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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSome 4,062 first-class petty officers have been selected to join the goat locker in fiscal 2016.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Staff<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Not far behind their supply shipmates, gas turbine systems technicians (electrical) are also enjoying an two-year run of excellent opportunity to make chief petty officer. This year there are 58 eligible first classes being reviewed by the board, and quotas for 47 of them to move up \u2014 an advancement opportunity of 81.03 percent. Last year’s opportunity was almost identical, was a statistical dead heat in opportunity as <\/span>80.49 percent, as 33 of 41 eligible first classes got anchors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In the most improved category, two aviation ratings are are seeing exponentially better opportunity this year than during last summer’s board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Naval aircrewmen (tactical helicopter) is 17th on the list, with a 34.85 percent shot at advancing, up from just 6.67 percent last year. This year’s there’s quotas for 23 of the 66 eligible first classes as compared to<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Naval aircrewmen (avionics) as well as<\/span> saween<\/span> a meteoric rise in their chance to put on chief’s anchors this year<\/span>. Last year, just two of 61 eligible sailors advanced, or 3.28 percent. This year that opportunity jumped to <\/span>an<\/span> above the Navy-wide average to chance of <\/span>26.76 percent, with 71 of 19 moving up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n That advancement opportunity is particularly <\/span>significant because the rating was hit hard this year by the P-3 Orion to P-8 Poseidon aircraft transition; billets are declining over the next five years in the active force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n Coming in last among the 89 ratings are at the 89th and final slot on the list is <\/span>the cryptologic technician (interpretive) sailors who specialize in eastern European languages and culture. They’ll o<\/span>Only make <\/span>one out <\/span>of 22 eligible first classes will make chief, \u2014 <\/span>a 4.55 percent shot at making chief<\/span>. That’s down from a 36.36 percent chance last year, whenre<\/span> 8 of 22 got the nod to move up<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A similar, but not to far<\/span> fall from grace also <\/span>happened in the machinery repairman rating, where opportunity now sits at 11.67 percent \u2014 with seven quotas and <\/span>60 eligible sailors competing for seven quotas. This is far below down from <\/span>last year, whenre<\/span> 20 of 53 eligibles, or 37.74 percent, joined moved into <\/span>the goat locker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Navy first-classes have almost a 24 percent chance of making chief in fiscal 2016. Selection board convened June 22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":62950,"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-41246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-your-navy"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"LJ2MSD3MNNDBNIBUWLIEMWFPDQ","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-navy\/2015\/06\/22\/e-7-board-24-percent-of-eligible-first-classes-to-advance\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n