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FY17 CDR Promotion Board Basic Stats

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Here are the promotion board statistics from the FY17 O5 board released yesterday:

  • Below Zone – 0 officers selected/382 eligible – 0% selection rate
  • In Zone – 85 officers selected/192 eligible – 44% selection rate
  • Above Zone – 40 officers selected/129 eligible – 31% selection rate

You can find an introduction to promotion board math here, but the basics for this specific board were:

  • The overall promotion opportunity was 65%, the lowest in years. Why was it so low? The short answer is that the promotion opportunity is selected as a force management tool. In other words, someone somewhere decided that 65% was the right number to right size the Medical Corps.
  • The number of in zone officers was 192.
  • Multiply 65% by 192 and you have 125 officers they could select, which is exactly how many they picked.

I’ll put together an updated post on what to do if you didn’t promote, and one on what to do if you did, but here is the old one for those not selected for promotion.

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Proposed Modifications to the Officer Promotion System

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There’s been a lot of recent articles about proposed changes to the officer promotion system.  There are some references as the end of this post, but the summary is that all of the following are being considered but would require legislative change by Congress:

  • Incentivize our best performing officers by authorizing the services to establish policies to determine rank order for promotions based upon an individual’s superior performance, instead of promoting based on the date which the officer was initially commissioned.
  • Providing the option for an officer to defer when they are considered for a promotion, giving officers and the services flexibility to pursue career-broadening opportunities that benefit the force without jeopardizing their career progression.
  • Officers in a “critical career field” would be offered the chance to continue to serve beyond the current maximum terms (20 years as a LCDR, 28 years as a CDR, 30 years as a CAPT).  It is not clear whether medicine would be a “critical career field.”

Here are the references:

Fact-Sheet-The-Next-Two-Links-to-the-Force-of-the-Future

Memorandum-The-Next-Two-Links-to-the-Force-of-the-Future

http://www.militarytimes.com/story/military/careers/2016/06/09/pentagon-promotion-up-or-out/85638312/

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