Navy shifts to time-in-service advancement for E-1 to E-4 sailors
Sailors will now promote to E-4 after 30 months in service.
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Sailors will now promote to E-4 after 30 months in service.
Military.com spoke to the Chief of Navy Personnel, Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman, and his senior enlisted counterpart Fleet Master Chief Delbert Terrell.
The Navy’s struggle to get sailors their retirement and separation paperwork on time goes back to at least last summer.
The move is one of several that the Navy's leaders have made to help stem the challenges the service is facing in an exceptionally challenging recruiting environment.
This story has been updated to correct that the screening board creates the list of eligible E-8 sailors. Senior enlisted sailors will now advance to new positions through a billet-based promotion system, the Navy announced Tuesday. The service introduced its pilot for the senior enlisted marketplace, a sister project to the detailing marketplace assignment policy, […]