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USMEPCOM, recruiting partners streamline waiver process
December 5, 2022 — When an applicant qualifies for military service at a MEPS, they sign their contract, take the Oath of Enlistment, and go home not as an applicant but as a future service member enrolled in their service’s Delayed Entry Program, or DEP. If an applicant is medically disqualified at a MEPS, they go home without entering the DEP even if they are likely to receive a waiver for their disqualifying medical condition. ... MORE

New Air Force recruits tour a C-130H Hercules at Dobbins Air Reserve Base

San Antonio twin brothers strengthen bond by joining Navy together
September 29, 2020 — Two Highlands High School seniors have made the decision to join the world’s most powerful naval force, America’s Navy. Twin brothers Kalvin and Kelvin Rodriguez Rivera of San Antonio entered the Navy’s Delayed Entry Program and are making preparations to attend recruit training to become naval aircrewmen. ... MORE

Twin brothers Kalvin (left) and Kelvin Rodriguez Rivera of San Antonio entered the Navy’s Delayed Entry Program and are making preparations to attend recruit training to become naval aircrewmen. The brothers, who are seniors at Highlands High School, were recruited by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brandon Rodriguez of Navy Recruiting Station Southeast San Antonio.

Twins continue family tradition of service by joining America’s Navy
January 30, 2019 — Continuing a family tradition of military service, fraternal twin sisters Hanna and Halle Von Plueren of San Antonio, are joining America’s Navy... MORE

(From left) Chief Petty Officer Sambath Ham, Navy Recruiting Station North East; future Sailor Halle Von Plueren; Master Chief Petty Officer Matthew Maduemesi, chief recruiter of Navy Recruiting District San Antonio; future Sailor Hanna Von Plueren; and Petty Officer 2nd Class Francisco Sierra of NRS North East, pose for photos at NRD San Antonio headquarters at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston. Continuing a family tradition of military service, the Von Pluerens of San Antonio, who are fraternal twins, are joining America’s Navy.

NRD San Antonio hosts DEP, Influencer Meeting to prepare women for the Navy
November 26, 2018 — Division 6 of Navy Recruiting District San Antonio held their All-Female Delayed Entry Program, or DEP, and Key Influencer Meeting at the Rosenberg Sky Room on the campus of the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. ... MORE

Chief Petty Officer Isabel Guerrero, Division 6 leading chief petty officer, Navy Recruiting District San Antonio, speaks with (left) Erica Jew of St. Louis and (right) future Sailor Ashiyanna Landers of Newport News, Va., during an All-Female Delayed Entry Program and Key Influencer Meeting hosted by NRD San Antonio at the Rosenberg Sky Room on the campus of the University of the Incarnate Word. Landers, who attended San Antonio College, joined the Navy to become a hospital corpsman. Jew attended the event to provide Landers with moral and emotional support.

Recruiters, future Sailors, donate time to San Antonio Food Bank
February 9, 2017 — Instilling the “Whole Sailor Concept” was the mission of Navy Recruiting Station Northeast San Antonio during a Delayed Entry Program, or DEP, meeting held at the San Antonio Food Bank Feb. 1... MORE

Cesar Lozano, a future Sailor in the Navy Delayed Entry Program, or DEP, volunteers at the San Antonio Food Bank. Lozano, a 2014 graduate of Veterans Memorial High School in Brownsville, participated in the bi-weekly DEP meeting hosted by Navy Recruiting Station Northeast San Antonio. The purpose of the volunteerism was to instill the “Whole Sailor Concept”. Lozano will attend recruit training in Great Lakes, Mich. in April with follow-on training as an aviation structural mechanic.