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Voluntold for Special Duties
11 years ago
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It's March! Know what that means?
All qualifying SrA, NCOs and SNCOs are getting ready to be submitted to be voluntold for Special Duty Assignments.
Hopefully your upper-level leadership has been keeping you abreast of the situation if you qualify and are being considered for these positions. If they haven't, then the way it works is this: Your unit breaks down all qualifying rank personnel, eliminates them from consideration based on several factors (bad EPRs, failed PT tests, Arty 15s), then takes who is left, gives them the ole rack and stack treatment, then submits the best of the best of the best for these wonderful Special Duty assignments (MTL, MTI, Recruiter, Tech School instructor, etc).
If you qualify and are being submitted, your command should have informed you by now, as there is paperwork to consider, a list you can select from of which job you'd prefer, and it gives you an opportunity (at least in MY case) to openly discuss your desire to change positions.
Now, there is no promise you'll get it. You could have 20 airmen that qualify, your quota might be for 3 positions, and maybe 1 will get picked up. Last year it was a 1 to 7 ratio.
See...back in the good ole days, such jobs were voluntary. But, due to a lack of interest, it is now a voluntold system. I personally don't agree with it, but that's life.
So be in the lookout. If you're being submitted, you'll probably hear by the end of May if you've been picked up for a special duty.
If you don't qualify or aren't being considered... good for you! Enjoy a bit more stability in these weird times.
~The NCOIC
All qualifying SrA, NCOs and SNCOs are getting ready to be submitted to be voluntold for Special Duty Assignments.
Hopefully your upper-level leadership has been keeping you abreast of the situation if you qualify and are being considered for these positions. If they haven't, then the way it works is this: Your unit breaks down all qualifying rank personnel, eliminates them from consideration based on several factors (bad EPRs, failed PT tests, Arty 15s), then takes who is left, gives them the ole rack and stack treatment, then submits the best of the best of the best for these wonderful Special Duty assignments (MTL, MTI, Recruiter, Tech School instructor, etc).
If you qualify and are being submitted, your command should have informed you by now, as there is paperwork to consider, a list you can select from of which job you'd prefer, and it gives you an opportunity (at least in MY case) to openly discuss your desire to change positions.
Now, there is no promise you'll get it. You could have 20 airmen that qualify, your quota might be for 3 positions, and maybe 1 will get picked up. Last year it was a 1 to 7 ratio.
See...back in the good ole days, such jobs were voluntary. But, due to a lack of interest, it is now a voluntold system. I personally don't agree with it, but that's life.
So be in the lookout. If you're being submitted, you'll probably hear by the end of May if you've been picked up for a special duty.
If you don't qualify or aren't being considered... good for you! Enjoy a bit more stability in these weird times.
~The NCOIC
Atleast thats if I understood how the system is intended to function by the words. This also doesn't mean they will follow along those lines, mind you.
As for EPRs, my application actually said that my last 3 EPRs had to be 5s.