UNCLASSIFIED// REROUTE DETECTED ROUTINE R 091838Z OCT 14 PSN 986924K38 FM CNO WASHINGTON DC TO NAVADMIN BT UNCLAS SUBJ/FY-16 ENLISTED SELECTION BOARDS FOR NAVY RESERVE AND ACTIVE DUTY MASTER CHIEF AND SENIOR CHIEF PETTY OFFICERS CYCLE 225// NAVADMIN 237/14 MSGID/GENADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N1/OCT// REF/A/DOC/BUPERS/2NOV07// REF/B/DOC/COMNAVPERSCOM/1JUL12// REF/C/DOC/SECNAV/1JUN06// REF/D/DOC/COMNAVPERSCOM/15MAY11// REF/E/MSG/CNO WASHINGTON DC/282147ZJAN13// NARR/REF A IS BUPERSINST 1430.16F, ADVANCEMENT MANUAL FOR THE ENLISTED PERSONNEL OF U.S. NAVY AND U.S. NAVY RESERVE. REF B IS NAVAL MILITARY PERSONNEL MANUAL (MILPERSMAN) 1160-120, HIGH YEAR TENURE (HYT). REF C IS SECNAV MANUAL 5510.30, NAVY PERSONNEL SECURITY PROGRAM. REF D IS MILPERSMAN 1070-080, ENLISTED OFFICIAL MILITARY PERSONNEL FILE (OMPF). REF E IS NAVADMIN 016/13 SUBMISSION OF NAVY AWARDS TO THE OFFICIAL MILITARY PERSONNEL FILE. RMKS/1. This NAVADMIN announces the convening of the FY-16 E8/E9 Selection Boards for Navy reserve and active-duty personnel. The reserve board will consider personnel serving on active-duty as Full Time Support (FTS) and Selected Reserve (SELRES), to include those serving on voluntary and involuntary recall and mobilization orders. Mobilized Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) personnel are considered under the SELRES requirements for advancement. It is the responsibility of the candidate and command to ensure that the candidate*s OMPF is up-to-date and any discrepancy impacting the eligibility of the candidate, to include being in the correct competitive group, is identified to Commander, Navy Personnel Command (CNPC) (PERS 802/812) prior to the board convening. 2. Timeline of Events: a. 24 October 2014. CNPC (PERS-802) compiles and submits initial time- in-rate (TIR) eligibility list of candidates to Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center (NETPDTC) (N321). b. 19 November 2014. E8/E9 Examination Status Verification Reports (ESVR) will be accessible by Education Services Officers (ESO) and command designated personnel via NETPDTC's Navy Enlisted Advancement System (NEAS) website, https://neasos.cnet.navy.mil/. The ESVR is the sole source for E7/E8 TIR eligibility verification and will be available as follows: (1) Reserve E8/E9: 20 November 2014 * 22 March 2015 (2) Active E9: 20 November 2014 * 12 April 2015 (3) Active E8: 20 November 2014 * 3 May 2015 c. ESOs and command designated personnel must verify the ESVR for accuracy and re-verify weekly thereafter until the scheduled board convening date, and if necessary, take the following actions per reference (a). (1) Eligible candidates not listed. Mail or send an encrypted e-mail containing a completed Advancement in Rate or Change in Rating worksheet (NETPDTC 1430/3 Rev 06-14) along with a letter of transmittal to NETPDTC (N321). (2) Listed ineligible or not recommended personnel. Submit a message notification to NETPDTC (N321) and info CNPC (PERS-802/812) requesting invalidation of eligibility status and provide explanation for invalidation. Per reference (a), withdrawal of advancement recommendation must be completed and documented prior to message transmission. (3) Candidates validated in wrong competitive category. Submit message notification to CNPC (PERS-802/812) detailing the discrepancy. d. Letter to the board (LTB) deadlines and selection board convening dates are established below. LTBs must be accepted by the CNPC Customer Service Center (CSC) on or before the deadline or it will not be presented to the board. This supersedes reference (a). (1) 9 February 2015: LTB deadline to the Reserve E8/9 selection board. (2) 2 March 2015: FY-16 Reserve E8/E9 selection board convenes. (3) 9 March 2015: LTB deadline to the active-duty E9 selection board. (4) 30 March 2015: FY-16 Active Duty E9 selection board convenes. (5) 30 March 2015: LTB deadline to the active-duty E8 selection board. (6) 20 April 2015: FY-16 Active Duty E8 selection board convenes. 3. Eligibility Criteria: a. Sailors not selected to continue from a Senior Enlisted Continuation Board (SECB) are ineligible for advancement. b. Candidates must meet eligibility requirements outlined in reference (a), by 1 November 2014. c. Candidates who do not have a recommendation for advancement on their most recent chief evaluation shall not be validated. Evaluations that restore a recommendation for advancement must be made available to the selection board prior to the board convening date. d. Terminal eligibility date (TED). The TED for Cycle 225 is 1 October 2015. This date shall be used to compute and determine TIR eligibility per reference (a). e. Commissioning programs. Candidates selected for Seaman to Admiral (STA-21), Medical Enlisted Commissioning Program, and Medical Service Corps In-Service Procurement Program remain eligible for advancement consideration to senior chief and master chief petty officer. Candidates selected to any other officer commissioning programs are ineligible and must be invalidated by their command. f. High year tenure (HYT). Per reference (b), candidates who reach HYT on or after 1 July 2015, or who have received a HYT waiver to remain on active duty (or remain in SELRES status) beyond 1 July 2015 prior to the board convening date are eligible for consideration by the selection board. Candidates with a HYT date prior to 1 July 2015 are not eligible. g. Members who have submitted involuntary Fleet Reserve (FLTRES)/retired list. Voluntary FLTRES are those not mandated by HYT; requests due to HYT are eligible for advancement and selection board consideration provided their HYT date for the present paygrade is 1 July 2015 or later per reference (a). An approved or pending voluntary FLTRES/retirement request must be successfully disapproved, canceled, or modified to an involuntary date prior to the board convening to render a candidate selection board eligible. h. Security clearance requirements. All personnel in certain ratings must maintain continuous security clearance eligibility. A favorable investigation adjudication must be issued from Department of Defense Central Adjudication Facility (DODCAF) or the member*s commanding officer (CO) must grant temporary access, an interim clearance, prior to the first day of the month of the respective boards convening date, to be board eligible. COs must follow procedures in reference (c) to grant interim access. Sailors in the following ratings who do not meet this requirement are ineligible for advancement and will not be considered board eligible: AC, AE, AVCM, AG, AO, ATI, ATO, AWF, AWO, AWR, AWS, AWV, AZ, CTI, CTM, CTN, CTR, CTT, EMCM, EOD, ET, FC, FT, GM, HT, IC, IS, IT, ITS, LN, MA, MC, MN, MT, ND, OS, QM, SB, SO, STG, STS, YN, and all nuclear and submarine ratings. This guidance supersedes reference (a). i. Branch class (BRCL) and special program indicator (SPI) code. The Navy accounting status for BRCL 32 Sailors must be verified via the command's Enlisted Distribution Verification Report (EDVR). Naval Reserve personnel on active duty with a blank SPI Code are in an invalid status that may result in assignment of an incorrect advancement competitive category. Commands must correct the error via the Navy Standard Integrated Personnel System (NSIPS) or the Sailor may seek relief via petitioning the Board for Correction of Naval Records (BCNR). Sailors in this accounting status as of the board convening date will be invalidated. 4. Special requirements for nuclear trained personnel (these requirements must be met prior to the regularly scheduled board convening date): a. To be eligible for advancement to E8, submarine sailors in nuclear ratings must hold a supervisor Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) (3363, 3364, 3365, 3366). Personnel must also hold a nuclear qualified secondary NEC 3302 (engineering department master chief (EDMC)). A NAVPERS 1221/6 requesting a secondary NEC of 3302 must be submitted to OPNAV N133 by 10 April 2015. E-mail the NAVPERS 1221/6 and copy of qualification card to bullnuke(at)navy.mil via Force EDMC. Additional contact information available via http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers- npc/enlisted/community/nuclear/pages/nuclearenlistedprograms.aspx. b. To be eligible for advancement to E8, surface Sailors in nuclear ratings must hold a supervisor NEC (3393, 3394, 3395, 3396). c. To be eligible for advancement to E9, submarine Sailors in nuclear ratings must hold a supervisor NEC (3363, 3364, 3365, 3366). Personnel must also hold a secondary NEC 3302 and have served or be currently serving as an EDMC of a submarine. Acceptable documentation of EDMC service for review by the advancement board includes an evaluation with "EDMC" in Block 29/41 or a letter from the CO via the member providing dates of EDMC service. Sailors without EDMC service documented in their service record must submit documentation with their LTB providing dates of EDMC service. d. To be eligible for advancement to E9, surface Sailors in nuclear ratings must hold a supervisor NEC (3393, 3394, 3395, 3396), and must have served, or be currently serving as, a division leading chief petty officer (DLCPO) of a nuclear division at sea (reactor mechanical, reactor electrical, reactor controls, reactor propulsion, or reactor laboratories), reactor training division officer (RT DIVO) at sea, or leading crew chief (LCC) of a prototype. E8s who are billeted as Reactor Department Master Chief (RDMC) in lieu of DLCPO are also eligible for advancement to E9. Acceptable documentation of DLCPO, RT DIVO, LCC, or RMDC service for review by the advancement board includes an evaluation with DLCPO, RT DIVO, LCC, or RMDC in Block 29/41 or a letter from the CO via the member to the board providing dates of DLCPO, RT DIVO, LCC, or RMDC service. Sailors without DLCPO, RT DIVO, LCC, or RMDC service documented in their service record must submit documentation with their LTB providing dates of DLCPO, RT DIVO, LCC, or RMDC service. 5. Special requirements for Navy Diver (ND) personnel. To be eligible for advancement to E8, Sailors must hold the first class diver NEC (5342) or the master diver NEC (5341) prior to the regularly scheduled board convening date. To be eligible for advancement to E9, Sailors must hold the master diver NEC (5341) prior to the regularly scheduled board convening date. 6. Special requirements for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) personnel. To be eligible for advancement to E8 and E9, Sailors must hold the master EOD technician NEC (5337) prior to the regularly scheduled board convening date. 7. The competitive groups for selected communities are as follows: a. Naval Aircrewmen (AW) Group 1 - AWV (NEC) 8228, 8229, 8262, 8263, 8265, 8284, 9401, 9402 Group 2 - AWF (NEC) 8206, 8208, 8209, 8220, 8227, 8235, 8241, 8245, 8250, 8251, 8252, 8278, 8279, 8289 Group 3 - AWO (NEC) 7835, 7841, 7846, 7861 Group 4 - AWS (NEC) 7805, 7807, 7885, 7886 Group 5 - AWR (NEC) 7873, 7876, 7875 (7835 - SELRES Only) b. Electrician's Mate (EM) Group 1 - Nuclear (Submarine) Group 2 - Nuclear (Surface) Group 3 - All Others c. Electronics Technician (ET) Group 1 - Submarine (Non-Nuclear NAV) Group 2 - Submarine (Non-Nuclear COM) Group 3 - Submarine (Nuclear) Group 4 - Surface (Nuclear) Group 5 - Surface (Others) d. Fire Controlman (FC) Group 1 - All Others Group 2 - AEGIS e. Machinist's Mate (MM) Group 1 - Submarine (Non-Nuclear AUX) Group 2 - Submarine (Non-Nuclear WEPS) Group 3 - Nuclear (Submarine) Group 4 - Nuclear (Surface) Group 5 - All Others f. Cryptologic Technician (Interpretive) Group 1 * Middle East and North Africa Group 2 * East and Far East Asia Group 3 * Latin and South America Group 4 * Eastern Europe g. Navy Career Counselor (NC) Group 1 - Career Recruiter Force Group 2 - Fleet h. Culinary Specialist (CS), Logistics Specialist (LS), Yeoman (YN) Group 1 - Submarine Group 2 - All Others i. Musician (MU) Group 1 - Special Band Group 2 - Fleet Band 8. Communication with the selection board. Candidates' LTB, which may be mailed or e-mailed (encrypted) to the addresses below, provides candidates the opportunity to submit any missing documents from the sections of their records that are viewed by the selection boards. Candidates are encouraged to review reference (a), chapter 12 and reference (d), concerning selection board record review and guidance for LTB submission. Further LTB submission guidance is as follows: a. Information received that is not under the candidate*s LTB (third party correspondence) or not received by the NPC CSC by the established deadline will not be presented to the board. The time and date LTBs are received in the NPC CSC inbox (Central Standard Time (CST)) is the time and date used for deadline verification. b. Candidates must verify that the correct board number (see below) is on their LTB to ensure it appears before the proper board. c. Full name and full SSN must be affixed and legible on all documents submitted. d. Selection board mailing addresses. Use of special handling mail (certified or registered) is not advised due to significant delays in handling. (1) SELRES/Mobilized IRR E8/9 Board: Navy Personnel Command Customer Service Center President FY-16 Reserve Enlisted Selection Board #205 5720 Integrity Drive Millington, TN 38055-6300 (2) FTS E8/9 board: Navy Personnel Command Customer Service Center President FY-16 Reserve Enlisted Selection Board #206 5720 Integrity Drive Millington, TN 38055-6300 (3) Active E9 board: Navy Personnel Command Customer Service Center President FY-16 Active Enlisted Selection Board #210 5720 Integrity Drive Millington, TN 38055-6300 (4) Active E8 board: Navy Personnel Command Customer Service Center President FY-16 Active Enlisted Selection Board #235 5720 Integrity Drive Millington, TN 38055-6300 e. E-mail address for submitting a LTB is cscselboard(at)navy.mil. E- mailed LTBs must be encrypted to protect personally identifiable information (PII). Trouble with file encryption or certificate issues does not justify a late LTB. If the candidate is unable to send the e-mail encrypted to cscselboard(at)navy.mil, candidates may utilize the Safe Access File Exchange (SAFE) website at https://safe.amrdec.army.mil/safe/ to transmit their LTB to cscselboard(at)navy.mil. f. Candidates are authorized to submit more than one LTB, vice waiting until the deadline to submit one all-inclusive LTB. LTBs forwarded for consideration by the selection boards will not be added to the candidate*s OMPF, except for award citations accurately reflected in the Navy Department Awards Services (NDAWS) website, per reference (e). 9. Additional information regarding this cycle will be posted at http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/boards/reserveenlisted/pages/ scpomcposelectionboards.aspx, http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers- npc/boards/activedutyenlisted/pages/scposelectionboards.aspx, or http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/boards/activedutyenlisted/ pages/mcposelectionboards.aspx. Record review and correspondence submission guidance is provided at http://www.public.navy.mil/ bupers- npc/boards/activedutyenlisted/pages/generalinformation.aspx. 10. Official results will be announced via NAVADMIN message. 11. For additional information, contact the NPC CSC at 1-866-U-ASK-NPC (1- 866-827-5672) or via e-mail at cscmailbox(at)navy.mil. 12. This message will remain in effect until superseded or canceled, whichever comes first. 13 Released by Vice Admiral W. F. Moran, N1.// BT #2740 NNNN