I was a nuke and a Rinc for a year at a large recruiting station. My advice is that you do what you need to with the nuke coordinator. Your Rinc is most likely not a nuke and he probably doesn't know everything that goes with your processing. Once you are in DEP, the navy runs a fingerprint check to see if you have any charges. If you have been fingerprinted for a charge and the arresting agency sends data to the FBI, which most do, then your charge is going to come up. I forgot the name of the file, because it has been a 5 years since I was Rinc, but they send out a discrepancy list to all the stations every so often of charges that were not reported when you entered DEP. It then becomes your recruiter's responsibility to find the documents regarding your charge and the final adjudication. If he can't do that, you fall into an open civil category which makes you unable to ship to RTC. This is what your Rinc is worried about. DEP attrition is nasty and is the bane of all recruiter's existence. So, my advice: Talk to your nuke coordinator and do what he says. If he is new to recruiting, he may not know the following information. If you were fingerprinted for your DUI, you probably need to get a waiver. The only way you don't is if the agency is a tiny, and I mean tiny, country bumpkin type of office or if your case was dismissed (i.e. in the interest of justice, insufficient evidence, etc). Hope that helps.
