TheLifeguard
Newbie
Hi all,
First of all my sincere apologies if this is a repeat of stuff already around the forum, I did look and I couldn't find anything.
I sat my AIB today as a General Warfare and passed with a score that is "borderline for selection". My board president recommended that I consider the Hydrographic and Meterology Officer as there was an excellent chance I could get in come November as a HM Officer. As I understand it the training stream is the same as General Warfare up until the IWO course when a HM officer goes on and does HM stuff and then serves their first couple of jobs on a survey ship doing hydro and with a NAS (or in support of one) doing met things.
Have I got this right? He also said that I could change to PWO and move (hopefully obviously) to command (which is actually what he did).
Unfortunately I can't direct this question to my AFCO as I'm in Ireland and don't have a permanent AFCO at the moment. We share one and he won't be back over until mid-August which will be too late for the November Selection Board.
Id really appreciate any help or advice anyone can give me on anything related to this...
First of all my sincere apologies if this is a repeat of stuff already around the forum, I did look and I couldn't find anything.
I sat my AIB today as a General Warfare and passed with a score that is "borderline for selection". My board president recommended that I consider the Hydrographic and Meterology Officer as there was an excellent chance I could get in come November as a HM Officer. As I understand it the training stream is the same as General Warfare up until the IWO course when a HM officer goes on and does HM stuff and then serves their first couple of jobs on a survey ship doing hydro and with a NAS (or in support of one) doing met things.
Have I got this right? He also said that I could change to PWO and move (hopefully obviously) to command (which is actually what he did).
Unfortunately I can't direct this question to my AFCO as I'm in Ireland and don't have a permanent AFCO at the moment. We share one and he won't be back over until mid-August which will be too late for the November Selection Board.
Id really appreciate any help or advice anyone can give me on anything related to this...
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