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Let’s be clear about this…”working as expected” if you’ve spent maybe 50 years watching how ‘well’ Army personnel systems work. Working well from an objective, “gets the job done efficiently and well in a timely manner version of ‘well’?” Uh, no, not so much.<\/p>\n
The outage, which is preventing the Army from issuing DD-214 discharge forms or processing retirement requests for approximately 4,000 troops, is due to \u201cdata processing issues,\u201d according to the spokesperson for the service\u2019s personnel directorate, Lt. Col. Joseph Payton.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe anticipate (the Transition Processing System) to be fully functional within a week,\u201d the spokesperson added. \u201cOnce it\u2019s up and running, we will prioritize processing [discharge forms] for our transitioning Soldiers who have been impacted.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
How nice, the Army has caught up to the Navy’s inability to issues DD-214s.<\/p>\n
\nThe outage comes amid the service\u2019s bumpy implementation of its new human resources platform, the Integrated Personnel and Pay System-Army, which began in December after more than a year of delays<\/a> attributed to feared data issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s the second significant hiccup associated with the platform\u2019s launch \u2014 around 25,000 beneficiaries briefly lost their TRICARE health insurance<\/a> last week due to an error transmitting data to a benefits eligibility system. Wormuth acknowledged the TRICARE lapse Tuesday evening but highlighted the speed with which it was resolved.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wouldn\u2019t have reached out to [Army Times] if the Army had just acknowledged it and just said, \u2018Hey, these are the issues,\u2019\u201d the officer said. \u201cIt\u2019s almost like they\u2019re fearful to acknowledge their mistakes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Army Times<\/a><\/p>\n
That last quote was from an officer trying to transition out. I am absolutely sure none of this impacts recruiting issues. At all. New recruits don’t think about getting out, or taking care of their families, do they? That’s only the older, seasoned (read: “more disposable”) soldiers.<\/p>\n
BUT: The good news – football playoffs are available on AFN world wide. They at least made the important stuff happen, right?<\/p>\n
\u201cThe NFL post-season was made available to us on AFN,\u201d said Kim Antos, AFN\u2019s chief of digital platforms. \u201cGaining those NFL rights to the post-season was an amazing opportunity and we were able to offer that first weekend of postseason playoff games, as video on demand content.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Army Times II<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"