navy incentives

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Permalink Reply by Pete Ziolkowski on December 18, 2012 at 8:52am

Hi Jim, This was not my son's situation but your question caught my eye.  If you google Loan repayment program-Navy it comes back with a file from Navy recruiting command which basically says that this stuff needs to be done now through the recruiter or classifier.  I didn't see a date on the file so the info may be old but it could be that the recruiter just doesn't know and your son should go to the chief who is running the recruiting station and ask.  It seems that there are specific forms for him and the person he owes money to to fill out and turn in.  It seems to me that a lot of what happens at bootcamp is a blurr so I would really be surprised that they would be given the time to fill out special forms.  I also was curious about the Admiral acceleration award.  The information I was was that this was an award for recruiters of the staff at the training centers and not something for recruits.

Permalink Reply by Robert Dean Bostic on December 18, 2012 at 10:56am

Have your son check with the Chief at the recruiting station about loan repayment.  Why there may be a program for enlisted personnel to get repayment of student loans, i don't know of any, most are for direct procured Officers, which raises the main question.  With a BS, why is he enlisting rather that go for a direct commission via OCS?  Remember the golden rule, he who has the gold, makes the rules.  Have him check with the Officer Procurement Officer to see if there is a better program for him.  If he he wants to be a Nuc. there should be a better program for him.

Permalink Reply by Pete Ziolkowski on December 18, 2012 at 11:43am

One note on that is that if he wants to be an officer (except for supply) on a submarine he will need to go to nuc school.  I believe submarine officers all have technical degrees (or they wnat them to) and they go through nuc school.  When my son went through basic I was truly surprised to findout that there were a lot of people in his division that had four year degrees.  One of his buddies with a four year (non technical) degree tried to go to OCS (top person in his BESS class) but was turned down.  I think a story just broke that the navy (which just went through a down sizing through its enlisted retention boards last year) may be short enlisted but have an adequate supply of officers.  This article was in Navy Times.

Permalink Reply by robert maurice - pierre trudeau on June 6, 2013 at 1:44am

if your son has a college degree why is he not going to officer training school first off and second boot camp is not the place to discuss lrp program you do want everything in writing up front my son is 4th generation navy after me. even have a few cousins that were officers and one navy commander /doctor . better follow up i would