{"id":107589,"date":"2020-11-25T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T12:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107589"},"modified":"2020-11-24T21:26:43","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T02:26:43","slug":"deployed-and-pregnant-soldiers-can-receive-temporary-promotions-under-expanded-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107589","title":{"rendered":"Deployed and pregnant soldiers can receive temporary promotions under expanded policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/army-sergeant-insignia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-107590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/army-sergeant-insignia-500x263.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/army-sergeant-insignia-500x263.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/army-sergeant-insignia-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/army-sergeant-insignia-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/army-sergeant-insignia.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff LPH 3 forwarded this article about the change in promotion criteria for deployed or pregnant soldiers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Soldiers deployed to combat or who are pregnant will be able to temporarily promote to the ranks of sergeant through sergeant major before completing the mandatory professional military education courses under an expanded policy that starts Jan. 1.<\/p>\n<p>The policy applies to active duty and reserve soldiers who cannot complete PME, but who are otherwise fully qualified for promotion, including those deployed on a named operation in a hostile fire area or serving on temporary profile due to pregnancy or postpartum.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the policy change, deployed soldiers could obtain an exception that allowed them to temporarily skip PME. That same allowance wasn\u2019t available to pregnant soldiers, though, and now it doesn\u2019t require a soldier to request an exception.<\/p>\n<p>Though the policy impacts only a few hundred deployed troops currently, that could change. An enlisted advisory council helped craft the policy with the understanding that if combat operations were to scale back up, the Army would need a more fluid promotion system, according to Sergeant Major of the Army Michael Grinston.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if we went back to full scale combat in the future? Does our policy [change] allow us to do those promotions more routinely than what we have right now?\u201d Grinston said in a phone interview Monday. \u201cThose are smaller numbers that we have in Iraq and Afghanistan. If we went back to 100,000 deployed \u2026 those numbers for combat promotions would be a lot higher.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is obviously a good thing. Maybe, just maybe, if the PME isn&#8217;t necessary to do your job in a combat environment, then they should look at whether the PME is needed at all.<\/p>\n<p>Source; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2020\/11\/24\/deployed-and-pregnant-soldiers-to-receive-temporary-promotions-under-expanded-policy\/?utm_source=Sailthru&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Army%20DNR%2011.24.20&amp;utm_term=Editorial%20-%20Army%20-%20Daily%20News%20Roundup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Army Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff LPH 3 forwarded this article about the change in promotion criteria for deployed or pregnant &hellip; <a title=\"Deployed and pregnant soldiers can receive temporary promotions under expanded policy\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107589\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Deployed and pregnant soldiers can receive temporary promotions under expanded policy<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":664,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,232,406],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army","category-army-news","category-guest-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/664"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107591,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107589\/revisions\/107591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}