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The gap was significant for sailors seeking to move up to E-5, the Navy\u2019s largest paygrade. FDNF sailors looking to move up advanced at a rate that was 9 points higher. About 36 percent of FDNF sailors earned a second chevron in the crow, compared to 27 for the Navy fleetwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For those seeking to move up to E-6, about 14.9 percent of FDNF advanced this year, which is roughly the same rate as the figure for whole Navy, which was 14.3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yet the advantage to being an FDNF sailor appears to increase again for sailors competing in front of E-7 and E-8 boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For sailors aspiring to pin in their anchors, 28.6 percent of eligible sailors in Japan advanced, compared to 23.2 percent Navy-wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And among those looking to move up to E-8, the Japan-based units saw a 19.6 percent advancement rate compared to 13.1 percent Navy-wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The E-9 paygrade is the only one in which the Navy-wide average of advancement was higher. Sailors in 7th Fleet pinned on E-9 at a rate of 15.7 percent compared to 16.3 percent Navy-wide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The E-9 exception, however, could be chalked up as an anomaly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere are low populations for advancement in Japan at the E-9 level,\u201d Derrick said. \u201cOne or two additional advancees could have an impact on the percentage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite the spike in overseas advancement opportunity, sailors in the Navy\u2019s Japan-based 7th Fleet remain under a readiness microscope after a series of 2017 mishaps, including two separate destroyer collisions that left 17 sailors dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In November, three sailors were lost when a C-2A Greyhound \u201ccarrier oboard delivery\u201d aircraft crashed during a routine flight from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in southern Japan to the carrier Ronald in the Philippine Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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