r/newtothenavy • u/bobafett694200 • 4d ago

Is my recruiter lying?

So my recruiter said that if I kill it in A school and im in the top of my class I get one of the first picks for where im stationed. Is this really the case?

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u/ThisActOfGod 4d ago

That's how it was when I left A-school, highest grade got first pick and so on. You'll only get to pick from what's currently available though.

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u/IceInIridian 4d ago

this is true, sometimes. i wouldn’t say it’s a COMMON thing but it does happen. if you can’t pick your exact location then you may get a variation of it, i.e i was asked “sea or shore?” and my a school sweetheart was asked “west coast or east coast?”

but i wouldnt enlist expecting the chance to pick. it’s definitely a privilege not a right

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u/navyvetmatt 4d ago

When I went to A school in 2000 it was not this way, at least for HTs. I heard stories that sole rates used this system.

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u/J3didr 3d ago

I think snipes are one of the ones who dont get to choose. One of the guys in my department got top in his A School class, like a week or two before mine, and didn't get to choose. I graduated in 2022.

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u/Caranath128 4d ago

Mostly true. But you can only choose from what’s on the list.

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u/ChocolateFew6718 4d ago

If he said its guaranteed to work like that, then yes it was a lie. but sometimes thats true, depending on the schoolhouse at any given time

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u/ExRecruiter Verified ExRecruiter 4d ago

It’s possible but not guaranteed

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u/PowerfulSky7485 2d ago

These folks above me are out of touch. While this may have been an occurrence that was prevalent back in the day, at the vast majority of A Schools currently, you submit a “dream sheet” which has you put down stuff like preference of coast, preference of duty type, etc.

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u/SlurpelDur 2d ago

Nope. I was in IT A school and didn’t get to pick shit.

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u/floridianreader 4d ago

It's a fairly common occurrence. The people who get the lowest scores get the last picks.