<p>HUH? 
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<p>Well, it’s been a while, so I’ll check to verify if I’m wrong. Let me crank up a contact or two I know and get back to you with the answer.</p>
<p>ETA: </p>
<p>Well, I’ll be damned! Looks like Fiterace was right! :eek:</p>
<p>I just got off the phone with SWOS in Newport, RI, and they confirmed for me that nowadays, JO’s report to their ships and, upon achieving their OOD qualification, report to SWOS. Both are required for qualification as a SWO.</p>
<p>To be frank, it still makes no sense to me, but I am quite certain that if they have made this radical a change, then the SWOS curriculum must also be radically different. Such is life; the only constant is change and taxes.</p>
<p>Since this is the case, then the possibility of a ship’s deployment schedule being a factor in Service Selection increases, but a) deployment schedules aren’t really published, and b) they change all the time anyway, so I still believe they would be a poor choice of a factor in choosing.</p>
<p>Since this has changed, I am going to leave open the possibility that the other schools (EOOW, DCA, etc.) have also changed. Let me get on the horn with some other contacts and get the latest scoop.</p>
<p>Will advise, and sorry for the confusion. Thanks, Fiterace, for the correction.</p>