A total of 219 chiefs, senior chiefs and master chiefs will be forced to retire by Dec. 1 of the thousands whose records were reviewed in December for recent problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The retirements were handed out by the fiscal 2016 Senior Enlisted Continuation Board, which met in December to review the service records of 6,683 active duty, full-time support, and r<\/span>Reserve senior enlisted sailors.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Only those already retirement eligible are considered by the board. The 1,516 chiefs, 2,034 senior chiefs, and 2,912 master chiefs reviewed had to have at least 19 years of service and three years time in grade when the board convenedas of the board convening date \u2014 including MCPON get looked at<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n No one is exempt except\u00a0for those who have already declared their retirements and\u00a0as well as <\/span>those who\u2019ve just<\/span> been selected to their current paygrade in the past three years. Even the master chief petty officer of the Navy got a look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The 219 forced retirements constitute a selection rate of 3.328<\/span>\u00a0percent, roughly a percentage point higher than last year when 161 were finally selected from a larger pool of chiefs.\u00a0332 more sailors were considered and 161 selected. The selection of 219 retirements this year, 58 more than last year\u2019s 161, combined with the fact there were 332 fewer eligible chiefs reviewed raised the retirement rate this year to 3.20 percent, nearly a percentage point higher than last year\u2019s 2.30 percent.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Most <\/span>The majority of the increases came in the selected r<\/span>Reserve, where the 69 total retirements at 33 nearly doubled last years total of 36<\/span>. The active-duty count was 141, 21 higher than last year\u2019s 120<\/span>. In the r<\/span>Reserve full-time support community, the force-outs rose from five to nine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The results were available to command leaders for notification on Feb. 3; those screened will be able to check their status on BUPERS Online starting Wednesday. Feb. 10 beginning at 11:00 EST. \u00a0<\/span>On that site, “S” signifies “selected for continued service”; “N” means “not selected for continued service”; and “H” means “not selected for continuation \u2014 in a hold status.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Unlike advancement lists, there won\u2019t be any public release of the names, only the breakdown of the numbers is released<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This is a performance-based board and there are never any quotas,” said Fleet Master Chief (AW\/SW) April Beldo, senior enlisted adviser to the chief of naval personnel, in a Feb. 5 phone interview with Navy Times<\/span>.\u00a0“These chief petty officers have served honorably, they will retire, they are not being separated \u2014 sometimes this comes as a shock because of majority of CPO\u2019<\/span>s love their job and having a positive influence on the sailors they serve.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Active duty and full-time support sailors being retired must transfer to the Fleet Reserve or full retirement by Aug. 31, though an operational waiver,<\/span> approved by the the head of <\/span>Navy Personnel Command can keep them in the fleet until Dec. 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Drilling reservists must transfer to the Retired Reserve by Sept. 1, however these sailors,<\/span> too,<\/span> can get an operational waiver to drill until Dec. 1\u00a0theirs must be approved by the commander of Navy Reserve Forces Command<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The deadline for force-retired sailors to apply for transfer to either <\/span>the Fleet Reserve,\u00a0the Retired Reserve, or to request\u00a0as well as to apply for <\/span>operational waivers and readiness appeals is now March 15, changed from the already passed Jan. 31 date announced in the original NavAdmin last year<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n The board has met every year except for fiscal year <\/span>2014, when a scheduling conflict caused officials to scrap the bard. cancel the panel for the year. <\/span>During those six years of boards<\/span>, the boards have chosen a total of 44,548 records have been reviewed with <\/span>1,761 being selected <\/span>to retire \u2014 a retirement rate of nearly four percent<\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Of those, 1,086 were active-duty, and 69 from the FTS community. A total of 606 selected reservists have been retired as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This year, the board was originally set to start deliberations on Aug. 3, but an “inadvertent email release” of the board’s planned membership, which typically isn’t made public until the board is in session, delayed the proceedings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The rescheduled board convened Dec. 7 and adjourned on Dec. 16. At the time, the Navy\u2019s senior leadership strongly considered mandatory quotas for the board, but then-Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SS\/SW) <\/span>Rick West opposed quotas and argued that the panel should make a pure “quality cut” of the senior enlisted ranks instead<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The board culls the records looking for any incidences of misconduct and as well as documented <\/span>declining performance. If found, the board then examines that sailor’s\u00a0full record and makes a determination as to whether that person\u2019s continuation on active-duty “is in the best interests of the U.S. Navy.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sources tell Navy Times that many sailors with less than perfect records have been continued from each board and is a sign of the fairness of the board process. Those sources were unable to reveal any specifics, however, because the board uses the same rules as advancement boards and all the records of deliberations are sealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Sure this is a tough process for our chief’s mess, but it shows the entire Navy that we are willing to take a hard look at ourselves and if we find shipmates who aren’t abiding by our Navy’s standards, we hold each other accountable,” Beldo said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beldo stressed that a great majority, majority<\/span> \u2014 97 percent this year \u2014 are doing the right things on a daily basis and are being allowed to continue in an active status. But the fact the board even exists and continues to convene each year is a message to even the most junior of sailors.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n “We must be visibly accountable to those we lead and serve and that the standards are applied the same to all, regardless of rank,” she said. “Just having this board sends a message to even our most junior sailors that we are accountable and that we are willing to be open kimono about our conduct with our sailors.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The board scrubbed nearly 7,000 chiefs for conduct and professional problems and identified 219 to early retire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":48695,"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":65,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[12,65],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3087],"class_list":["post-30900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-your-navy"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"64VWMFGWUBHCDCGUPFDTDDAPQE","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-navy\/2016\/02\/10\/navy-board-forces-219-chiefs-into-retirement\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n