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The Navy has removed the requirement that promotion boards will review full length photos of officers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: U.S. Navy<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Compliance was slow at first, and personnel officials\u00a0as late as 2013\u00a0had to\u00a0remind the officer corps the photos were mandatory and had to be re-submitted within three months of any promotion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Navy eliminated many photo studios on bases worldwide. Officials said it could be taken off-base as long as it was in the required format, with a solid white background. Officials said the photo would be used to assess military bearing, but many officers thought they’d be judged on their looks and physique rather than their accomplishments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There has never been a similar requirement for enlisted to have their image attached to their service records. Several proposals over the years to require photos of chief petty officers have been shot down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cornell said processing updated pics during board season was an administrative pain for NPC, as well as officers required to submit them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Annually, the Navy receives approximately 10,000 officer full-length photographs. Last year the Navy received 1,800 photographs included in letters to the board,” Cornell said. \u00a0“We believe that eliminating the photograph requirement will lessen an administrative burden that does not provide significant value.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n But eliminating them altogether wasn’t an option, she said, stating the images still have a place in officer personnel records because they’re used by detailers to assess an officer’s appearance when evaluating nomination packages for special billets such as embassy duty and Pentagon staffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The full-length photo in khakis is once again out of style.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48302,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[12,65],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3087],"class_list":["post-22470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-your-navy"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"T7MQXZAJQZEUTGQNDR3EBA7MEA","arc_canonical_url":"\/2016\/08\/23\/officer-photos-no-longer-required-for-navy-promotion-boards\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n