E-3?

[LSsquillace]

I am currently depped in and going to rtc in July as an E-3 will the instructors know that and put me in a leadership position or single me out??

[AnnaGB]

I am currently depped in and going to rtc in July as an E-3 will the instructors know that and put me in a leadership position or single me out??

They're not going to care if you're E-3. They treat all recruits the same regardless of pay grade. I'm going in as E-3 too.

[LT Guppy]

The best description I've heard is, you will be doing the same push ups as everyone else, you jest get paid more per push up.

[mrsmiller0219]

How can you go in as anything except an E-1?

[LT Guppy]

College credits, passing a test, or getting a certain number of people to join.

[Haasino]

You probably won't hear anything about being an E-3 from your RDCs... mine didn't even realize I was an E-3 until they tried to promote me... turned out 80% of the recruits they chose to promote were E-3s, so they only promoted like 3 people.

If you want a leadership position, show them that you can shut up and pay attention to instructions... you're first few days are going to be nothing but stenciling your name and division number on everything you're issued... and you won't believe how many people screw that up. I caught Chief's eye because I didn't screw it up and already knew recruit handwriting, so she gave me a few small jobs while others had to stand in the "I'm stupid" line to have their stenciling corrected. When I was able to handle those jobs, she gave me PWSL.

[LSsquillace]

what is PWSL?

[warehimer33]

what is PWSL?

Port Watch Section Leader?

[LSsquillace]

ahh makes sense. im going in as E-3 and i know alot of the basic stuff some other recruits wont know, ive been doing ALOT of research!

[warehimer33]

ahh makes sense. im going in as E-3 and i know alot of the basic stuff some other recruits wont know, ive been doing ALOT of research!

I think I'm going to be able to tell who in my division was on this site without even asking.

[LSsquillace]

haha. yeah i was hoping i could meet somebody from this site at basic, but who knows.

[warehimer33]

The people I met at MEPS had no idea this site was here.

[LSsquillace]

man, its like people just go in with no research done at all, like seriously? haha i found this site like a month or two after i enlisted. now im next on the 2013 list of shippers. scary!

[OwenWookie]

College credits, passing a test, or getting a certain number of people to join.

3+ years of Highschool JROTC will also score you a E-3 :)

[LSsquillace]

thats how i scored E-3 i had 3 years of air force JROTC under my belt

[sweetmtn]

The people I met at MEPS had no idea this site was here.

It would help others if you all told all the other DEPers in your DEP pool about this site!

[LSsquillace]

its to late for me to do that. we were gonna have a DEP meeting today but it got canceled.