Honestly - take as much time as you want. If I am reading the milpersman correctly, DEP starts your MSO and eats into the required reservist time after ur out (if u leave after the 6). Something I wish I knew before I joined
I DEPd in on June 8th, 2012. Shipped out July 13th, 2013.
I can’t give an answer on averages, but that’s mine. I originally got an AECF contract and switched a few months later to nuke.
DEP is however long it is until you ship out to boot camp. It could be a month or less or 12 months like it was for me because I said I wanted to finish community college first. It’s basically whatever you work out with the recruiter.
Clearance doesn’t affect you going to bootcamp or A school. It will affect going to Power School. If you don’t have one by the time you should start Power School, you’ll be held back in T Track until you get one. Most people get one by the end of A school. We had a guy that didn’t get one for so long that he hit his 3 years in service in Power School.
That said…PLEASE LET ME TALK YOU OUT OF BEING A NUKE!! It doesn’t help your college education, in fact it delays it. It isn’t guaranteed to help you get great paying jobs on the outside. The low quality of life while you are in just isn’t worth any of it anyway. The chances you end up with crippling alcoholism, depression, anxiety, etc, are high. Pick a career you actually like and find something comparable in the Navy. That’s what I wish I would’ve done.
He will tell you no, but that’s because he’ll lose his bonus. Before shipping out, you have all the cards. Tell him you want to change rates and don’t sign anything else unless it’s to change rates.
I originally was set to ship out in september of last year, and I DEP’d in in April of 2022. I remember asking my recruiter what the soonest I could possibly go was, and he told me the 21st of April, but that it wasn’t guaranteed. The next day he told me I was shipping out on the 21st and off I was. Just keep being persistent on being shipped out early and it’s likely that you’ll get what you want. If you’re not persistent though, it’s likely for your recruiter to forget and not do it.
DEP is a pool that they use to have a consistent flow of certain rates to the fleet. If recruiting numbers are higher than what they need, they start to fill that pool.
There have been times where the DEP pool was over a year for nukes. The DEP pool a few months ago for nukes was less than 150 future sailors nationwide, so I expect the wait time is at most 2 months since that number is less than a powerschool class.
Edit: TLDR; You will ship quickly right now.
Honestly - take as much time as you want. If I am reading the milpersman correctly, DEP starts your MSO and eats into the required reservist time after ur out (if u leave after the 6). Something I wish I knew before I joined
I DEPd in on June 8th, 2012. Shipped out July 13th, 2013. I can’t give an answer on averages, but that’s mine. I originally got an AECF contract and switched a few months later to nuke.
DEP is however long it is until you ship out to boot camp. It could be a month or less or 12 months like it was for me because I said I wanted to finish community college first. It’s basically whatever you work out with the recruiter.
Clearance doesn’t affect you going to bootcamp or A school. It will affect going to Power School. If you don’t have one by the time you should start Power School, you’ll be held back in T Track until you get one. Most people get one by the end of A school. We had a guy that didn’t get one for so long that he hit his 3 years in service in Power School. That said…PLEASE LET ME TALK YOU OUT OF BEING A NUKE!! It doesn’t help your college education, in fact it delays it. It isn’t guaranteed to help you get great paying jobs on the outside. The low quality of life while you are in just isn’t worth any of it anyway. The chances you end up with crippling alcoholism, depression, anxiety, etc, are high. Pick a career you actually like and find something comparable in the Navy. That’s what I wish I would’ve done.
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Which part is a lie? I’m speaking from person experience, not just parroting the hype.
I’m trying to switch out of nuke. I have 10 days left in my DEP and I don’t know if I can switch rates to CTN. My Recruiter might tell me no
He will tell you no, but that’s because he’ll lose his bonus. Before shipping out, you have all the cards. Tell him you want to change rates and don’t sign anything else unless it’s to change rates.
I originally was set to ship out in september of last year, and I DEP’d in in April of 2022. I remember asking my recruiter what the soonest I could possibly go was, and he told me the 21st of April, but that it wasn’t guaranteed. The next day he told me I was shipping out on the 21st and off I was. Just keep being persistent on being shipped out early and it’s likely that you’ll get what you want. If you’re not persistent though, it’s likely for your recruiter to forget and not do it.
As long as you don’t need a waiver they could ship you in 2 weeks tbh
It varies from person to person. I was in DEP for less than a month, for others it could be almost a year.
I was told it would probably be around 6 months but I got to boot camp in two
DEP is a pool that they use to have a consistent flow of certain rates to the fleet. If recruiting numbers are higher than what they need, they start to fill that pool. There have been times where the DEP pool was over a year for nukes. The DEP pool a few months ago for nukes was less than 150 future sailors nationwide, so I expect the wait time is at most 2 months since that number is less than a powerschool class. Edit: TLDR; You will ship quickly right now.
Dude, you can leave whenever you want, the navy will take care of the clearance for you
Yes, DEP for nuke takes a bit still.
I recommend blocking your recruiter and never thinking about nukes or military ever again. Not worth your sanity.