View Single Post
Old 10-27-2010, 22:50   #17
Callsign
SF Candidate
 
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Maryland
Posts: 35
Quote:
Originally Posted by John_Chrichton View Post
On 10/21/2010, I succesfully reno'd into an 18X contract with ship date of 20110524. I have not heard anything from my recruiter or otherwise about the 18X program being discontinued.

When I initially enlisted in September (2010), I was told that there were no spots for 18X. I was also told that out of 98,000 contracts that are available for FY2011, 30,000 had already been written by September 2010. I did have luck however when this new year opened up, so I believe it was just a timing issue and the recruiter was trying to close the year.
Just to elaborate a bit on the above, I too have a similar ship date for basic 20110525. This morning (10-27-2010) when I was selecting the MOS, the recruiter had to call his supervisor to put the 18x into the software. It wipes out all the other other options and I was shown how many slots were available.

There was no mention of the 18x program being discontinued then again I'm not sure they would have that information.
Callsign is offline   Reply With Quote