Just checking to see if anyone knows if OS1 Sea Billets are being short toured. I know of atleast one OS1 billet on a 270 that appears on 08's shopping list, when the incumbent is not due to rotate until 09'. Is this a mistake or is the rating trying to free up sea billets for others to get sea time? MC, anything on this?
I haven't heard anything about short touring sea billets. As for you billet in questions, you can write the person and ask them. There are tons of ways I can think of someone coming off of a boat early when they aren't do to transfer till 09. One possiblitliy is that he/she, put in their career intentions worksheet and they are not going to re-enlist. So their out date is 08 even tho they aren't due to transfer till 09. Maybe the person in question is making Chief and is transfering.
Well, it looks like all of the possible answers were given. 1) fleet ups 2) leaving service 3) Over billets 4) Advancement 5) other needs of the service
Well MC I would have to say those are probably most of the Positive possible answers... I can list probably 10 more that would be a negative reason someone is leaving a cutter.
Your #6 might not exactly fit in w/ CG Policies for transferring members - so here's another good one: Needs of the member
There are a lot of programs out there that could open up a billet on the shopping list such as: Collocation needs, Administrative Assignments, Change in Rates, Humanitarian Assignments, Pregnancy, a Special Needs Program case, Temporary Separation and the Care for Newborn Children program. For more info on all of these programs (some of which I just learned about today - Check out the "Hot Topics" section of the EPM-2 page.)
Would it be unreasonable to shorten sea-time billets for the OS rate? The HS rate has a program, if I'm not mistaken, that sends their students to sea-going units for 18 months, then they transfer. Any thoughts?
That would be a sweet deal. Shoot, if i can just find an empty rack for a while, the command center I'm at won't miss me. The watch sched is fat enough to where i could disappear for a year.
I wouldn't say it's unreasonable if the rate needed it. I don't think the rate is at the point where we are short on people advancing. They didn't clear the OSC list last year and they probably wont clear it this year. I think if sea billets were short tour there would be an amazing amount of people testing for Chief that in my opionion got a short cut to be able to take the test. If you need a boat badly to advance and can't get a boat, then do the next best thing, take a billet that might not be your dream billet but will raise your priortiy level, like an overseas billet or put in for Iraq, then when your due to xfer in the future you'll have a better chance at getting a boat. You could always try to mutual with someone on a boat, I am sure there's at least one OS1 out there that's sick of being underway.
The problem with a mutual is the cutters command, releasing a qualified OS1 for an unqualed OS1. Even though, "I" know i will pick up the job quick, the command doesnt know that. It seems that every possible mutual candidate i have talked too, just suddenly stopped responding, as if the command said no. If that was the case, then the unqualed statement above, sounds like the most reasonable reason. Believe me, if i could get a command to bite and another OS1 to swap, I would jump on it.
Originally posted by akozak: Would it be unreasonable to shorten sea-time billets for the OS rate? The HS rate has a program, if I'm not mistaken, that sends their students to sea-going units for 18 months, then they transfer. Any thoughts?
No way. Most could barely find the galley after 18 months!
