On October 7th, 2009 …
I raised my right hand …
I, Jason Pawlak, do solemnly swear that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of [...]

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I got the phone call I’ve been waiting so long for today! My Final Select letter has arrived and everything is squared away for me to swear in to the United States Navy!
There hasn’t been any posts since my Professionally Recommended post, and that has been on purpose. There hasn’t really been too [...]

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I met my recruiter in October of 2006 at a career fair at school.  I submitted my application for the first time in January of 2008 and was not selected.  I then submitted my application again in May of 2009, and on Monday, June 1st, I got the phone call that I was professionally recommended [...]

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All the papers are updated, signed, dated, and sent off to Tennessee.  Finally!
Since it had been over a year since my last application for BDCP/OCS, a lot of my papers had to be updated.  Mostly it was just updating current address for contacts, but it all takes time.  Another time filler was completing my new [...]

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So last time I wrote about starting up my BDCP application, nothing else happened.  I never got any calls about setting up interviews to get some better letters of recommendation, nor did I really have any updates to my application package.
On Monday, however, my phone rang, and it was my recruiter telling me that he [...]

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