The schoolhouse requested our orders today and it looks like we will be able to pick sometime within the next week! We had a quick brief today on the process. It's pretty much a crap-shoot, with a couple of exceptions. First, they take into consideration those who have dependants (husband, wife, and/or children). For their first permanent duty station, these sailors will not be allowed to receive overseas order billets. They can, however, still receive orders to a ship. Chances are, though, that they will be sent somewhere close to where their dependants are currently living.
Secondly, anyone with a waiver for some type of moral conviction (i.e. DUI/DWI, drug use, etc.) within the last 2 years will also not be allowed to pick overseas orders. They will either wind up on a ship or on shore in the states.
Lastly, if there are ship assignments in the list of orders, any females in the class are automatically assigned them. Males would be left with whatever remains. Unless, there a multiple ship orders and they are designated either male or female billets. Obviously, males can not fill female billets and vice versa.
Basically, if married, the best you can hope for is shore duty in the states or ship duty. Also, if you want to be stationed overseas, join the Navy with a clean nose and try not to get in trouble while you're here. To give you an idea, one sailor in our class was recently caught drunk while on duty. The sailor is automatically disqualified from any overseas orders and will almost surely not have a choice on where they wind up. Many people are dropped from the school for lesser offenses. Just more incentive to stay out of trouble...
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