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Old 02-06-2016, 11:21 PM   #10
YN2(AW)Williams
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Definitely do not sign for a job you don't want to do. While the Navy is better than the other branches about changing jobs, you are still going to be stuck doing whatever you signed for over a period of at least 2 years.

And your coach is mostly right. Navy recruiters have much less control over the process than most believe. Really they sell you on joining the Navy, do your entry paperwork, then send you to MEPS. The detailer at MEPS is the guy who is going to be giving you that job, not your recruiter. The recruiter can't even tell you what jobs will be open in what time frames without getting that info from the detailer. And any recruiter that tells you otherwise is lying through their teeth.

The general advice though is to try and pick a couple of jobs that you might want to do. There is no telling what will be available or what you might get disqualified for. It could be that the next ship date for MAs is not until December of this year. Highly unlikely, but that is the sort of thing that can happen. Or you could find out that the civilian techs working the eye exam equipment are idiots that don't know how to administer the tests right and label you color blind despite every optometrist you have ever been to diagnosing you as color normal. That one right there will DQ you for pretty much everything in the armed services and once the Medical Officer signs it there really is not much you can do to change that. Which is precisely what happened with me.

The point is not to scare you or try to steer you away from MA. Far from it, please pursue whatever you desire. Just, you know, have backup plans. And backups for your backups.
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