Stabilizing the Force 21st Navy Counselors Association

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Stabilizing the Force21st Navy Counselors
Association
FLTCM(SS/AW/SW/PJ) Mike McCalipFleet Master
Chief Navy Total Force (Manpower, Personnel,
Training and Education) 18 June 2009
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Guiding Principles

• Retain our best Sailors with the right skill mix
• Target incentives to critical skills ratings
• Keep a balanced force seniority, experience,
  and skill sets matched to requirements
• Focus on performance retain and safeguard
  careers of top performers
• Continue to attract and recruit our Nation's
  brightest
• Continue our efforts as a "Top 50" Company
  remain brilliant at the basics
• Continue to use FIT as our primary metric
• Stability and predictability

Balanced force seniority, experience, and skills
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Reenlistment vs Unemployment
There is a moderate to strong positive
correlation between unemployment rate and
reenlistment rates
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Performance-Based Board for Continuation of
Enlisted Personnel with Greater than 20 Years
Active Service

• Convenes 21 Sep 09
• Active/FTS E7-E9 Sailors with at least 20 years
  of service and 3 years time-in-rate as of 1 Sep
  09.
• Supports Navys effort to
• stabilize and shape the force
• ensure continued professional growth
  opportunities
• retain our top performers in our most demanding
  billets
• Focused exclusively on Sailors performance
  there are absolutely no quotas or expected
  percentages!

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Performance Criteria

• Documented misconduct and substandard performance
  is primary reason a Chief Petty Officer is not
  continued.
• Attributes that may not meet performance
  requirements (NAVADMIN 096/09) not all
  inclusive
• Documented substandard performance of duty
  (includes significant problems or progressing
  promotion recommendation)
• Declining performance with the same reporting
  senior in same paygrade
• Failure to maintain physical fitness assessment
  (PFA) standards
• Detachment for cause per Milpersman 161-010
• Removal of security clearance when required by
  rating
• Documented military/civilian conviction or NJP
• Documented administrative/personnel action for
  misconduct

Selections focused on non-due course Sailors
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Board Communication

• Eligible members are responsible for ensuring
  their record is correct and up to date.
• Communication to the board only from individual
  members no third party correspondence.
• Packages will only consist of missing documents
  that will be viewed by the board (evals, quals,
  awards).
• Key dates
• 17 Aug 09 communication to the board must be
  postmarked by this date
• 1 Sep 09 last day for board correspondence via
  message by the command

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Overseas Tour Exemption

• Sailors with orders to, or serving in the first
  two years of, an overseas/DOD area tour are
  exempt.
• Overseas definition (for board purposes) Type
  3, 4, or 6 duty locations outside the 50 United
  States and District of Columbia
• Back-to-back overseas tours not exempt
• Only personnel serving in first two years of
  first overseas tour are exempt
• Consecutive overseas tour (COT)/overseas tour
  extension incentive program (OTEIP) requirements
  does not exempt Sailor for board consideration
• NAVADMIN 096/09

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Notification Procedures

• Nov 2009
• P4 to commanding officers for those not selected
  for continuation
• List of personnel selected for continuation
  published via NAVADMIN
• Notification required back to Pers-8
• Nov 2009 Mar 2010 Transition assistance and
  counseling
• 15 Feb 2010 Fleet reserve/retirement requests
  must be received by this date
• 30 Jun 2010 Last effective date to transition
  to fleet reserve or retire
• Sailors on IA/GSA orders will transfer six months
  following completed tour.

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Fleet Uniform Rollouts
Navy Working Uniform (NWU)
E-1-6 Service Uniform (SU)
Physical Training Uniform (PTU)

• Uniforms replaced Tropical
  Utilities, Working Utilities, Aviation Working
  Green, Wash Khaki, Winter Working Blue,
  Non-tactical use of cammies
• Fleet Intro Date
  a. Senior Leaders 12/08
  b. Fleet 01/09
  
  
  
  
• Fleet Mandatory Date December 2010
• Cost Per Sailor/Set Basic Components
  a. Males 157.85
  b. Females 158.90
• Issues/Remarks
  -Southeast region roll-out underway -
  Northeast Region commence July 09 -Training
  video available on NKO/UMO
  -Uniform regulations
  updated -Quality assurance

• Uniforms replaced
  None
• Fleet Intro Date
  a. Senior Leaders 4/08
  b. Fleet 05/08
  
  
  
  
• Fleet Mandatory Date
  October 2008
• Cost Per Sailor/Set Basic Components
  Unisex 30
• Issues/Remarks
  -Fleet rollout complete
  -Gen II shorts issued at RTC
  available for purchase via Uniform
  Centers -Improved shirt (opacity
  length) available Summer 09
• -Uniform regulations updated
• - High performance PTU available winter
  2009/2010

• Uniforms replaced
  -Summer White
  -Winter Blue
• Fleet Intro Date
  Fleet 07/08
  
  
  
  
• Fleet Mandatory Date July
  2010
• Cost Per Sailor/Set Basic Components
  a. Males 68.95
  b. Females 61.10
• Issues/Remarks
• -Tidewater Region underway
• - Southeast Region commence Oct 09
• -Training video available on NKO/UMO
  -Uniform
  regulations updated
  

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Wear Test Uniforms
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Uniform Board Membership Structure

• PERMANENT STAFF
• Uniform Matters Office (Civilian Head, E9
  Assistant Head and E6 Civilian Clothing Allowance
  Specialist)
• IMPACT REQUIREMENT PANEL
• Uniform Matters Office
• N10 Funding requirements analysis
• Navy Clothing Textile Research Facility
  Research Development
• NEXCOM UPMO Distribution, Retail Execution
• Defense Supply Center Philadelphia Contracting
  execution and production
• SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS
• NEXCOM
• DSCP
• Community Rep Invite (e.g., SEALs, etc.)

• Voting Members
• President (CNP)
• NAVSUP
• N13
• N10
• NECC
• MCPON
• N134 Diversity Rep
• USFF FLTCM
• CPF FLTCM
• NTF FLTCM
• Non-voting Members
• US Naval Academy
• NETC
• NAVRESFOR FORCM
• CNIC FORCM
• PACFLT/LANTFLT O5 Female (Alternate annually)
• PACFLT/LANTFLT E9 Female (Alternate annually)

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