Obbie has his points tho his words are hard to take..from what I heard,SO training has the least priority after command and FO..I went for 1st intetview for SO like 3 years ago and failed,came for another try for FO early this year and the guy who made it for SO who came with me during the 1st interview is still there doing his SO training..it is almost 2 years since he joined..and to live with 10k qar a month for 2 years is no joke there man..