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Re-Enlistment Rules Benefit Fleet, Readiness
MILLINGTON, Tenn. (NNS) -- Two new algorithms were developed for the Perform-to-Serve/Fleet Rating Identification Engine (PTS/Fleet RIDE) system and activated Oct. 1, to better identify top-performing Sailors.
The new algorithms benefit Sailors by including factors that distinguish them from their peers.
"These algorithms were built from fleet input," said Joe Kelly, PTS program manager. "One is specifically for in-rate applications, and the other is for rating-conversion requests. Both algorithms were created with specific factors that better align the application with the Sailor's desires."
The algorithm ranks Sailors using the following performance indicators in order of priority:
* Highest Pay Grade - Senior pay grades will rank highest in the system.
* Selected-Not Yet Advanced - Frocked Sailors rank higher than those not yet picked for advancement.
* Average Ranking of Five Most Recent Evaluations - Early Promote, Must Promote, and Promotable have numeric values of 5, 4, and 3, respectively. This is used instead of calculating trait averages.
* Critical Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) - Critical NECs rank higher than non-critical NECs (The conversion algorithm substitutes Fleet RIDE scores for critical NECs).
* Fleet RIDE/Rank Score - Provides an indicator of potential success in the rating requested; largely based on a Sailor's ASVAB score (This applies to a conversion algorithm only).
* Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) Results - PFAs are calculated based on the number of failures within the past four-year period. Only physically ready Sailors can reenlist.
* Proximity to End-of-Obligated-Service (EAOS) - Sailors closer to their EAOS rank higher in PTS. This indicator would be the tie-breaker between otherwise equally qualified Sailors.
The new PTS/Fleet RIDE system includes the enlisted community managers (ECM) in the selection process by giving them the ability to review the algorithm results for content and accuracy. The Head ECM can then review all approved and denied quotas, forwarded from the ECMs, to ensure their list complies with end-strength goals set forth by the chief of naval personnel, resulting in better program oversight and management.
Another improvement in PTS is the shift to year group management, vice zones.
"Year group management is advantageous for several reasons," said Capt. Hank Roux, head enlisted community manager. "It now compares Sailors with their contemporaries, Sailors who are in the same rating and entered the Navy in the same fiscal year. The pre-October legacy system compared those at extreme ends of each zone against each other."
For example, a hospital corpsman with four years of service no longer has to compete against a corpsman with six years.
"We are constantly reviewing our processes to develop modifications that will provide the fleet with the best system to evaluate our Sailors for continued service," said Mike Dawson, enlisted community manager deputy.
For more PTS/Fleet RIDE algorithm information, read NAVADMIN 352/10 or contact the Navy Personnel Command Customer Service Center at 1-866-U-ASK-NPC or via e-mail at CSCMailbox@navy.mil.
For more news from Navy Personnel Command, visit www.navy.mil/local/npc/.
So if those who are closer to their EAOS are ranked higher, how does that work out for those who are only going through PTS in order to transfer to their next duty station? Does that mean if my husband is ranked the same (according to the Fleet Ride system) as someone who is going through PTS to reenlist, he will get looked over or possibly denied because he's only doing this so that he can move on to his next command? The odds are stacked against him from the start. Hardly seems fair.
You know, more should be done to chop the dead weight at the top. For example, how about chief petty officers who shame the community by dodging out of sea duty for 7-10 years due to unproven kidney stones. Its amazing these guys can travel for tech assists to exotic locations, but when sea duty comes up or an Individual augmentee (IA) billet, they get a mysterious case of kidney stones that miraculously disappears after continous shore duty orders are cut,or someone else goes IA.
What are NECs?
NEC codes identify a non-rating wide skill, knowledge, aptitude or qualification that must be documented to identify both people and billets for management purposes. Additionally, an NEC can be used to identify special circumstances or situations. For more information, see the Navy Enlisted Manpower and Personnel Classifications and Occupational Standards Manual section on NECs at http://www.npc.navy.mil/ReferenceLibrary/NECOS/NEOCSVol2/chapter1.htm.
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My husband has served more than eight years now, not as long as some, but long enough to know he has been more than eligible to make rank to E-6. However has not been able to do so. Yet they give him an ultimatum that if he doesn't pass to E-6 within a certain amount of time he will have to get out of the Navy. He has slaved and given up his life to do for his country, just like the rest, but because he missed by a few points, it's not good enough. So he re-enlists, but you only allow him three years. I'm confused.