2007-12-08 03:10:15 · 7 answers · asked by d 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
If you do well in your A-School you will get to fill out a dream sheet to pick your assignment, you will pick several places that they have openings available in the order that you want them. My son just got his first choice a month ago. I am the parent of two children in the Navy.
2007-12-08 10:14:21 · answer #1 · answered by John Y 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it is anything like the Coast Guard, which it probably is, then a few weeks before you graduate boot camp you can fill out what they call a dream sheet. You list 3 places you want to go and 3 places you don't want to go. If any of the 3 you picked are open you may get to go there. Like someone said it all depends on the needs of the Navy though. If they need you somewhere else then they will put you there.
Also before you graduate A school you do the same thing (fill out a "dream sheet")
2007-12-08 12:20:58 · answer #2 · answered by Bandit_ 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you do well in your A school and graduate top of your class, they sometimes allow you to submit a request for the duty station you want. Its all up to the needs of the Navy though.
2007-12-08 11:26:27 · answer #3 · answered by Denise S 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I hope not. Too many would be stationed at home.
When I signed up about 48 years ago, my guaranteed first duty station after training was wherever the Navy needed me. My enlistment bonus was the assurance that they would try not to kill me in boot camp. I had a specialty in mind, but was "recruited" in boot camp to go for another. I did my first hitch in that specialty. When I reenlisted, somebody rediscovered my degree and recommended me for OCS. I spent 25 years in. I retired at 45. I live in a house I purchased with a VA loan. I got two degrees on the GI bill. I have a good income. I have access to VA and military medical and dental services. I can fly to just about any place in the world for free. In view of all that, where I spent the first couple of years I was in the Navy doesn't seem all that important.
Generally, the first duty station is boot camp. Often, the next duty station is "A" school for some specialty training. The third is... and should be... wherever the navy needs him.
The reason people should go to the recruiter is -- or should be -- out of a desire to serve their country. He enlists in a branch of the service to meet that branch's needs. If one goes to the recruiter with the idea of getting everything he wants, he deserves whatever he gets.
Over the course of ones career in the Navy, when one is about to be transferred one fills out a "dream sheet." On this form one lists four shore stations and four sea stations in order of preference. Usually one transfers from sea duty to shore duty, or from shore to sea. I know one guy who put as first choice for sea duty, a carrier, and for shore duty a specific base on the West Coast. He got a carrier, the home port of which was that specific base on the West Coast. Doesn't always happen that way. I've also known guys who ask for the West Coast and get the East Coast.
When one goes to the recruiter, they should go with the idea that the recruiter cannot promise anything other than to ask for certain things in ones behalf. It's kind of like your first "dream sheet." But the needs of the Navy... of all the branches... change from day to day. Between the time you sign up and the time you leave for boot camp, the needs may well have changed.
President Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country."
2007-12-08 12:22:57 · answer #4 · answered by gugliamo00 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
As others have pointed out, it depends...
IF you're a NON-RATE, you're going to MAYBE get to pick your COAST.
IF you're an A-School grad, you'll get to pick from a LIST from the detailer (in order of your class-score). Though THAT doesn't always work... I was first in my AW A-school class and picked P-3 Orions, NAS Moffett Field (hometown)... and that worked until the detailer called back and pointed out to the A-school instructors that I was a SAR-Swimmer graduate.... "ooops I TRIED !!"
It ALL depends on that imfamous phrase "THE NEEDS OF THE NAVY" !! and your contract... the REASON that Detailers are the 2nd most hated folks in the Navy.
I ended up in the HSL community, West Coast... my 2nd choice.
2007-12-08 13:00:02 · answer #5 · answered by mariner31 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have to do good in A school. Like better than most people. but you only get to choose from a list.
2007-12-08 11:30:22 · answer #6 · answered by Victor 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Recruiters...they promise everything and deliver nothing except you to the hands of the military machine!
2007-12-08 11:19:41 · answer #7 · answered by RT 66 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋