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OFFICER BRANCH NEWS
If you need anything or have a question, feel
Branch Chief Notes by:
LTC William J. L. Gregory free to reach out telephonically or email branch
to assist you with answering any of your career
Finance & Comptroller questions. MAJ Souza, SFC Park, and I are here
Leaders, to help in planning out your career based upon
your goals. Your career manager can
Last time, I mentioned how potentially offer you options that you have not
the FY24 MAJ’s promotion considered or know about.
board would get released
soon – unfortunately, the Company Grade Officers Notes by:
release of the list is MAJ Thomas Souza
delayed until January 2025. CAREER MANAGER NOTE
LTC Gregory
The promotion list will get released and a day The best career manager in the
Army is YOU. Only you know
or two after the ILE list will come out. This list
what is best for you and your
will indicate how the officer will complete
family, and it is your
their ILE course, resident, satellite, or
distance learning. Resident officers will PCS responsibility to manage your
LTC BROWN
to Fort Leavenworth and report in July career. This means ensuring
2025. Satellite & DL officers should reach out your Year Month Available
to me and let me know when you wish to start (YMAV) date is correct to
your course. With your submission, we will support your timeline because
request the course you ask for or get you it determines when you move.
MAJ Souza
enrolled to start the DL version. Please continue to reach out early and often, I
cannot help you if I do not know what you need.
The 25-02 marketplace just closed and HRC is
in the process of reviewing the results. It will The 25-02 one-sided and two-sided markets
take a couple of weeks to finalize everything closed on 26 November. The slating process will
once we are allowed, we will send notification take about six weeks, expect to be notified of
to each office in the marketplace of their your next assignment in January.
assignment and report dates. If there is a One of the biggest takeaways from my travels
conflict with the report date – let us know so was that officers do not know their senior raters'
we can update the date before releasing the priorities. If you have not had an office call with
request to IPPS-A. An officer and unit may your senior rater I recommend getting on their
each mutually preference the other – please calendar and asking what their biggest concern,
remember, before any slating is done, we issues, improvements, they want to see from
must ensure the proper slating of officers your position. Once they tell you crush number
with EFMP & MACP requirements. After both one, and improve the organization.
those populations are slated to an
assignment that meets their needs, then we JAN 25 CCC STUDENTS
run the algorithm. There is a potential of a
one-to-one match broken to accommodate At this time your orders should be in your
these requirements. hands. If not, you did not complete your
The COLs selection board was delayed and member elections. If you are going to JAN 2025
CCC and you do not have orders do your
will take place in January 2025. Good luck to
each LTC eligible. The results of the board member elections ASAP.
should come out six months from the time the CAREER COUNSELING
board closes.
I strongly encourage you to reach out to me at
any time IOT schedule a career counseling
session. I remain flexible and I am happy to
answer questions via email, TEAMS, or over the
phone. Honestly, the most convenient way to
speak with you about your career is a brief email
36 followed by a TEAMS call so I can have time to
review your file and be better prepared to
provide you the best guidance, options and
answers to your questions. The sooner you
