There could be a host of reasons for this. I know one guy who's elderly mother came deathly ill in the middle of training... they worked with him but of course he finished way later than the rest of his class. I know other guy who had an interruption for medical reasons. My QLOE examiner called in sick and they sent me home for 3 weeks due to the sims being booked up. So yeah, abnormal things happen that make such numbers suspect.

That said, while I was going through training, there was a backlog in IOE such that everyone was being stalled. I had an extra week off between indoc and special curiculum, and extra week for CBT, and 2 extra weeks between systems and sims. All time paid at training pay mind you.

That said, I don't think there's a back log for IOE anymore, as far as I can tell, all of my class was called for IOE in less than a week. Any delays in training will have to do with sim availability at this point imo. But any 'most senior' or 'most junior' guy questions really need to understand the context of the answer.

All this in reference to the 145.