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Navy ODS.

Happy New Year! I am in the process of submitting my ODS packet for the Navy. I have my medical clearance next week and the credentialing process has already begun. My recruiter says I should have my interviews either next week or the following week. A little background: I have been a nurse for 5 years and have an MSN. My background includes med-surge, mother-baby, pre-post op & Interventional Radiology (current position). I am prior service Army (completed one deployment to Iraq and served for a little over 3 years active duty). I finished out my IRR time and was done. Now that I'm putting my packet together for the Navy, I was wondering what my potential rank would be coming in as a direct commission. Any and all advice is welcomed. Thank you for your time!

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    I don't know for sure but based on what others have shared here and on reddit, I would expect O3e, O2e minimum. I'm prior enlisted as well and my package was submitted in November. I have 5 years experience as well and I'm also prior enlisted Navy. I won't be done with my masters until May so it will not be included in my package at this time. I'm being told I'll be O2e but no idea how much time in service they will give me since I did a few years reserves too. I'll update you with what they tell me. Good luck!

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    Army it would be O2E. Only people I ever saw come in at O3 were new MD or DNPs.  MDs w/ experience sometimes direct in at O4 or O5.  In like 2007 I met a nurse who came it at O3 with 10 years experience and her DNP.   The standard way was O1 BSN, O2 MSN, O3 DNP.   That is all Army though.  I never paid attention to what the Navy does.  

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    Unfortunately you need the 4 years plus 1 day (or the equivalent reserve points...1441) for the E.  You generally get 2 years of constructive credit for the MSN and 2.5 years of constructive credit for the 5 years of full time RN experience.  You'd be an O-3 without the E.

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