Navy Nurse Corps...has anybody heard anything?

[Lace_09]

Hey ya'all! I was just wondering if any of you out there have went to the boards for Navy Nurse Corps recently have heard anything?? Im pretty sure my packet went the end of March or beginning of April. I haven't heard anything and dont really feel like bugging my recruiter....again.... so I thought I would ask here first! Thanks in advance :)!!!

[sassysoldier]

congratulations !!!!!:yeah::yeah:

[MR2009]

I am a nursing student right now and I also want to be in the Navy nurse corps. Is it true that you have to have a 3.0 gpa to be considered?

[carolinapooh, BSN, RN]

My recruiter told me that the quota for the fiscal year has been met. But she also mentioned that the Navy prioritize the reserves and NCP. So, if it was true that the Navy met its fiscal year and NCP is the priority, you should expect going to ODS on October. What I really hate is why those recruiters don't tell us exactly the truth. It is obvious that the recruiters were telling us different things. So, Im done reading allnurses.com for this topics because it just keeps giving you wrong information. I hate to think like this but it seems to me that its either they don't tell us exactly the truth or they just don't know what they are doing. So, for my recruiter who told me that I should expect getting to ODS on October, thats fine, I will wait until October. But if I dont get to ODS on October, then thats it for me. At least I tried my best to be part of the Navy. I dont want my high GPA and my experience and young opportunities (Im only 26, single and willing to relocate anywhere) will be working with people who either dont know what they are talking or doing and don't tell me exactly the truth, I rather work in a civilian environment.

It's not always that recruiters lie. It's also that they aren't told everything either - and they get mixed messages and are told seven, eight different things. You can't go by what Sally Sue's recruiter told you, because her recruiter may belong to a different recruiting group in a different part of the country and was therefore told something different by their commander.

I'm prior enlisted and have probably heard every recruiter story there is, and my officer recruiter wasn't the sharpest person around. A lot of what I found out I dug up for myself. But in the recruiter's defense, they work their butts off and are told multiple things by multiple people. I truly do believe most of them want us to succeed and want to do well at their jobs (and want us in the military!), but the officer recruiters especially (across the branches, BTW) have all experienced huge manning cuts and have been -- and continue to be forced - to do more with less. They cover huge geographic areas and are responsible for many, many applications. I empathize with your frustrations - believe me, I've been there, and I'm quite often the first one to say the recruiter's a nut case - but hang in there.

[pixie0413]

I'm in the same boat but with the Army. I was selected as an alternate in November and I'm unsure how things progress from this point.