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Oh no! I’m in the Phantom flight and one of our flights is in quarantine for COVID. We had a member and their roommate go to quarantine the first week.

@Nic2021 Thank you!! It’s been a wild week! Yes, I’ll make sure to update everyone with any helpful info!

Getting ready to head to the airport for OTS!!

*UPDATE* I got my orders!! Fly out Sunday. There’s no DEROS, does others orders show a DEROS? Unsure yet of how many years I’m doing- they are still working on all my paperwork for my commissioning tomorrow. My recruiter said no sign on bonus for ER right now.

Is there a bonus for ER? My recruiters hasn’t mentioned anything to me.

That’s awesome! I’m not a good example. I’ve been calling AFPC, MPF, total nurse force, anyone to try and get info about my orders and I fly out in 5 days, oath in 3 days...Usually orders will come via e-mail or recruiter will give you the info.

That’s awesome!! I was curious about that as well.

8 weeks! I saw a couple nurses last class had 5 weeks but stated they are phasing it out.

@Fly-T-Nurse Ya my recruiters were stumped, they said everything has been done on their end for awhile now, they didn’t know why I didn’t have orders yet, which is why they didn’t tell me my assignment. The I got that e-mail..I do need my orders to do my oath and then book my flights and hotel so I’ll need them by Thursday-3 days out at the latest. They did say HQ probably is unaware I leave in a week versus think I have until my OTS date to get things sorted. That’s great! I got my first wings e-mail about 35 days before my class date and some people in my class just got theirs or still haven’t received it yet. So I think you’ll see yours sometime in January.

Oh man! There’s something going on with those scrolls. I hope it goes through and you can get orders soon and not wait til the last second like me! ????

Update: I woke up to an e-mail from a Col last night and have been in zoom meetings, emailing, and texting all day. They had an issue with a piece of my paperwork that is hopefully fixed now. So obviously no orders yet. Hoping by Tuesday. I fly out next Sunday!

My husband’s command didn’t believe it either! They have a training they need to schedule/ know what’s going on with him for deployment schedule etc. RAF Lakenheath, England! My husband is at RAF Mildenhall so we’d be staying where we are at. Which will make things a lot less stressful overall! I was really surprised, I thought for sure they’d be pulling me to the states with COVID. I got some immunizations yesterday and even the nurse thought they didn’t have much use for me here and I’d be getting elsewhere. But now we have to wait for official orders and see what that does to our time out here, we’ll probably have to add onto our 4 year tour.

After my husband’s command reaching out, I got an tentative assignment! No orders yet. 10 days til I leave! They are hoping to get orders by Monday (6 days out ?) so I can book my travel and hotel for OTS.

@rToney17 It’s possible!! I’m currently overseas and the last time I worked in an ER was 2016! (I was fortunate to have a lot of great experience prior to moving overseas). I’d recommend joining Red Cross right away and start asking about volunteering as a nurse at the hospital there. Hospital spots can take some time to get but stick with it and be as active in the community as possible and reapply! I’ve been working at WIC on base at my last base and now this one. I was also offered a volunteer ER nurse position at the first Navy base I was at but it took some time and networking.

3 weeks isn’t bad at all! I’m from Minot, North Dakota LOL so I forget not everyone is used to driving through that. I agree I’d just ship your car!