Navy Medicine FY2022 Foundation Trainings
The below training announcement is for the Navy Medicine FY2022 Foundation Trainings, a virtual series of courses for individuals who perform data analysis and wish to enhance their knowledge and skillset. Instructions on how to sign up are in the file:
MC Seats in Joint Senior Medical Leader Course
Who: Senior officers who have a potential nomination as a Joint Task Force (JTF) Surgeon or JTF senior medical leader
What: Joint Senior Medical Leader Course (JSMLC)
When: March 21-25, 2022 (In-person)
Where: DHHQ, Falls Church, Virginia (funded by applicant’s command)
Course Description: The course is designed to enhance the preparation of medical leaders, senior O-5 to O-6, who have a high probability of being nominated as a JTF Surgeon, JTF Senior medical leader, or occupy a senior medical planning position in a joint environment. In addition, the course would be valuable for those serving in senior Service departments responsible for the training and preparing of forces for Joint operations and deployment. JSMLC is a demanding, fast paced and interactive program. Speakers will include former JTF Commanders, JTF Surgeons, subject matter experts in major contingency and stability operations, interagency operations, and representatives of Joint Staff Directorates responsible for policy development at the highest levels in DOD.
Additional details here:
Medical Corps is allowed 3-4 seats per course. Prospective applicants should send a CV and BIO to the Medical Corps Career Planner, CAPT Rhett Barrett, for MC nominations NLT January 14th.
Pay Raise, TRICARE Changes, and More: What Made the Cut in This Year’s NDAA
Most relevant to us from this article from MOAA are the following sections:
Temporary one-year halt to military medical billet cuts: This NDAA requires a Government Accountability Office (GAO) evaluation on the DoD analyses used to support any reduction or realignment of military medical manning. DoD is also required to report to Congress on the number of uniformed and civilian personnel assigned to a military treatment facility (MTF) as of Oct. 1, 2019, and a comparable accounting as of Sept. 30, 2022. If the number in 2022 is less than the number in 2019, DoD must provide a full explanation for the reduction to demonstrate compliance with past provisions halting medical billet cuts.
Pay raise: A 2.7% raise for servicemembers keeps pace with the Employment Cost Index (ECI), but does not address the 2.6% gap behind ECI from previous years. The House Rules Committee asked the House Armed Services Committee to look for further increases in the next NDAA, given concerns over junior enlisted family financial problems.
Enhanced parental leave: Primary and secondary caregivers for the birth, adoption, or long-term foster placement of a child will be authorized up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave. This is a significant increase for Navy and Marine Corps secondary caregivers, who currently only have two weeks of parental leave.
2022 BAH Rates and Finance Friday Articles
Here’s the article about the 2022 BAH rates:
Here are the rest of the articles:
- Does Money Buy Happiness?
- Giving Advice for Donating to Charitable Causes
- How to handle COVID-19’s financial impacts
- I Was A Victim Of Bank Fraud – Here’s What Happened
- Living Our Lives in a Dual-Physician Income Household
- Looking Long
- The Bogle Method to Calculate Future Stock Returns
- The Hidden Costs of Free Investment Services
- VA Home Loans Grow in Popularity, But Challenges for Buyers Remain
No, a SECDEF Memo Did Not Change the Time-in-Grade Retirement Requirements
There has been a SECDEF memo flying around the interwebs that is being misinterpreted. People think it might let them retire at the 2-year mark as an O5 or O6, but there has been no change to current policy (which requires 3 years). Here is the response from PERS:
“Some of you have been fielding queries about the attached memo so wanted to address this for everyone. The memo does delegate authority to the Service Secretaries to reduce time in grade requirements. However, this delegation does not equate to Service policy. We are still awaiting on how the Navy will implement any changes in time in grade requirements.
So for now, please inform any folks inquiring about it that no formal Navy policy has been promulgated based on the new authority. And current policy stands.”
I did not attach the memo because this guy is not in the habit of posting SECDEF memos on a public blog.
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