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OFFICER BRANCH NEWS
After you get settled at a new installation, make
Branch Chief Notes by:
LTC William J. L. Gregory sure you go into IPPS-A and update your
new mailing address. You can do this by typing
in t he search bar “Modify a Person”. This
Finance & Comptroller will bring you to your personal page to update
Leaders, Summer moves are cell phone, email addresses, and current
in full swing, with that comes permanent mailing addresses. Updating the
new opportunities and OERs. GAL does not update IPPS-A, so take a couple
If you have a question about of minutes to update your information.
the wording of an OER or
what a promotion board may If you need anything or have a question, feel
think about it, reach out to free to reach out telephonically or email branch
MAJ Souza or me. to assist you with answering any of your career
LTC Gregory questions. If you need a mentor, we are here
Part of our job here is to read every OER for
for you, too. MAJ Souza, SFC Park, and I are
our populations. We can read the evaluation
here to help in planning out your career based
and provide you some feedback before you
upon your goals. Your career manager can
sign the evaluation. LTC BROWN potentially offer you options that you have not
considered or know about.
With new jobs, you have a new beginning.
Make the most of this opportunity and get out Company Grade Officers Notes by:
there and meet the senior Finance & MAJ Thomas Souza
Comptroller Officer on the installation. Make
an office call with him/her, as well as your CAREER MANAGER NOTE
senior rater. Getting input from multiple
perspectives on a situation can help in The best career manager in the
decision making. Additionally, if you are one Army is YOU. Only you know
of the senior officers on a post, think about what is best for you and your
having an event to welcome the new FC family, and it is your
officers. This way the new FC officers can responsibility to manage your
learn who else is on the post and develop career. This means ensuring
connections. Those connections can lead to your Year Month Available
assistance when the new officer encounters (YMAV) date is correct to
something they are unfamiliar with where the support your timeline because MAJ Souza
seasoned officer can lend some assistance. it determines when you move.
Please continue to reach out early and often, I
Make sure to go to the FC AIM portal page to cannot help you if I do not know what you need.
check out the latest news. As new The 26-01 market opens mid-April, if you have
opportunities or boards come up, we post not been notified that you are moving in 26-01
information to the AIM page to reach all FC and think you should be, please contact me
officers. Anything from when a promotion (OCT-MAR YMAVs).
board will meet, who is eligible to opt-out of a
board, or who wants a unique opportunity. One of the biggest takeaways from my travels is
For officers whose promotion board just that officers do not know their senior raters'
happened or is about to happen, results
priorities. If you have not had an office call with
normally are published via the HRC website your senior rater, I recommend getting on their
approximately 180 days after the board calendar and asking what their biggest
closes. So, if your board met in October – concerns, issues, and improvements are and
expect April release. Unfortunately, there are what they want to see from your position. Once
times when a result is delayed. If there is a the y tell you, crush number one, and improve
delay, we will post that information to the AIM the organization.
portal page.
JUL 26 CCC STUDENTS
At this time, your orders should be in your
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hands. If not, you did not complete your
member elections. If you are going to JUL 2025
CCC and you do not have orders, complete your

