I apologize if this posting is long-winded, but I've been going through the threads and I have some questions that do need some clarification. Also, I hope my questions don't belong on other threads, since this is geared towards the EDO community only. I don't want to cause "high seas," and hopefully I don't. I'm just trying to gather information.

Quickly on my part, looking to transfer to USNR as an EDO. I've got my MS in EE, going for my PhD in the same.

So if there's any EDOs out there that can answer these, that would be great!

1.) All newly appointed EDOs have to go through EDQP, or the Engineering Duty Qualification Program to change from a 1465 designator to a 1445 designator, or fully qualified EDO. So, how long does that last? I'm hearing anywhere between 4-6 years, or basically when you hit O-3. What exactly is involved in completing the program?

2.) In addition to the last question, it seems to me, regardless of designator, you can't be pulled for IA duty until you're fully qualified. But there are other threads that say after 84 days of duty in the USNR, or about 2.5 years, then you can be IA'd. But a new EDO wouldn't be fully qualified in this case, so what happens?

3.)While we're on the IA topic, other EDO posters on this forum have stated that if they did ADSW over 90 days that it gets them "put into the bottom of the MOB list, per EDO community rules." Is that really true? If so, where do regulations state that? What communication is that in?

4.) Furthermore, (and UndexLT, Sir, if you can please chime in on this one since you talked about it), it has been noted that some IA duty is CONUS. Did you volunteer for that billet? I'm just curious that if someone wanted to volunteer for a specific billet, regardless of location, that they would get it. So, for instance, if I volunteered for a billet in OEF, could they still IA me to OIF due to the fact that I wanted to volunteer in the first place?

5.) For those EDOs that have been on deployment, was it all outside of your designator, i.e., and EDO doing Public Affairs work, etc.?

6.) Drills for new EDOs - once a month, or once a quarter? I believe ONR units drill once a quarter.

7.) And for myself, since someone told me about Nuke. Are there Nuke Reserve Officers? If not, maybe Nuke Reserve FTS?


That's it for now. Thanks for your time!

Victor

I am a new EDO. I was commissioned earlier this year and I transferred from AF Reserves (17 years). So, I can provide some assistance, but I am not the SME.

1. I was told 4 years, and you need to be eligible to graduate the EDQP by the time you are 0-3.

2. You are non-deployable while in EDQP. I have heard nothing on about the magic 84 days.

3. That is more of a political list, but from what I have heard they can pay close attention to it. For instance, if you are trying to deploy a lot and another officer hasn't... it will be much harder for you to go.

4. I never heard of people getting pulled from one theater to another just because they volunteered. Hopefully, the USNR doesn't do that too often, but I imagine thay can.

6. We have DWE once a month, but it can be flexible. However, since I am now in charge of training, it will be best for me to be there on DWE.

7. EDOs seem to have a lot of opportunities to go into a lot of specialties. I could go to jump school or diving school right now (at least, whenever I finally get gained and go to INDOC).

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Originally posted by victorvictor5:
I apologize if this posting is long-winded, but I've been going through the threads and I have some questions that do need some clarification. Also, I hope my questions don't belong on other threads, since this is geared towards the EDO community only. I don't want to cause "high seas," and hopefully I don't. I'm just trying to gather information.

Quickly on my part, looking to transfer to USNR as an EDO. I've got my MS in EE, going for my PhD in the same.

So if there's any EDOs out there that can answer these, that would be great!

1.) All newly appointed EDOs have to go through EDQP, or the Engineering Duty Qualification Program to change from a 1465 designator to a 1445 designator, or fully qualified EDO. So, how long does that last? I'm hearing anywhere between 4-6 years, or basically when you hit O-3. What exactly is involved in completing the program?

2.) In addition to the last question, it seems to me, regardless of designator, you can't be pulled for IA duty until you're fully qualified. But there are other threads that say after 84 days of duty in the USNR, or about 2.5 years, then you can be IA'd. But a new EDO wouldn't be fully qualified in this case, so what happens?

3.)While we're on the IA topic, other EDO posters on this forum have stated that if they did ADSW over 90 days that it gets them "put into the bottom of the MOB list, per EDO community rules." Is that really true? If so, where do regulations state that? What communication is that in?

4.) Furthermore, (and UndexLT, Sir, if you can please chime in on this one since you talked about it), it has been noted that some IA duty is CONUS. Did you volunteer for that billet? I'm just curious that if someone wanted to volunteer for a specific billet, regardless of location, that they would get it. So, for instance, if I volunteered for a billet in OEF, could they still IA me to OIF due to the fact that I wanted to volunteer in the first place?

5.) For those EDOs that have been on deployment, was it all outside of your designator, i.e., and EDO doing Public Affairs work, etc.?

6.) Drills for new EDOs - once a month, or once a quarter? I believe ONR units drill once a quarter.

7.) And for myself, since someone told me about Nuke. Are there Nuke Reserve Officers? If not, maybe Nuke Reserve FTS?


That's it for now. Thanks for your time!

Victor

murraymr,

Thanks for the response.

If anyone else can chime in, that would be great.

By the way, 2 more quick questions.

1.) I've heard of the designator for EDOs, but then there's something called NOBCs. So what exactly are they, and how do you get one/how do you know which one you get?

2.) NAVSEA Program 29 units - any local one in Delaware? If it's not compromising OPSEC, can someone let me know where the closest one is?

NOBC has to do with your billet and what you want to specialize in. I already filed a letter, but an EDO in EDQP will not need the billet until graduation.

1) Max they want it to take you is 6 yrs.
-yr1: DCO School
-yr2: AT SEA
-yr3: 1st Industrial Tour
-yr4: 2nd Industrial Tour
-yr5: EDO school
-yr5/yr6: EDO Board
It depends on your certifying officer on whether or not they want you to do a 2nd industrial tour. Also, if you want to get done faster, you can double up on your required ATs by using IDTT time.

2)The EDO Community controls the IA requests. The community has a running list of all IA eligible officers. We are numbered and categorized by rank. To be eligible, you need to be fully ED qualed and an 03. The 84 day requirement was a generic military reserve time frame to new inductees (non-prior service)into the reserves. This does not apply to us because our community is in control of IA mobilization.

3)There is a communication on NKO, on the reserve EDO site, that states that if 90 days of Active duty is performed, that that member will be rotated back to the bottom of the IA list for their rank.

4)Yes, there are IA duties in CONUS. The IA solicitations that have come from the EDO community have all been OCONUS to support OIF and OEF. These have been to support Army civil affairs battalions, Seabee dets, and Navy customs dets. On a side note we had two EDOs mob to Nicaragua for 8 months. You can put in for a certain IA Mob solicitation but if you don't want to get picked up for everything that comes along, do not put VOL on your MOB status.

5) For the most part, it has been all out of our designators. It has gotten better now, the solicitations have been for reconstruction engineering support but some have still been for civil affairs. We were advised that we can fill any Seabee officer slot, as they are in such high rotation. The good new for that is you can qual for their warfare pin while you are deployed.

6)You can drill once a month if you want, but you really don't get much done that way. There are a myriad of projects, schools, and support that you can do by flex drilling and lumping your days together (AT/IDTT orders).

7) They have an ED dolphin path. It is available to us, to specialize in subs, but I have not met one person who has the qual. One of the LTJGs is working on getting the command to make it more accessible. Even getting a SWO qual is getting extremely hard with all the re-alignment going on. We use to be able to fill non ED billets fairly easily but that has come to an end. Hence, very hard to get assigned to an NRF ship. Then to add insult to injury, they are doing away with NRF ships!

Oh...
NOBCs are just add on "job quals" that you can attain. You can go to a paint inspection class and get qualified....then you can earn a NOBC for that. If you become a Navy SCUBA diver, you can get a NOBC for that as well. Think of it as job codes you qualify for to go under your designator. One of my buddies works for NASA..the dude qual'd for a space NOBC, just for having that as his civilian job.

As for Program 29, I do not know...

I take it back, I usually don't think of myself in being under program29, I just consider it NAVSEA. That is what the majority of us EDOs are in. It is essentially supporting NAVSEA and the shipyards. I believe every state should have at least one unit. Worst case scenario, you've got the Navy Yard in DC. My closest NAVSEA unit is 3 hrs away. Hence, take advantage of the flex drilling so you don't have to drive far every month.