.
the wait for a boot camp billets is varied and can be weeks or up to a year....while there is an attempt to correlate billets in A-schools to start dates, with budget issues that seems to matter little anymore. Having a high ASVAB is not unusual ( my daughter scored 95 and the Navy begged her to go Nuke....she said MC or nothing.....she got the MC rating) so you do have some "wiggle-room" in negotiations for rating and possible ship dates....often with long delays for RTC billets open up and often recruits are called earlier than their expected ship dates. In general I believe ship dates are generally 3-6 months.........
This is incredibly insightful, alsmost the same scenario we're going through right now. Thanks a lot. What is MC?
Mass Communications Specialist- a journalist in other words....as such she got to write for and help edit the award winning Penny Press- the weekly paper for the USS Abraham Lincoln as well as give tours to VIPS, take photos, be a DJ for the radio station and a myriad of other duties.
Basic is independent of whatever specialty the SR's contract for. Upon graduating, they move on to A School where they may have to wait to "class up"....(wait for a new class to form).
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