USNA Service Assignment 2022

Must say that I don’t recall the same level of drama with what was “service selection” in our day. There was still uncertainty. You had a decent idea of what you’d get since it was based solely on OOM. Nukes were pre-selected and there were very few SEAL billets. You had to have natural 20/20 vision to be a pilot (no PRK in those days). Lots of competition for NFO. But not everyone got first choice. The main difference is that, when your turn came to select, you knew what was left — and it was your choice. Overall, it was more excitement than anything. Or maybe that’s how I choose to remember it. 😀
 
Heard from DD that the word going around is ‘draft’ for Marines and Subs. Not sure of any validity on this street rumor and that too coming from a 4/c.

DD texted around 3p that she will call in few min.. so waited patiently for over 7 hours to get the call. Today was better though as the call was on the same date unlike other days 😉.
 
Capt MJ said:
Brigade rumor mill is set on “max churn.”
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My MIDN says he believes nothing until it is written in stone. A child of the ‘sword in the stone’ era apparently. Not bad thought process actually.
 
Well, they have seen the numbers released already.

They have been recruited already.

Some professors are sharing info.

Sub draft (a real one) is said to already have occurred (but the Mids don’t yet know).

So some are on edge…probably not different from other years. But a true sub draft IS different than other (t least recent) years.

Im nervous. My Mid is not. Others are. Praying for them all. Finding out will get rid of all this buildup. TOMORROW!!

🙏🙏🙏

Now to clean it a couple closets and eat some bacon 🥓 😬
 
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Way back when, service selection was a somewhat low-key affair. Naturally, there was anticipation and excitement for the future. New ships were being funded in anticipation of a 600 ship Navy! The F-14 was the hot new bird everyone talked about. Brand new SH-60’s Seahawk helicopters were coming down the pike. The nuke sub people already knew their status which left service selection choices to Marine Corps, SWO, Aviation, and a few restricted line billets like Supply Corps and Intelligence. There was and one Med School billet. Mids were called down to, I don’t remember which Hall, by the Midshipmen run radio station in Bancroft Hall, WRNV. Everyone was glued to the radio. The process, coordinated by the Commandant's staff, started after evening meal and celebration ran late into the evening. DJs announced: #1 through #100 (or other similar groupings) – Come on down! #200 through #300 You’re up! And so, it went until the last person selected. Available ships with their ports, aviation class start dates were written on butcher block paper on an easel and were crossed off as they were chosen. There was running DJ commentary, some funny, some depressing. After selecting there was pizza, beer and music in Dahlgren Hall to celebrate.

Two of my best friends and I selected somewhat late into the evening 😃😃. Two of us chose aviation and one SWO. We went back to our rooms, changed into civies and went to celebrate only to find very little beer and slim pickings on the pizza. We thought that we’d fall behind our peers by getting a late starting flight school class. After graduation, I was a stash in Officer Programs and got to visit many college campuses while recruiting. It was quite the contrast from USNA. Joe Gish wound up at NAS Whidbey before reporting to flight school. It was great down time after graduation. My company mate that went SWO fell in love with the amphib community and later went on to command an LSD.

I hope that the Mids start enjoying their many “lasts” after service assignment. Last home field march-on; Last Army-Navy game; Last whatever. Now the time will really start to fly.
 
WT Door said:
Way back when, service selection was a somewhat low-key affair. Naturally, there was anticipation and excitement for the future. New ships were being funded in anticipation of a 600 ship Navy! The F-14 was the hot new bird everyone talked about. Brand new SH-60’s Seahawk helicopters were coming down the pike. The nuke sub people already knew their status which left service selection choices to Marine Corps, SWO, Aviation, and a few restricted line billets like Supply Corps and Intelligence. There was and one Med School billet. Mids were called down to, I don’t remember which Hall, by the Midshipmen run radio station in Bancroft Hall, WRNV. Everyone was glued to the radio. The process, coordinated by the Commandant's staff, started after evening meal and celebration ran late into the evening. DJs announced: #1 through #100 (or other similar groupings) – Come on down! #200 through #300 You’re up! And so, it went until the last person selected. Available ships with their ports, aviation class start dates were written on butcher block paper on an easel and were crossed off as they were chosen. There was running DJ commentary, some funny, some depressing. After selecting there was pizza, beer and music in Dahlgren Hall to celebrate.

Two of my best friends and I selected somewhat late into the evening 😃😃. Two of us chose aviation and one SWO. We went back to our rooms, changed into civies and went to celebrate only to find very little beer and slim pickings on the pizza. We thought that we’d fall behind our peers by getting a late starting flight school class. After graduation, I was a stash in Officer Programs and got to visit many college campuses while recruiting. It was quite the contrast from USNA. Joe Gish wound up at NAS Whidbey before reporting to flight school. It was great down time after graduation. My company mate that went SWO fell in love with the amphib community and later went on to command an LSD.

I hope that the Mids start enjoying their many “lasts” after service assignment. Last home field march-on; Last Army-Navy game; Last whatever. Now the time will really start to fly.
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This sounds like a really cool movie 😎
 
txfwindian said:
Heard from DD that the word going around is ‘draft’ for Marines and Subs. Not sure of any validity on this street rumor and that too coming from a 4/c.
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Has there been a Marine draft in recent years? I thought that community usually had to turn down folks due to demand. I get that this is 5th hand rumoring. But, while I had at least heard of sub drafting, I hadn't for Marines.
 
justme said:
Has there been a Marine draft in recent years? I thought that community usually had to turn down folks due to demand. I get that this is 5th hand rumoring. But, while I had at least heard of sub drafting, I hadn't for Marines.
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I have no info on this at all. Will wait another day to see what is the real info.
 
Nothing gets a rumor mill going like college kids sitting on pins and needles. As @Capt MJ and others here say so often: They’ll bloom where they’re planted.
 
justme said:
Has there been a Marine draft in recent years? I thought that community usually had to turn down folks due to demand. I get that this is 5th hand rumoring. But, while I had at least heard of sub drafting, I hadn't for Marines.
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I think that USMC selection requires having gone to Leatherneck so there would at least be SOME level of having been involved with USMC to start with. The USMC "max" used to be 1/6 and there were many years that they did not fill it. The 1/4 came about in the post 9/11 and I know that they've filled many times since then but I do not know if they will draft to get the full 1/4.
 
Heatherg21 said:
My MIDN says he believes nothing until it is written in stone. A child of the ‘sword in the stone’ era apparently. Not bad thought process actually.
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I had a boss who used to say about Navy policy, “unless it was written on a stone tablet and brought in by a bearded man who came down from a mountaintop, it can be changed.”
 
Capt MJ said:
I had a boss who used to say about Navy policy, “unless it was written on a stone tablet and brought in by a bearded man who came down from a mountaintop, it can be changed.”
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Of course, I don't consider anything a done deal until it has occurred. I don't even trust that bearded man bearing stone tablets. DW thinks I worry too much, but I view it as thinking ahead, preparing for changes before they occur.
 
justdoit19 said:
IDC what it is…I just want to KNOW at this point. So far, I feel like this is the WORST wait yet. For some reason, even beyond a receipt of appointment or TWE.
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Are you afraid of what he will get or what he will not get?
 
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