Originally Posted by
rowdy trousers
isdon
I'm also trying to make sense of all this. Would you happen to know if your nephew only had RAAF as a preference, or whether he had also listed Navy, but with a lower preference number eg 5 for RAAF and 1 for Navy, or something like that.
Hi Rowdy.
Yes I know because he asked my advice on this.
While at flight screening he was told to score his preferences 1-5. He was told that putting less than a three on any of the non preferred services could possibly earn you a black mark. I’ve since found out that was incorrect advice.
I suggested he vote with his gut, but I cautioned against putting his non preferred service too high. He preferenced as follows:
RAAF 5
RAN 4
ARMY 3 (could have been 4, he wasn’t sure what to do with this)
What I’ve found out though was that if you ranked a non preferred service low then you wouldn’t be considered for it if you missed out in your first preference.
He voted very well as it turned out.