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[Navynews]

With the discontinued use of the Field Service Record many Sailors have questions as to how their enlisted qualifications, awards and schools are entered into their record and forwarded to their Official Military Personnel File (OMPF) in Millington.

Before the Navy went to the Electronic Service Record (ESR) we pulled a service record out of a file cabinet, typed in a qualification or award or entered a course on the page 4 and shoved it back in the drawer.
When the Sailor reenlisted, service record pages were closed out and sent to PERS with the contract for inclusion into the OMPF, and new pages were opened and the record was again shoved back into the drawer. Today, instead of typing entries on a service record page, they are entered into ESR and held on a server. And like before, when the Sailor reenlists, the NAVPERS 1070/880 and 881 are sent to PERS with the contract for inclusion into the OMPF.

If a board eligible candidate wants items to be considered that are not in their OMPF but are in their ESR, they print them out and send them with their letter to the board in the same manner as before ESR. So in all actuality, the only thing that has changed is that file cabinet was replaced with a terminal and server.