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Hundreds of thousands of U.S. service members remain unvaccinated or only partially vaccinated against the coronavirus as the Pentagon's first compliance deadlines near, with lopsided rates across the individual services and a spike in deaths among military reservists illustrating how political division over the shots has seeped into a nonpartisan force with unambiguous orders. Overall, the military's vaccination rate has climbed since August, when Defense Department leaders, acting on a directive from President Joe Biden, informed the nation's 2.1 million troops that immunization would become mandatory, exemptions would be rare and those who refuse would be punished. Yet troops' response has been scattershot, according to data assessed by The Washington Post.

PENSACOLA, Fla. - The Navy League and Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) announced the requirements on Oct. 8, 2021 for applications for the Alaska Sea Services Scholarships for academic year 2022-2023. The program awards up to four $1,000 scholarships annually for undergraduate education to dependent children and spouses of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard personnel who legally claim Alaska as their state of residence. The scholarships are possible through funds raised by Alaskan citizens for a war bond as a gift to USS Juneau (CL 52) during World War II. After the sinking of Juneau, the governor of the territory of Alaska and the secretary of the Navy agreed to keep the bond monies on deposit until an appropriate application was found. In 1986, the Navy established the Alaska Sea Services fund. “Alaskan citizens originally raised these funds for the Atlanta-class light cruiser USS Juneau,” said Ryan Donaldson, Navy League executive vice president for business operations. “Juneau was integral to the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands but was later sunk at the Battle of Guadalcanal prior to the gift being presented to her crew. Honoring the loss of Juneau’s crew could not be better achieved than through supporting the education of students within her sponsoring state.” Applicants must be the child or spouse of a legal resident of the state of Alaska who is, or was at the time of death or designation as missing-in-action, a Regular or Reserve U.S. Navy, Marine Corps or Coast Guard member on active duty, inactive duty or retired with or without pay. The Navy League will screen all applications and submit their recommendations to NETC for final consideration and awarding. Selection criteria includes academic proficiency, character, leadership ability, community involvement and financial need. “It is an honor to be a part of the Alaska Sea Services Scholarship,” said Al Sharlow, NETC’s advanced education program coordinator. “We look forward to any opportunity to provide educational opportunities to develop the future of our great nation.” Students must provide proof of acceptance at an accredited college or university for full-time undergraduate study toward a bachelor’s degree. An individual cannot receive more than two scholarship awards during the pursuit of a four-year degree. The Navy League is accepting scholarship applications from Oct. 11, 2021 to March 11, 2022. For additional information and a link to apply for the Alaska Sea Services Scholarship, visit https://www.navyleague.org/programs/scholarships or email scholarships@navyleaque.org

UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 081819Z OCT 21 MID600051024044U FM CNO WASHINGTON DC TO NAVADMIN INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS NAVADMIN 222/21 PASS TO OFFICE CODES: FM CNO WASHINGTON DC//N7// INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC//N7// MSGID/GENADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N71/OCT// SUBJ/ANNOUNCEMENT OF PHASE II OF THE US NAVAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE PILOT PROGRAM// REF/A/MSG/SECNAV/171700ZJAN20// NARR/REF A IS ALNAV 009/20, SECNAV VECTOR 7.// POC/US NAVAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE/UNIT: ADMISSIONS/TEL: (703) 784-4018// POC/A.GARRETT/CIV/UNIT: /TEL: (703) 784-4018// RMKS/1. Reference (a) directed the formation of the first cohort of Navy and Marine Corps students for enrollment in the United States Naval Community College (USNCC) Pilot program. This NAVADMIN announces phase two of the US Naval Community College (USNCC) pilot program (Pilot 2). The USNCC offers enlisted Sailors and Marines the opportunity to participate in world-class, naval relevant education programs. No tuition fees, mandatory course fees, or other course material costs are incurred by either participating students or parent commands. The FY-22 degree program application window opened on 1 Oct 2021 and will close on 31 Oct 2021. Future application windows will be published on the USNCC website (https://www.usncc.edu/) and on USNCC social media sites. 2. Background: a. Starting in FY22, Pilot 2 offers seven professional concentration areas and the USNCC Naval Studies Certificate. USNCC will continue to evaluate academic programs, learning delivery systems, and student performance while providing students the opportunity to complete online college courses and earn college degrees. The seven professional concentration areas are: (1) Military Studies (2) Cyber Security and Network Administration (3) Nuclear Engineering Technology (4) Data Analytics (5) Organizational Leadership (6) Maritime Logistics (7) Aviation Maintenance Technology b. The USNCC Naval Studies Certificate includes the following five USNCC delivered courses that are incorporated into all USNCC degree programs: (1) Leadership and Ethics (2) Modern Naval History (3) Naval Force Design and Concepts (4) Military-Civil Organization (5) Introduction to the Geopolitical Environment c. Classes will be taught online in an 8 to 15 week course format, depending on the participating colleges schedules and the complexity of the course material. 3. Criteria: a. The USNCC will accept program applications from all enlisted Sailors and Marines subject to the following eligibility preferences: (1) Applicants must be active duty enlisted members of the sea services (Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard) in the paygrades of E-1 through E9. First-term service members will be prioritized. All applicants must be available to participate in the college courses online. (2) Applicants must not have previously earned an associate or higher academic degree except as noted in paragraph (3). (3) Students that have previously earned a college degree may apply for the USNCC Naval Studies Certificate. b. Applications of qualified individuals require Commanding Officers (or designated command representative) endorsement. 4. Application Process: More information is available and applications must be submitted via the USNCC website at (https://www.usncc.edu/). The initial application submission period will remain open until 31 October 2021. 5. Selection Notifications: The USNCC will contact accepted applicants regarding their selection status via email in November 2021, with courses to begin in January 2022. 6. The USNCC primary point of contact is Mr. Alphonso Garrett, USNCC Director of Enrollment, at admissions@usncc.usmcu.edu. 7. Request widest dissemination of the above information. Regional and installation Education Specialists are requested to pass this information to all interested personnel at home stations. 8. This message will remain in effect until 30 Sep 2023 or until superseded. 9. Released by VADM J. W. Hughes, Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Warfighting Development, N7, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations// BT #0001 NNNN UNCLASSIFIED//

Membership list is out and is posted with the quotas, results and other good stuff...

The Biden administration is temporarily relaxing the rules for a student loan forgiveness program that has been criticized for its notoriously complex requirements — a change that could offer debt relief to thousands of military members, teachers, social workers and other public servants. The Education Department said Wednesday it will drop some of the toughest requirements around Public Service Loan Forgiveness, a program that was launched in 2007 to steer more college graduates into public service but, since then, has helped just 5,500 borrowers get their loans erased.

Senior enlisted Sailors are needed to step up and fill critical billets both at sea and ashore, where their training, leadership and experience are needed right now. This need means many senior Sailors will find themselves packing their seabags very soon to help the Navy raise its warfighting readiness across the fleet. For senior Sailors, now’s the time to act to ensure you have a voice in the process. Announced Sept. 9 in NAVADMIN 202/21, the Navy is now evaluating roughly 2,500 E8 and E9 Sailors currently who are “misaligned” with the billet they are filling. This includes those above their billet paygrade – an E9 in an E8 billet – or those aligned to unfunded billet requirements. The plan is to move misaligned Sailors into billets across the fleet, matching their paygrade expertise and leadership abilities while improving the senior enlisted fit to billets on the deckplates. “This is completely geared toward ensuring our force is ready to fight by placing the right leaders in the right jobs,” said Navy Personnel Command (NPC) Force Master Chief Chris Detje. “Optimization is not simply looking at our newly initiated chiefs and moving those in excess. We are examining operational gaps and we are going to place the right leaders in those jobs, based on paygrade alignment.” Wasting no time, personnel officials plan to begin this migration with transfers early in Fiscal Year 2022. Underway is a billet scrub that will locate all misaligned senior enlisted Sailors around the fleet and identifying the critical billets where their skills are needed. Navy Personnel Command is not doing this alone, but with the full help and support of the fleet commanders. Also working hard on the issue are personnel staffs from the FleetReadiness Integrators, Type Commanders and Budget Submitting Offices. “Sailors who know they’re in a misaligned status can step up and take a role in determining where they will go,” Detje said.” They can also step up and be a part of the process. “If a Sailor knows they are in a misaligned billet, they need to start preparing as if they know they are headed back to sea or an operationally critical shore billet.,” he said. “A proactive approach would be to have that conversation at home now so that no one is surprised around the beginning of the new year – we will be placing our senior and master chiefs where they are needed.” Navy chief petty officers have traditionally been considered the “Backbone of the Fleet.” Command Master Chief (SW/AW) Bill Houlihan, senior enlisted Sailor in NPC’s Career Management Department (PERS-4) said there is a risk of those words ringing hollow if, during the Strategic Competition, the Navy isn’t placing its most experienced leaders in the jobs they are needed most. “We, as a Mess, can’t rally around the CPO Creed and refuse to acknowledge one of the most important parts of it. More is expected of our senior enlisted leaders. More is demanded, by our Navy and our Sailors,” he said “There are gaps at sea and jobs billeted for master chiefs and senior chiefs currently being filled by chiefs or first class petty officers. Technical and institutional expertise is one of our CPO guiding principles -- we need that expertise at sea where it belongs – and being provided by leaders earmarked for those jobs.” For more details or to register for the manning summit, read NAVADMIN 202/21 at www.mynavyhr.navy.mil

WASHINGTON — All Defense Department civilian employees must be fully vaccinated against the coronavirus by Nov. 22, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks said in a memorandum issued Monday. While seven weeks remain until the deadline, Defense Department employees only have until Nov. 8 to receive their final shots. The Pentagon does not consider a person fully vaccinated until two weeks after the last shot in the series is administered.

UNCLASSIFIED// ROUTINE R 042004Z OCT 21 MID200001196248U FM CNO WASHINGTON DC TO NAVADMIN INFO CNO WASHINGTON DC BT UNCLAS NAVADMIN 217/21 MSGID/GENADMIN/CNO WASHINGTON DC/N1/OCT// SUBJ/FY-23 ACTIVE-DUTY NAVY AND NAVY RESERVE E9/ E8, AND E7 SELECTION BOARD MEMBERSHIP NOMINATIONS// REF/A/DOC/BUPERS/29APR20// AMPN/REF A IS BUPERSINST 1401.5C, SUPPLEMENTAL GUIDANCE FOR U.S. NAVY SELECTION BOARDS.// RMKS/1. This NAVADMIN announces the solicitation of enlisted selection board participants for the FY-23 Active-Duty Navy and Navy Reserve Master Chief, Senior Chief and Chief Petty Officer Selection Boards. The experience gained from exposure to the selection board process is beneficial to all senior enlisted leaders. Every master chief petty officer, not otherwise restricted from participating in an enlisted selection board, is strongly encouraged to serve as a member on a FY-23 enlisted selection board. In order to ensure our board membership requirements are met, immediate superior in command and/or type commander leadership is encouraged to seek out the best board member candidates within your purview and direct them to submit applications for the FY-23 enlisted selection boards. 2. FY-23 enlisted board schedule (recorders report one week early for training): a. Reserve/FTS E9/E8 (combined): 7 through 18 March 2022 b. Active-Duty E9/E8 (combined): 28 March through 22 April 2022 c. Reserve/FTS E7: 6 through 17 June 2022 d. Active-Duty E7: 5 through 29 July 2022 Please note, the Active E-9/E-8 and the Active E-7 memberships will be conducted in three phases. Applicants will only need to participate during the phase their rates are considered. Phases will be announced at a later date. 3. Due dates for member and recorder applications to be received by PERS-805: a. Reserve/FTS E9/E8 (combined): 6 December 2021 b. Active-Duty E9/E8(combined): 7 January 2022 c. Reserve/FTS E7: 7 March 2022 d. Active-Duty E7: 4 April 2022 4. Prior to submitting an application, review reference (a) which can be found at: a. Active: https://www.mnp.navy.mil/group/advancement-and- promotion/active-duty-enlisted b. Reserve: https://www.mnp.navy.mil/group/advancement-and- promotion/reserve-officer 5. In addition to membership criteria contained in reference (a) and on the application form (NAVPERS 1400/2), the following also applies to selection board nominees: a. Must not have a relative or personal relationship defined in reference (a) serving on the same board in any capacity. b. All Navy relatives (active-duty or reserve) must be listed on the application form along with their rank/rate, even if not board eligible. c. Must not have been a member of the same board in the previous year. d. Must not be the subject of an investigation of any kind. e. If under care for any severe medical issues, the member shall consult with a treating physician regarding the possibility of travel in the time frame indicated. The medical provider is not required to endorse the members application. 6. Additional information pertaining to selection board membership: a. Frocked master chiefs may participate as selection board members and are encouraged to apply. b. In select circumstances, Navy Personnel Command (NPC) may provide permanent change of station (PCS) order modifications if an applicant with PCS orders is selected to serve on an enlisted selection board. Selected board members should contact Selection Board Membership (PERS-805) at (901)874-3185/DSN 882 or via e-mail at pers-805.fct(at)navy.mil, if this applies. Do not contact your detailer directly as they may be eligible before the board. c. Sailors desiring to sit on a selection board who are attached to deployed units will not normally be approved. In rare circumstances and driven by needs of the board, concurrence on the application from a fleet master chief is required. Applicants who PCS to a deployable unit after having submitted an application should notify PERS-805. If the unit is due to deploy during or close to the board date, applicants should request that their application be pulled. d. Active-duty and reserve component master chiefs are encouraged to apply for any of the above boards. There are no restrictions preventing a Sailor of one component from serving on a board of the other. e. Senior chief petty officers and chief petty officers (to include frocked) may serve as recorders on any of the above boards for which they are not eligible. f. Senior chief petty officers may apply to be a board member on only E7 boards. g. Petty officers (E6 and below) may not serve on the boards in any capacity. h. Recorders must be stationed CONUS, no exceptions. 7. The application form (NAVPERS 1400/2) can be downloaded from: a. Active: https://www.mnp.navy.mil/group/advancement-and- promotion/active-duty-enlisted b. Reserve: https://www.mnp.navy.mil/group/advancement-and- promotion/reserve-officer 8. The signed application must be endorsed by the members commanding officer (CO) and forwarded directly to their cognizant force/fleet master chief (FORCM/FLTCM). The FORCM/FLTCM will forward endorsed applications to PERS- 805 via e-mail at pers-805.fct(at)navy.mil or will return the endorsed applications to the member for submission. In circumstances where the applicant is assigned to a joint command or otherwise does not have a FORCM/FLTCM, the application should be sent to PERS-805 by the commands senior enlisted leader (SEL), provided the SEL is not eligible for advancement on the board for which the applicant is submitting. If you are unsure of your circumstance, please contact PERS-805. 9. Do not use request chits and do not forward applications through your commands administrative support personnel, including those of the command master chief (CMC), CO or those of your FORCM/FLTCM. This will compromise board membership and invalidate your application. Applications go directly to the CMC. Forms received from, or routed through, individuals other than the applicant or the FORCM/FLTCM, except as specified in the previous paragraph, will not be considered. 10. Board membership will be held in the strictest confidence. Once an application is submitted, a policy of non-disclosure has been ordered by Deputy Chief of Navy Personnel (DCNP). Do not discuss applications or selection, if chosen to serve on a board, with anyone other than the CO, reporting senior, CMC, chief of the boat, cognizant FORCM/FLTCM or board support personnel at NPC. It is appropriate for a CMC to be told by a member in the command of that members board service. However, the CMC may not disclose their own service on a board to anyone other than the CO or next echelon ISIC. Failure to adhere to this policy is a direct violation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and will result in removal from the board and possible administrative or disciplinary action by DCNP. 11. Careful consideration should be given to a nominees application and availability to serve as a selection board member. CO concurrence is required. Do not recommend personnel that are under an investigation of any kind or those with severe medical issues. If the CO initiates or becomes aware of an investigation after the initial nomination is submitted, notify the points of contact below immediately. COs, CMCs and applicants should understand that once selected, the member is under official orders to the board and requests for removal from board duties will not be granted except in extreme cases as specified in reference (a). 12. Points of contact: a. Enlisted Board Membership Clerk at (901) 874-3185/DSN 882 b. Membership Branch Head at (901) 874-2209/DSN 882 c. pers-805.fct(at)navy.mil 13. Released by Vice Admiral John B. Nowell, Jr, N1.// BT #0001 NNNN UNCLASSIFIED//

Love it! Study early, check your records, see if you can hook up with board members, etc.!

No public version of the NAVADMIN yet.

Any admins who can get a public copy?

FY22 CPO Selection Board Results Selectees: NAVADMIN 218/21 Precept Convening Order Quotas Membership Announcement: NAVADMIN 50/21 Congratulations!

For spouses and those new to the routine, Sailors are still being notified by TRIAD. 24 hrs later, the public version of the FY-22 Chief's results will be released via a NAVADMIN and Sailors will also be able to view their results in BOL.

Is there an admin that can verify if Triad even has the results?

I really think something should have happened by now.

Has anyone been contacted?

Lol, well right now only members can read that post. Guests are probably trying to figure out why they can't see the Chief's forum.

Easy on the refresh folks, it's killing the forum. For now I made this thread viewable to members only because too many people are hitting refresh.

As usual, if someone gets word, please post.

Alrighty, we need more lurkers to sign up and throw their 2 cents worth while we wait...

I tried looking for that post which should be in one of the prior board forums here but I couldn't find it. So don't quote me on that but I'm glad you brought it up again.

That's an on-and-off topic that has gone on for years here on this forum. I believe it was debunked years ago and went into hibernation only to resurface again in this thread. Unfortunately I can't remember what was said but it was a salty ol' Chief in the know.

YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan - U.S. sailors and Japanese security personnel checked out new 9 mm handguns at this base south of Tokyo on Friday morning, ending nearly four decades of service with Beretta M9 pistols. As part of a servicewide transition, security officers have been training with the SIG Sauer M18 pistol, which is replacing the M9. The Navy adopted the M9 in 1985, according to Yokosuka’s head of security, Lt. Cmdr. Roel Rosalez.

BOARD LIFE: ENLISTED Boards Pt. II