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PapaBear765:
--- Quote from: texan168 on Feb 08, 2008, 09:09 ---I understand that this post has a lot of blowing my son's horn and I appologise but I'm rationalizing that since no one knows who I am or my son is it really isnt. My son finished number one in A-school and is currently number one or near it at power school. My question is does where they place in school have any effect on their military and civilian careers other than being able to choose their first post?
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I've often noticed that the navy's assignment of nuke graduates evens out the upper and lower percentiles. That is, they keep track of how many of the poor performers they send to a ship and balance that with an equal number of great performers. The middle of the road students (2.8 to 3.2 GPA) can go where ever. So the cynical piece of advice I would give your son is to deliberately get a middle of the road GPA in order for his assignment after Prototype to not be influenced.
Cycoticpenguin:
--- Quote from: PapaBear765 on Feb 17, 2008, 08:20 ---I've often noticed that the navy's assignment of nuke graduates evens out the upper and lower percentiles. That is, they keep track of how many of the poor performers they send to a ship and balance that with an equal number of great performers. The middle of the road students (2.8 to 3.2 GPA) can go where ever. So the cynical piece of advice I would give your son is to deliberately get a middle of the road GPA in order for his assignment after Prototype to not be influenced.
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dude... your avatar.... wow
anyway.... From the past few graduations, I've noticed mass movements to a single ship. last 2 were the enterprise, the one that just finished was the carl vinson. on paper, im fairly middle of the road, but i was a single billet out to the Ike. Not sure why, I even ASKED for the big E lol.
Marlin:
I don't know how it works now but most detailers that made the assignments when I was in were non-nukes. They frequently resented the early advancements, bonuses and pay that nukes got and it showed up in our orders if you did not get your command involved.
PapaBear765:
--- Quote from: HoneyComb on Feb 17, 2008, 10:47 ---On the other hand the order's you receive to go to your first command are not as easy to pin down. I still think the needs of the Navy will always outweigh any thought of gpa to a ship.
Remember to a Detailer you are a Qualified Nuke after prototype. He does not care about gpa. He's got positions to fill.
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Everyone is right: the needs of the navy will prevail. Having said that, unless there's a great need for someone to fill a particular billet, then they're going to try to even out the distribution of "hot runners" and "anchors." Also detailers will try to meet the desires of the individual. I always got whatever I asked for. But at the same time, when I got to the PCU Texas (now the USS Texas) right out of prototype my orders were modified to the USS Montpelier due to their RC Division losing too many people and them going on deployment in less than two months. So the needs prevailed.
Detailers now are nukes, too.
Marlin:
--- Quote from: Cycoticpenguin on Feb 17, 2008, 10:33 ---dude... your avatar.... wow
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I had not noticed until you mentioned it. I pushed Papabear one notch closer to positive Karma.
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