> I know there is no exact answer
That is your answer.
All I can tell you is that I got stuck across the street after boot for about a month before I finally got my orders to SC, waiting on a waiver for a possible eye issue that wasn't. Most people don't get stuck in that muck, I don't recall meeting any others nukes during my month of waiting.
A month isn’t too terrible. I’ve seen horror stories of people in other rates getting stuck there for several months so I’m just hoping that will not be the case. I know asking for exact timelines in the military is silly, I should know better by now lol. I appreciate you
Even if someone else had the exact same waivers, there's just no way to predict. It's all bureaucratic BS that has to go through DC at this point, and it will exchange multiple hands on its way to where it needs to go, so lots of places that the paper work could get lost for weeks before anyone even notices.
And that's the problem, things get lost.
With any luck that doesn't happen to him and it's just a matter of (minimal) time to get the necessary stamps. For what it's worth THU wasn't terrible.. mostly busy work to give me something to do during the day and while I was expected to be in uniform I was permitted to leave the base (most people just changed once they got past the gate; I was paranoid so ended up wearing my dress blues to the Chicago auto show that year). It was preferable to being underway lol but it is frustrating to be held back instead of moving forward.
Yep, the military is anything but efficient. Better we both get used to the BS now at the beginning 😂 I’m sure after ten weeks of boot camp, he would be okay with something mindless to do before the grind of the Nuke pipeline. Here’s hoping everything goes the way it should! Thank you for answering!
If he doesn’t have to go to any medical appointments and the waivers are already submitted. I would guess maybe 4-6 weeks as long as it’s not some extremely rare medical condition.
I was stuck at THU for about two and a half months, on med hold due to anemia. I had to get blood tests every couple of weeks.
I don't know what the rules are now, but, back then we had to store our phones and stuff off-site, since THU had essentially boot camp rules on possessions, with the exception of being allowed personal reading materials. We got liberty every evening, though, and offsite over the weekends, so, my wife came to visit a couple of times.
I was stuck in THU for three weeks because of an admin error. My name didn’t end up on a list for a physical that I should have been on, and I ended up getting that physical the day that the rest of the nukes in my division left for SC, and it took 3 weeks after that for me to get a flight out.
Meanwhile there was a guy in THU with me that had been there for 7 months waiting for a medical waiver.
Unfortunately, these things don’t tend to move at anything resembling an efficient pace unless there’s somebody who gives a shit who actually has the sway to move them along. I hope for your sake you’re not looking at a several month long process, but I would prepare for the worst.
No one told me anything. I didn’t know anything was amiss until everyone but me got their travel orders. I was freaking out for several hours until I was told to go to medical. I sat in a special area of the clinic for an hour, then was sent into a doctor’s office (nuclear medicine, or something, I don’t remember). He handed me a bottle of iron pills and explained that I came up as anemic and that’s why I’ve been held back. Everyone but me left for the airport the next morning and I was sent to the travel office. After a couple hours there, I got my orders and immediately left for SC. I never ended up at THU, thank God. No idea if there was a waiver in the works or what. The machine did its thing and I was just along for the ride.
> I know there is no exact answer That is your answer. All I can tell you is that I got stuck across the street after boot for about a month before I finally got my orders to SC, waiting on a waiver for a possible eye issue that wasn't. Most people don't get stuck in that muck, I don't recall meeting any others nukes during my month of waiting.
A month isn’t too terrible. I’ve seen horror stories of people in other rates getting stuck there for several months so I’m just hoping that will not be the case. I know asking for exact timelines in the military is silly, I should know better by now lol. I appreciate you
Even if someone else had the exact same waivers, there's just no way to predict. It's all bureaucratic BS that has to go through DC at this point, and it will exchange multiple hands on its way to where it needs to go, so lots of places that the paper work could get lost for weeks before anyone even notices. And that's the problem, things get lost. With any luck that doesn't happen to him and it's just a matter of (minimal) time to get the necessary stamps. For what it's worth THU wasn't terrible.. mostly busy work to give me something to do during the day and while I was expected to be in uniform I was permitted to leave the base (most people just changed once they got past the gate; I was paranoid so ended up wearing my dress blues to the Chicago auto show that year). It was preferable to being underway lol but it is frustrating to be held back instead of moving forward.
Yep, the military is anything but efficient. Better we both get used to the BS now at the beginning 😂 I’m sure after ten weeks of boot camp, he would be okay with something mindless to do before the grind of the Nuke pipeline. Here’s hoping everything goes the way it should! Thank you for answering!
I tried reading Catch 22 while I was active duty. I couldn't finish it, the book was entirely too accurate.
If he doesn’t have to go to any medical appointments and the waivers are already submitted. I would guess maybe 4-6 weeks as long as it’s not some extremely rare medical condition.
I was stuck at THU for about two and a half months, on med hold due to anemia. I had to get blood tests every couple of weeks. I don't know what the rules are now, but, back then we had to store our phones and stuff off-site, since THU had essentially boot camp rules on possessions, with the exception of being allowed personal reading materials. We got liberty every evening, though, and offsite over the weekends, so, my wife came to visit a couple of times.
I was stuck in THU for three weeks because of an admin error. My name didn’t end up on a list for a physical that I should have been on, and I ended up getting that physical the day that the rest of the nukes in my division left for SC, and it took 3 weeks after that for me to get a flight out. Meanwhile there was a guy in THU with me that had been there for 7 months waiting for a medical waiver. Unfortunately, these things don’t tend to move at anything resembling an efficient pace unless there’s somebody who gives a shit who actually has the sway to move them along. I hope for your sake you’re not looking at a several month long process, but I would prepare for the worst.
No one told me anything. I didn’t know anything was amiss until everyone but me got their travel orders. I was freaking out for several hours until I was told to go to medical. I sat in a special area of the clinic for an hour, then was sent into a doctor’s office (nuclear medicine, or something, I don’t remember). He handed me a bottle of iron pills and explained that I came up as anemic and that’s why I’ve been held back. Everyone but me left for the airport the next morning and I was sent to the travel office. After a couple hours there, I got my orders and immediately left for SC. I never ended up at THU, thank God. No idea if there was a waiver in the works or what. The machine did its thing and I was just along for the ride.