What are your chances to be selected for OCS as a Navy SEAL Officer? (Previously enlisted with USMC)?

Question

My husband is an enlisted Marine and just finished his bachelor's degree. His EAS with the Marine Corps is next summer and he wants to transfer services to commission with the Navy as a SEAL officer but knows it is competitive. How many are selected to go to OCS a year? What are his chances of being chosen for OCS with the Navy as a SEAL? What will make him stand out?

Answer 1

Two separate things



1. He has to apply for Navy OCS



Generally you will need a college degree in a technical major with a GPA of 3.5 +



2. You also have to submit your package for Bud/s, while applying for OCS



Officers attending Bud/s are hand selected by a Seal Board, after reviewing their records



Only around 6 to 12 officers from OCS are sent to Bud/s each year



They are looking for the best of the best -- high GPA, extreme athletic accomplishment, demonstrated leadership ability



Note: included in the 6 to 12 OCS graduates, are prior enlisted Seals, applying for a commission



So standards are very high -- IE: if he is not recon or marsoc, he chances are gonna be very low



3. What makes a OCS candidate stand out ? being a college athlete on a division l sports team, especially on the swim team



IE: there are several ex olympic swimmers in the Seals



4. A killer Seal PST score, forget the minimum PST scores, that will no longer get you even looked at



The average PST score for enlisted seal challenge contract candidates is :



500 meter swim - 8:12

Push ups - 89

Sit ups - 86

Pull ups - 17

1.5 mile run - 9:03



IE: those are the average scores of the last group to get a seal challenge contract



An officer candidate would have to score even better on the PST



5.

Answer 2

Navy Seal Ocs

Answer 3

You don't go to OCS to become a SEAL. You go to OCS to be commissioned. While at OCS, you apply for a specific community, i.e.: aviation, SEAL, etc.



He won't be "transferring services", as he will have left the Marine Corps and then will be trying to enter the Navy. To transfer between services, that means you still have your obligation to one Service and want to go to another one.



Your husband really needs to go speak with a Navy officer recruiter, because right now, he is all hosed up in what he is thinking.



EDIT: what you state in your Additional Details makes far more sense that what you state in your initial question. The bottom line is your last sentence, which is clearly what you want to know. Everything else is either immaterial or not clearly explained. For example: you talk about your husband's EAS in the first part - which has nothing to do with a service transfer, but then go on to mention in your second part what a Recruiter said about conditional release packets - which has everything to do with a service transfer.



Since the last sentence in your second part is the real question here: of course it is possible, but as very few real SEALs are going to hang out here in YA, then I suspect that you are not going to get an answer about process experience.

Answer 4

The answer is yes. It is called Limited Duty Officer or "Mustang" I have no idea why they call it that but you will here,"So you went Mustang?". Anyway, the SO community is no different than any other portion of the Navy on whether you can get picked up to go from Chief's (E-7) Board eligable to LDO Officer. You do have to be eligable for E-7 first though and apply. You would be exiting BUD/s at proably E-5 and picking up E-6 about two years later if you were made it first time up. Depends on what the manning for SO is at the time. Then you have to wait longer before you are eligible to send in a Chief's package. Bottom line, it is possible and no, you don't have to go to BUD/s again.