The Chief of Naval Personnel announced Dec. 21 that the deadline is near for officers to submit requests for joint experience credit using an exception to policy that allows submissions outside the normally mandated timeline.

As detailed in NAVADMIN 292/15, a special Joint Qualification System (JQS) Experience panel will convene in February to evaluate joint experiences that fall outside the 12-month requirement due to a one-time exception to policy. Until now, the DoD mandated that all requests must come no later than 12 months after the joint tour or experience was finished.

An officer is eligible for joint duty following a tour in a Joint Duty Assignment List (JDAL) position or by accruing points recognized by the panel as providing officers equivalent joint experience.

The panel will examine requests from officers of all services that are O-6 or O-5 and gained joint experience later than Oct. 1, 2010. The panel may not have previously reviewed these requests and anyone not approved will not be able to submit again in the future.

Officers have until Jan. 15 to submitt requests to this special panel. The panel will convene at the same time as the regularly scheduled JQS panel, and submissions to that panel follow the same deadline, but use the 12-month rule.

Officers may submit their joint experiences online through the JQS self-nomination website at https://www.dmds.cosd.mil/appj/jmis/JQSindex

For more information about submissions and due dates visit the NPC website at http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/officer/Detailing/jointofficer/Pages/JQSE-JDASelfNomination.aspx

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