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Comment by NavyDads Co-Admin, Gary on May 22, 2013 at 11:20am

Cycle 219 March 2013 Petty Officer (E4-E6) Advancement Results – FY14:

Results Are Released!

About 3,700 fewer active-duty petty officers will advance this cycle, with advancement opportunity falling across all three paygrades.

Active-duty sailors were selected to fill 22,681 quotas this cycle, compared with 26,379 from November. E-5s saw the sharpest drop in opportunity — 26.51 percent this cycle, down from 32.42 percent last cycle. E-6s (17.46 percent, down from 19.59 percent) and E-6s (43.77 percent, down from 47.7 percent) also saw decreases.

Full-time support sailors and canvasser recruiters will fill 573 quotas, up from 476 last year.

I'm so proud of my son and super happy!
BZ to all of the sailors who've advanced HOOYAH! :)

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on May 22, 2013 at 10:33am

some advancement (E4-E6) links- note these are by rating:

http://www.slideshare.net/NETPDTC/219-active-duty-pr-yn

http://www.slideshare.net/NETPDTC/219-active-duty-its-os

http://www.slideshare.net/NETPDTC/219-active-duty-hm-it

http://www.slideshare.net/NETPDTC/219-active-duty-dc-gsm

http://www.slideshare.net/NETPDTC/219-active-duty-ati-ctt

http://www.slideshare.net/NETPDTC/219-active-duty-abe-as

Comment by NavyDads Co-Admin, Gary on May 21, 2013 at 9:17am

Quotas are out for Cycle 219 March 2013 Petty Officer (E4-E6) http://www.navy.mil/docs/active_pao_cycle_219.pdf

Comment by NavyDads Co-Admin, Gary on May 2, 2013 at 11:31pm

September Exams Pave Way for Continued Advancement...

Story Number: NNS130430-05
Release Date: 4/30/2013 1:51:00 PM

By Ensign Jacqui Wengler, Naval Education and Training Command Public Affairs

PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- The Navy announced guidance for the administration of the Cycle 220 September 2013 E4-E6 Advancement Exam via Naval Administrative Message (NAVADMIN) 116/13, released April 29.

The message outlines procedures and general examination information. Eligibility criteria, deadlines for commands to confirm eligibility lists, waiver application procedures and special requirements are also contained in the NAVADMIN.

NAVADMIN 116/13 covers Active Duty, Active Reserve, Full Time Support, and Canvasser Recruiter Sailors testing for advancement in rate.

Because of the Personnel Security Investigation (PSI) budget shortfall due to FY13 Continuing Resolution (CR) and sequestration, this cycle of exams will be different regarding security clearances. The NAVADMIN states that due to these budget shortfalls, Sailors with an expired or expiring security clearance are still considered to be in access and may participate in the exam cycle.

Commands pending deployment and deployed ships and Sailors who are unable to take the exams during the scheduled dates may order exams six months early. Educational Services Officers (ESOs) must follow procedures outlined in the message regarding missed examination cycles prior to Cycle 220.

For the first time in 13 years the examination answer sheet form has been updated. The new answer sheets reflect the newly-structured 175 question examination format and replaces the Social Security Number (SSN) with the Department of Defense Identification Number (DOD-ID). This new answer sheet will be green in color distinguishing it from the old red answer sheets. So far, nearly 500 new answer sheets have been sent to commands requesting early orders for Cycle 220.

Master Chief Cryptologic Technician Eddy Mejias, Naval Education and Training Professional Development Technology Center (NETPDTC) command master chief, says it is important for Sailors to take their careers into their own hands and ensure they use the resources produced by the Navy Advancement Center.

"The bibliographies published on Navy Advancement Center's Navy Knowledge Online (NKO) page provide each advancement candidate with the primary tools they will need to successfully master the content on cycle-specific exams," said Mejias. "We publish bibliographies directly from the questions used on an exam, so Sailors should have confidence in their exam preparation when they study all the material listed in their rating bibliography."

Examination results will be posted on the Navy Enlisted Advancement Systems (NEAS) website and may be accessed by ESOs and authorized viewers.

Comment by NavyDads Co-Admin, Gary on March 19, 2013 at 3:18pm

CNP Talks Tuition Assistance, PTS and More with Sailors in Norfolk...

Story Number: NNS130319-06 Release Date: 3/19/2013 1:32:00 PM

By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Darien G. Kenney, Navy Public Affairs Support Element - East

NORFOLK (NNS) -- Chief of Naval Personnel addressed Sailors during an all-hands call aboard Naval Station Norfolk, March 18.

Vice Adm. Scott Van Buskirk took this opportunity to discuss issues affecting Sailors' naval careers, their families and their futures. One of the big-ticket items in the news lately is tuition assistance.

"Ninety percent of Sailors who use TA complete the courses they take and Navy leadership is actively working to keep TA in this tough economy," said Van Buskirk. "They are looking at the structure to allow those Sailors who are eligible to continue to use it."

He also discussed the continued impact Sailors have throughout the fleet from an operational standpoint.

"The missions you are accomplishing are making a difference in the world because you are all tremendous ambassadors," said Van Buskirk. "We have supported deployments on the ground and on ships and are fully engaged in supporting critical missions from the Horn of Africa to Afghanistan to the Western Pacific."

Van Buskirk said his number one priority is to man the fleet by ensuring Sailors are assignable, deployable and distributable.

"In the last year, we have had 90 percent PTS approval and greater than 95 percent in the last four months," said Van Buskirk.

Van Buskirk said the Navy is continuing to make improvements to PTS, which increases Sailors' ability to have a say in their career and improve the ability to distribute Sailors where we need them most.

During a question and answer session, Van Buskirk took questions regarding the Navy's current financial state since enacting sequestration and what the future holds.

"It feels good to know that the Navy leadership hears our concerns and for the CNP to come and let us know that he is on our side and doing everything for Sailors," said Boatswain's Mate 2nd Class (SW/AW) Darius Branch.

When asked about retirement pay, Van Buskirk said a commission will be stood up to look at retirement pay, but current active duty will be grandfathered into the current retirement pay.

Much of the question and answer session focused on family-related programs, and Van Buskirk assured attendees the Navy is dedicated to helping Sailors and their families.

"Our Navy remains committed to maintaining the funding for our Sailors and family readiness programs as much as possible, and our goal is to have no impact on those programs in the future," said Van Buskirk.

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on February 8, 2013 at 10:07pm

sorry all....haven't been posting much though there is so much to keep up on.  The handwriting may be on the wall for the future of our sailors and our fleet. 

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on July 17, 2012 at 12:40am

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on June 16, 2012 at 9:58pm

why support the military when you can p!$$ away $500 mil on Solyndra and the like.....

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on June 16, 2012 at 9:04pm

hear that......Eric in Hawaii...no PCS x'fers makes me wonder how he's getting back to the mainland.......

Comment by NavyDads Admin (Paul) on June 16, 2012 at 8:05pm

from Navy Times:

More cuts looming

DoD to plan for fewer troops, frozen PCS moves, slashed bonuses

By Andrew Tilghman

atilghman@militarytimes.com

The massive defense cuts threat­ening the military next year would have an immediate impact on the active-duty force: halting travel, reducing incentive pays, abruptly slashing funding for Afghanistan operations and most likely leading to involuntary separations, according to experts.

Top Pentagon officials say they will begin formal planning this summer for the so-called seques­tration budget cuts that will take effect in January if Congress fails to reach an overarching deal to reduce federal spending. Many experts say it appears increasing­ly likely that the military will actually face the spending cuts that were considered highly improbable just a few months ago. “I expect sequestration in some form to take effect,” said Macken­zie Eaglen, a defense analyst with the American Enterprise Insti­tute. “I think the outcome is going to be pretty ugly, no matter what happens.” The cuts would reduce the Pen­tagon’s base budget to 2007 levels, adjusted for inflation.

Some pillars of military life will remain unchanged. Twice-month­ly paychecks, housing and food allowances and combat pay are set by law.

But many perks that pad pay­checks likely would end immedi­ately, such as re-enlistment bonus­es and the array of incentive pays provided to troops with special language skills or in specialty career fields such as aviation, sub­marines, surface ships and medicine, said Fred Pang, a former top Pentagon manpower official under President Clinton.

Re-enlistment standards likely would tighten as the services tried to shrink the force through attri­tion. The flow of new recruits would likely slow, and the Delayed Entry Program would expand as the services decided how to man­age their new budgets, Pang said.

Moreover, troops likely would face a halt to virtually all travel and moving assignments.

“All of a sudden, everybody is frozen in place,” Pang said. “For all intents and purposes, you’d stop all permanent change-of­station travel, all temporary duty travel, everything except for the medical kind or moving back from the combat zone.” Sequestration would affect the money that supports troops in Afghanistan and other overseas contingency operations, a Penta­gon spokeswoman said. But it remains unclear precisely what that impact would be.

President Obama has the authority to protect military per­sonnel accounts from the direct effects of sequestration. But that will not fully blunt the impact on service members.

“Even if you exempt personnel accounts, you are still going to have a big problem,” said Larry Korb, a former Pentagon manpow­er official under President Reagan who is now a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C.

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