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Full Length Photos are Coming Back for FY20 Promotion Boards
They used to display full length photographs for all officer promotion boards. Then 1-2 years ago they stopped doing it. Supposedly they are going to start displaying them again and a NAVADMIN will be released sometime soon. The requirement to have a photo in your current rank never went away. It just wasn’t displayed at the promotion boards anymore.
By instruction, you have 90 days after getting promoted to get a new photo submitted in your new rank.
For those preparing for the FY20 promotion boards, you might want to get a photo done. The requirement is to have one in your current rank, but optimally you have one with your most up-to-date warfare devices and ribbon rack.
This MILPERSMAN article tells you how to get one done and how to submit it:
Finance Friday – Personal Finance Articles
Here are this week’s personal finance articles:
Military Monday – Money News You Can Use on 3 SEP 2018
Social Security Tools – How Much Will You Get?
Did You Really Fail to Select for Promotion?
If your name was not on the promotion list, you probably weren’t selected for promotion. There is, however, a chance that you actually were selected for promotion but your name was removed after the promotion board. Why would this happen?
After promotion boards there are some systems that are “scrubbed” to ensure that no adverse or reportable information exists for the officers selected by a promotion board or by an administrative board (the CO/XO/CMO/OIC board, for example). Here is a chart that shows you the systems that are checked:
As you can see, if you have problems with your security clearance, the Inspector General, Naval Criminal Investigative Services, or any legal issues, your name could be removed and your promotion put on hold. How do you tell if this happened to you?
First, go to BUPERS On-Line and click on the link for “Advancements/Selection Boards” as pointed out with the large arrow:
Now you should see a screen similar to this one:
As you can see, I was a “SELECT” for O6. If you actually were a non-select for promotion you’d see a “N” where my “S” is. If you were “scrubbed” from the promotion list, you’ll see an “H” for HOLD.
If you don’t see anything, then you didn’t fail to select. You probably weren’t looked at by the board. This most often happens to people who trained in the NADDS program in civilian training programs and weren’t on active duty for a whole year. Sometimes, though, these people will show up on the reserve promotion lists, so don’t lose hope until you check that list as well. As of now, the FY19 LCDR list for the reserves isn’t out yet.
If you are on hold, I’d contact your Detailer to try and find out why.
Executive Director, Defense Health Board, Defense Health Agency – O6
This is a O6-level leadership opportunity with the Defense Health Agency. The candidate should be a senior leader with extensive experience in healthcare delivery and a Masters (or higher) of Public Health or other healthcare discipline that required a thesis/dissertation.
Applications are due to the Corps Chief’s Office NLT 1 OCT 2018 via your Specialty Leader.
Here is a document with all the details of the position:
Suggestions for Promo Prep Revisions
I usually start the annual revision of the Promo Prep document once the LCDR promotion results are released. If you have any suggestions for the revision, put them in the comments section of this post and I’ll try to incorporate them.
IdealMedicalCare.org – 33 Orthopaedic Surgeon Suicides: How to Prevent #34
This is a powerful piece on physician suicide from a physician who has investigated over 1,000 of them. If you read this and see yourself or a colleague heading down this path, please do what you can to get yourself or them some help:
Updated List of “Fair Share” Billets Available
Here’s the latest list of “fair share” billets I pulled off the Medical Corps sharepoint page. Of note, they are called “fair share” because each specialty gets their fair share of them (or at least that’s what I was always told). Contact your Detailer if interested:
| Position | Command | Homeport | Rank | Traits | Fill date | Tour length |
| Student | Naval War College | Newport, Rhode Island | CDR | JPME1 completed | Summer Annually | One year |
| Physician researcher | Naval Medical Research Center | Silver Springs, Maryland | All ranks | Researcher qualified | Summer 2019 | Three years |
| SMO | AS 39 EMORY S LAND | Guam | CAPT | Primary Care Skills | Summer 2019 | Two years |
| SMO | FRANK CABLE | Guam | CAPT | Primary Care Skills | Summer 2019 | Two years |
| Group Surgeon/SMO | NCG2 (Seabees) | Gulf Port, MS | CDR | Primary Care Skills | May-19 | Three years |
| REGT SURGEON | 8MARREGT 2MARDIV | Camp LeJuene, NC | LCDR | Primary Care Skills | Summer 2019 | Two years |
| REGT SURGEON | 3MEDBN 3MLG | Okinawa, Japan | LCDR | Primary Care Skills | Summer 2019 | Two years |
| DEPT HEAD | CVN 73 GEO WASHINGTON | Norfolk, VA | LCDR | Primary Care Skills | WINTER 2018/Spring 2019 | Two years |
| DEPT HEAD | CVN 75 H TRUMAN | Norfolk, VA | LCDR | Primary Care Skills | Summer 2019 | Two years |
| DEPT HEAD | CVN 70 VINSON | Bremerton, WA | LCDR | Primary Care Skills | Summer 2019 | Two years |
| SMO | LHD 7 IWO JIMA | Mayport, FL | LCDR/CDR | Primary Care Skills | Summer 2019 | Two years |
| SMO | LHD 3 KEARSARGE | Norfolk, VA | LCDR/CDR | Primary Care Skills | Summer 2019 | Two years |
| SMO | LHA 6 AMERICA | San Diego, CA | LCDR/CDR | Primary Care Skills | Summer 2019 | Two years |
| SMO | LHD 4 BOXER | San Diego, CA | LCDR/CDR | Primary Care Skills | Summer 2019 | Two years |
| DIR HS/GHE | NMTSC F DT SA | San Antonio, TX | CAPT/CAPT(s) | GHE experience | Summer 2019 | Three years |
| GROUP SURGEON | 3d MLG Surgeon | Okinawa, Japan | CDR/CAPT | Leadership/FMF | August 2019 | Two years |
| WING SURGEON | 2d MAW Surgeon | Camp LeJuene, NC | CDR/CAPT | Leadership/FMF | July 2019 | Two years |
| Director of Public Health | HQMC Jul 19 | Arlington, VA | CDR/CAPT | Prev Med/Public Health | July 2019 | Three years |
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