{"id":54624,"date":"2014-08-18T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T19:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=54624"},"modified":"2014-08-18T15:50:04","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T19:50:04","slug":"continuation-boards-coming-again-to-a-navy-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54624","title":{"rendered":"Continuation Boards &#8211; Coming Again to a Navy Near You!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears as if the US Navy &#8211; like the Army &#8211; is about to engage in some &#8220;force shaping&#8221; efforts.\u00a0 The Navy has announced that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2014\/08\/18\/navy-chiefs-continuation-boards\/14223129\/\">almost 8000 Chiefs (E7\/8\/9) will have their records screened for continuation in service, starting on 27 October 2014<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The board will consider both active duty and reserve personnel.\u00a0 Acitve duty personnel who had 19 years of service as of 28 February 2014, and who had 3 years time in grade as of 30 June, will be considered.\u00a0 On the reserve side, only those with 20 &#8220;good&#8221; (qualifying) years for reserve retirement will be considered.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy held similar boards in FY2010-FY2013.\u00a0 There was no board this year (FY2014).\u00a0 But unlike previous years, no career fields will be exempted from consideration.<\/p>\n<p>No quota for eliminations was set.\u00a0 Rather, based on the recommendations of Navy senior enlisted advisers the board will operate on a &#8220;pure quality cut&#8221; basis instead &#8211; whatever that means.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, at least they&#8217;re not forcing folks to retire earlier than 20.\u00a0 Still &#8211; for some, it looks like it will soon be, &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>B<\/strong><\/em><\/span>less <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>O<\/strong><\/em><\/span>ur <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>H<\/strong><\/em><\/span>ome <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>I<\/em><\/strong><\/span>t&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>C<\/strong><\/em><\/span>hristmas <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>A<\/strong><\/em><\/span>lmost&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears as if the US Navy &#8211; like the Army &#8211; is about to engage &hellip; <a title=\"Continuation Boards &#8211; Coming Again to a Navy Near You!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=54624\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continuation Boards &#8211; Coming Again to a Navy Near You!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[189,84,119,206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-cuts","category-military-issues","category-navy","category-reserve-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54624","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\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}