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You Were Selected for Promotion to O5 or O6 – Should You Accept It?
BLUF – If you are hoping to retire but are not willing to serve 3 years as a Commander or Captain, you should decline the promotion. (This is not applicable if you are resigning. Only if you are hoping to retire.)
The policy regarding promotions and retirements is governed by OPNAVINST 1811.3A. If you are lucky enough to be selected for promotion to O5 or O6, you should be familiar with this instruction and make sure you are willing to spend 3 years as a CDR or CAPT before you plan to retire.
Paragraph 4b of the OPNAVINST states:
“Officers must satisfy the minimum active duty time-in-grade requirement to retire in the highest grade satisfactorily served…Officers who desire to retire before completion of the minimum time-in-grade requirement must decline appointment to the next higher grade. Officers who have accepted appointment to the next higher grade must satisfy the retired grade criteria in paragraph 7.”
Seems like we need to go to paragraph 7…
“7. Time-in-Grade Requirements. Unless retirement in the next inferior grade is directed by SECNAV for an officer or warrant officer under reference (c), then officers, warrant officers, and enlisted members retired voluntarily or transferred to the Fleet Reserve shall be retired in the highest grade satisfactorily held upon completion of the following time-in-grade requirements…Three years for an officer serving on active duty in pay grade O5 or O6.”
Paragraph 5b states:
“Unless waived by proper authority, approval of requests for voluntary retirement or transfer to the Fleet Reserve will normally be denied until an individual has completed: (1) The applicable time-in-grade requirements of paragraph 7;”
In addition, paragraph 7e states:
“COMNAVPERSCOM shall normally deny retirement requests or Fleet Reserve requests of members serving on active duty in, whose length of service in the highest grade held while on active duty does not meet the time-in-grade requirements specified above.”
What’s the bottom line? There are certain exceptions spelled out in this policy, and you can get information on time-in-grade or next-lower-grade waivers here and here, but if you want to retire and accept promotion to CDR or CAPT you should be willing to serve in that rank for 3 years. Otherwise, you should decline the promotion.
FY18 O6 Selection Statistics by Specialty
Here is the specialty specific data:
| # IZ | #SEL IZ | % SELECT IZ | # AZ | #SEL AZ | % SELECT AZ | # BZ | #SEL BZ | % SEL BZ | |
| FLT SRG | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 6 | 1 | 16.67% | 2 | 0 | 0.00% |
| RAM | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 4 | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0 | 0.00% |
| ANESTH | 3 | 2 | 66.67% | 15 | 0 | 0.00% | 18 | 0 | 0.00% |
| GEN SURG | 2 | 1 | 50.00% | 11 | 1 | 9.09% | 11 | 0 | 0.00% |
| NEURO SURG | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0 | 0.00% |
| OB GYN | 4 | 2 | 50.00% | 9 | 2 | 22.22% | 5 | 0 | 0.00% |
| GMO | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! |
| OPHTH | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | 6 | 0 | 0.00% |
| ORTHO | 5 | 1 | 20.00% | 8 | 0 | 0.00% | 6 | 0 | 0.00% |
| OTO | 4 | 2 | 50.00% | 6 | 3 | 50.00% | 6 | 0 | 0.00% |
| URO | 3 | 1 | 33.33% | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | 7 | 0 | 0.00% |
| PREV MED | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | 3 | 2 | 66.67% | 8 | 0 | 0.00% |
| OCC MED | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 5 | 1 | 20.00% | 1 | 0 | 0.00% |
| PHYS MED | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! |
| PATH | 3 | 2 | 66.67% | 8 | 0 | 0.00% | 6 | 0 | 0.00% |
| DERM | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 4 | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0 | 0.00% |
| EMERG | 5 | 2 | 40.00% | 7 | 3 | 42.86% | 16 | 0 | 0.00% |
| FAM PRAC | 6 | 1 | 16.67% | 27 | 3 | 11.11% | 28 | 0 | 0.00% |
| INT MED | 5 | 3 | 60.00% | 23 | 3 | 13.04% | 21 | 0 | 0.00% |
| NEURO | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | 4 | 0 | 0.00% |
| UMO | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | 4 | 0 | 0.00% | 2 | 0 | 0.00% |
| PEDS | 3 | 0 | 0.00% | 8 | 0 | 0.00% | 13 | 0 | 0.00% |
| NUC MED | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! |
| PSYCH | 2 | 0 | 0.00% | 7 | 2 | 28.57% | 10 | 0 | 0.00% |
| DIAG RAD | 11 | 5 | 45.45% | 15 | 4 | 26.67% | 16 | 1 | 6.25% |
| RAD ONC | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 0 | 0 | #DIV/0! | 1 | 0 | 0.00% |
| TOTAL | 63 | 23 | 36.51% | 176 | 26 | 14.77% | 192 | 1 | 0.52% |
Basic FY-18 O6 Promotion Board Statistics
FY-18 Active-Duty Captain Staff Corps Selections
DTG R 041500Z MAY 17
FM SECNAV WASHINGTON DC
TO ALNAV
INFO SECNAV WASHINGTON DC
CNO WASHINGTON DC
CMC WASHINGTON DC
BT
UNCLAS
ALNAV 027/17
MSGID/GENADMIN/SECNAV WASHINGTON DC/-/MAY//
SUBJ/FY-18 ACTIVE-DUTY NAVY CAPTAIN STAFF CORPS SELECTIONS//
RMKS/1. I am pleased to announce the following Staff Corps Officers
on the Active-Duty list for promotion to the permanent grade of
Captain.
2. This message is not authority to deliver appointments. Authority
to effect promotion will normally be issued by future NAVADMINs
requiring NAVPERS 1421/7 preparation and forwarding of document to
PERS-806.
3. Frocking is not authorized for any Officer listed below until
specific authorization is received per SECNAVINST 1420.2A.
4. For proper alphabetical order read from left to right on each
line. The numbers following each name to the right indicate the
relative seniority among selectees within each competitive
category. Members are directed to verify their select status via
BUPERS Online.
Medical Corps
Akintonde Oladapo A 0013 Almond Nathaniel B 0035
Austin Katherine C 0030 Baasen Chad M 0005
Brooks John S 0020 Bui Han Quang 0006
Casey Henry F III 0017 Conley George S 0007
Davis Konrad Leslie 0037 Drew Brendon Geoffrey 0033
Faix Dennis J 0004 Fernandez Nathanial 0043
Forsberg Jonathan A 0049 Furlong David Michael 0045
Gaball Curtis Wesley 0046 Galitz Michael Shawn 0010
Gutierrez Ramiro Luis 0011 Hutcheson Tipton David 0008
Jacobs Michael B 0009 Kane Henry S 0024
Kronmann Karl C 0047 Latimer Kelly M 0012
Littlejohn Lanny F 0018 Matthews Karen Leigh 0015
Maves Ryan C 0026 Meadows Michael L 0002
Metzger Joel R 0039 Mohtashamian Arash 0040
Morrison Michele P 0044 Morton Mark Michael 0029
Mucciarone James J 0031 Mullens Frank Edward 0036
Ochsner Todd Justin 0032 Omalley Kevin Charles 0001
Saperstein Adam Kalen 0034 Schmidt Rolf Kirsten 0041
Schroeder Jason W 0050 Sellers Andrew J 0021
Skelton Sean C 0014 Smith James P 0019
Sweet Jason Douglas 0042 Swiatkowski Sean A 0027
Tepera Christopher M 0038 Tetteh Hassan Adjeafio 0016
Thibodeau Kristopher P 0003 Vincent John Wade 0048
Wauson Matthew J 0028 Way Christopher H 0025
Webster Kedric E 0023 Wise Sean R 0022
Dental Corps
Bleile Jeff Andrew 0007 Bowden Toni Annette 0012
Brown Daniel Allen 0002 Caballero Hector A 0001
Crecelius Christopher 0014 Halquist Tuanh Carson 0011
Hines Thomas Blair Jr 0013 Jenkins Molly Ann 0009
Jones David William 0016 Lee Rebecca Ortenzio 0015
Mayberry Keith Lynn 0003 Osborne Nancy 0010
Petrich Anton 0008 Santos Raoul Hidalgo 0004
Trinh Hien 0006 Zeller Jeffrey G 0005
Medical Service Corps
Andrews Garland H 0015 Arfsten Darryl Phillip 0008
Blighton Gordon Roy 0016 Bohrer Brian Lee 0006
Chapman Stephen Andrew 0017 Chavez Sergio 0018
Enriquez Michael O 0021 Grady William E 0019
Higgins Robert Patrick 0005 Klinger Jeffrey Joseph 0011
Kluegel Bradley C 0014 Lewis Jason Todd 0020
Piner Thomas Jefferson 0009 Schiermeier Paul Scott 0010
Schoen Spencer Todd 0002 Stevens Michael E Jr 0007
Sunman Michael Lee 0012 Thompson Timothy T 0004
Tizon Romeo T Jr 0013 Welsh Eric Richard 0003
Yeager Meredith Lee 0001
Judge Advocate General’s Corps
Beran Matthew Louis 0002 Brewen Marc Scandlyn 0012
Fulton Marcus Neil 0004 Gawronski Stacia Jane 0013
Greer Christopher J 0015 Hopgood Vanessa Claire 0008
Hutchison Frankie D 0001 Larson Amy Kendall 0007
Mccann Kimberley Black 0011 Partridge Heather Dawn 0017
Reyes Stephen Calvo 0014 Rosen Marc Shein 0006
Stephens Jonathan T 0009 Sutton Jeffrey Allen 0010
Wallace Dustin Ernest 0016 Wexler Ian Scott 0003
Nurse Corps
Allanson Michael John 0002 Ashman Randy E 0013
Beard Jessica Denise 0012 Blankenbaker Susanne E 0021
Burkett Jenny Sigel 0026 Castro Alison H 0009
Cather Charles Louis 0010 Clark Daniel W 0016
Currie Carolyn Marie 0004 Desamero Joseph L 0019
Diaz Victor M 0011 Fetherston Robert D 0003
Gomez Joseph Anthony 0022 Gruetzmacher Anna M 0001
Hamilton Harry W 0006 Hartung Charles S 0007
Hurt Bobby Joe 0017 Layton Jason D 0014
Lucero Angelo Paolo 0023 Mcrae Fredora A 0025
Parker Mary Katherine 0018 Prieto Elisabet 0015
Thomas David Van Dyke 0005 Villaire Paul Smith 0020
Voeks Anthony Gerhard 0008 White Gerard J 0024
Supply Corps
Barakat Babak Ali 0013 Billings Roger L 0018
Brown Timothy A 0028 Clark George W III 0009
Day Stuart Morrison 0031 Garrison Roy Morgan 0027
Giles Tony V 0002 Griffin Timothy Robert 0030
Gronberg Troy M 0003 Jefferson Michael N 0001
Kent Blake Warren 0010 Klingenberg Jason E 0012
Kong Bruce 0026 Logan Scott David 0019
Lugo Manuel X 0015 Mahler Christian M 0017
Mazzarella Robert S 0029 Mccormack Michael C 0021
Mckay Joshua Hudson 0020 Meyer Jacqueline M 0004
Pidgeon Edward Daley 0006 Rindy Wade Wallace 0011
Russo Nicholas Robert 0007 Ryker Kenneth W III 0016
Sidibe Kadiatou Fatima 0022 Strauss James Hunter 0005
Strohl Shane Phillip 0024 Waldron Christopher A 0023
Wilhelm Richard H 0008 Wilson Stephen M 0014
Chaplain Corps
Axtell Lee A 0001 Buford Maurice A 0010
Cash Carey Hall 0013 Christian Robert Russ 0012
Coffey Joseph L 0005 Conroe Jon Wallace 0014
Cox Denis Norman 0004 Duesenberry Stephen S 0011
Lee Erik Paul 0015 Malana Judy Takada 0003
Middleton William E 0007 Price Curtis 0002
Vance Robert Jay 0008 Waite Brian Kimball 0009
Winward Mark S 0006
Civil Engineer Corps
Bestafka Thomas M 0001 Brown James Edward 0013
Cavnar Jay Michael 0009 Cho James Jung Hyun 0010
Dieguez Miguel 0004 Hutchison Alexander K 0008
Meek Gordon Eugene III 0002 Miranda Rafael A 0011
Powell Jeffrey Scott 0003 Rang Russell C 0005
Riethmiller Matthew C 0007 Scott Laurie 0006
Stavish Francis Joseph 0012
Limited Duty Officer (Staff)
King Danny Webster 0001
5. Released by Sean J. Stackley, Acting Secretary of the Navy.//
O5 Promotion Opportunity Up to 75%!
Here is the convening order, where you’ll see that the promotion opportunity is 75% (up from 65% last year):
Here are the members of the board:
FY18 Medical Corps Promotion Opportunity 80%
Here are the just released FY18 Staff Corps promotion board members and convening order, which states that the promotion opportunity is 80%. Below is the section of my Promo Prep document that explains how promotion board math works, because this does not mean you have an 80% chance of promoting. That said, it is the highest its been in a long time:
WHAT ARE MY CHANCES OF PROMOTING?
See the tables below for the actual promotion statistics.
| FY13 | FY14 | FY15 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | |
| LCDR | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |
| CDR | 80% | 80% | 70% | 70% | 65% | |
| CAPT | 60% | 60% | 60% | 50% | 70% | 80% |
Promotion opportunity. This percentage is multiplied by the zone size to give the number of officers to be selected for promotion. For example, if the promotion opportunity is 60% and there are 100 officers in-zone, then 60 will be selected for promotion. This 60, however, may come from officers who are below-zone, in-zone, or above-zone. For example, maybe 50 of the 60 are in-zone, and 10 are above-zone. That is why the percentage of people in-zone who are selected for promotion is always lower than the promotion opportunity. See below…
| FY13 | FY14 | FY15 | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | |
| LCDR | 97% | 89% | 90% | 93% | 88% | |
| CDR | 58% | 66% | 49% | 53% | 44% | |
| CAPT | 55% | 43% | 47% | 39% | 34% |
Actual percentage of in-zone candidates selected for promotion.
Promotion Zones Officially Released. Game On!
BLUF – If you are above zone, in zone, or below zone for a FY18 promotion board, it is time to download the Promo Prep Document, read it, and do what it says to make sure you’re ready for the board.
The FY18 promotion zones have been officially released:
NOTICE OF CONVENING FY-18 NAVY ACTIVE-DUTY PROMOTION SELECTION BOARDS
This message announces the promotion board dates:
- 7 FEB 2017 Staff Corps Captain (Board #170)
- 28 MAR 2017 – Staff Corps Commander (Board #265)
- 16 MAY 2017 – Staff Corps Lieutenant Commander (Board #300)
Here is what it says about the promotion zones:
The Secretary of the Navy has authorized the release of the following list indicating the names, Active-Duty List numbers and dates of rank of the Senior in-zone, Junior in-zone and Junior officer eligible for consideration for promotion in each competitive category as of the date of this NAVADMIN. In addition, those officers on the Active-Duty List and in the same competitive category who are senior to the Senior in-zone officer listed in their category are considered above-zone and are also eligible for consideration.
CAPT Staff Corps Zones for Board #170
Senior in-zone – CDR S. Ashby 022916-50 01 OCT 2011
Junior in-zone – CDR J. Miller 023124-00 01 SEP 2012
Junior eligible – CDR B. A. Waterman 023610-75 01 SEP 2014
CDR Staff Corps Zones for Board #265
Senior in-zone – LCDR A. J. Owings II 037432-50 01 OCT 2011
Junior in-zone – LCDR A. M. Dicarlomeacham 038187-50 01 SEP 2012
Junior eligible – LCDR J. M. Carness 040050-00 01 SEP 2014
LCDR Staff Corps Zones for Board #300
Senior in-zone LT S. M. Simmons 112278-00 26 OCT 2011
Junior in-zone – LT T. B. Kiner 117814-00 17 SEP 2012
Junior eligible LT J. D. Gutierrez 130542-00 11 AUG 2014
If you don’t understand how to figure out where you are in the zones, just download the Promo Prep document. It will tell you how to figure it out with your date of rank.
Also of note, BUPERS On-Line will be undergoing maintenance for the next two weeks.
Summary of Specialty Leader Business Meeting
Here is a brief summary of last week’s Specialty Leader Business Meeting that is always held in conjunction with the Graduate Medical Education Selection Board:
- Current interim Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) need to formally apply to the next screening board in summer 2017. I would STRONGLY encourage other people to apply as well because it is a screened/appointed leadership position that allows you to remain clinically active and that I also think will lead to promotion to O6 if done successfully.
- Announcements for nominative positions often come out with very little time until the nominations are due. They all require your CV, BIO, Letter of Intent (LOI), Officer Summary Record (OSR), and Performance Summary Record (PSR). It is best if you have these ready to go due to the often short timeline. I will tell you that I update my CV and military biography monthly and have multiple LOI templates at the ready at all times, so I practice what I preach. Your OSR/PSR can downloaded from BUPERS On-Line anytime, so that requires no prep (assuming BOL is working).
- Current overall Medical Corps manning is 103.4%. This is of no real use to you but is simply an interesting fact/statistic. It does, perhaps, limit our promotion opportunity a lit bit, but…
- The Medical Corps promotion opportunities for FY18 are expected to be higher than they have been in recent years. You never know the actual percentage until the board has concluded, but this is certainly good news.
- As of now, there is no change in the conference approval process. Sorry.
- The Career Intermission Program (CIP) has been extended until 2019. This program allows you to take up to 3 years off from the Navy to do something else, hit the pause button on progression toward promotion, and then return afterward. You have a 2:1 additional commitment for any time off. In other words, if you take 2 years off you’ll owe 4 years when you return. Some people have tried to use the CIP to do fellowships on their own, but that is not the intent of the program and requests for CIP to do a fellowship will be closely scrutinized by BUMED before approval. Info on the program can be found here or you can contact your Detailer.
- There is no special pays update. They are still awaiting the NAVADMIN. The latest can always be found here:
http://www.med.navy.mil/bumed/Special_Pay/Pages/default.aspx
2016-2017 Edition of Joel Schofer’s Promo Prep
I’ve significantly updated the old version of the promo prep document that has been downloaded over 2,000 times. It now includes:
- Screen shots so you can be sure to find what you’re looking for
- Actual images from my own officer record so you know you’re looking in the right place
- Updated promotion board statistics
- Appendix VIII – detailed instructions on how to obtain the Executive Medicine AQD (thanks to whoever created this at BUMED or PERS as I’m not sure exactly where it came from)
- Up-to-date lists of all the medical AQDs and service schools
It is new, improved, and as always the newest version can be found here:
FY17 LCDR Promotion Board Stats by Specialty
Here is an Excel file with all the stats:
And here are the tables:
| FY17 MC LCDR SELECTIONS BY ZONE | |||
| # OF PEOPLE | # SELECTED | % SELECTED | |
| ABOVE ZONE | 7 | 3 | 42.86% |
| IN ZONE | 249 | 219 | 87.95% |
| BELOW ZONE | 504 | 24 | 4.76% |
| FY17 MEDICAL CORPS LIEUTENANT COMMANDER SELECTION BY SUBSPECIALTY | |||||||||
| SELECTION OPPORTUNITY 100 % | |||||||||
| # IZ | #SEL IZ | % SELECT IZ | # AZ | #SEL AZ | % SELECT AZ | # BZ | #SEL BZ | % SEL BZ | |
| FLT SRG | 42 | 24 | 57.14% | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | 117 | 3 | 2.56% |
| RAM | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| ANESTH | 11 | 10 | 90.91% | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 4 | 0 | 0.00% |
| SURG | 6 | 5 | 83.33% | 1 | 0 | 0.00% | 18 | 2 | 11.11% |
| NEURO SURG | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0.00% |
| OB GYN | 10 | 9 | 90.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 13 | 1 | 7.69% |
| GMO | 29 | 23 | 79.31% | 2 | 1 | 50.00% | 106 | 4 | 3.77% |
| OPHTH | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 3 | 1 | 33.33% |
| ORTHO | 5 | 5 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 17 | 2 | 11.76% |
| OTO | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 5 | 0 | 0.00% |
| URO | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 2 | 0 | 0.00% |
| PREV MED | 1 | 1 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| OCC MED | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| PHYS MED | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| PATH | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 6 | 0 | 0.00% |
| DERM | 3 | 3 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0.00% |
| EMERG | 14 | 14 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 12 | 1 | 8.33% |
| FAM PRAC | 38 | 38 | 100.00% | 2 | 1 | 50.00% | 60 | 6 | 10.00% |
| INT MED | 24 | 23 | 95.83% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 50 | 1 | 2.00% |
| NEURO | 2 | 2 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0.00% |
| UMO | 14 | 12 | 85.71% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 48 | 2 | 4.17% |
| PEDS | 18 | 18 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 20 | 1 | 5.00% |
| NUC MED | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| PSYCH | 14 | 14 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 12 | 0 | 0.00% |
| DIAG RAD | 7 | 7 | 100.00% | 0 | 0 | N/A | 6 | 0 | 0.00% |
| RAD ONC | 0 | 0 | N/A | 0 | 0 | N/A | 1 | 0 | 0.00% |
| TOTAL | 249 | 219 | 87.95% | 7 | 3 | 42.86% | 504 | 24 | 4.76% |
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