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OFFICER BRANCH NEWS
Branch Chief Notes by: Company Grade Officers Notes by:
LTC William J. L. Gregory MAJ Thomas Souza
CA REER MANAGER NOTE
Finance & Comptroller The best career manager in the
Leaders, Army is YOU. Only you know
Movement cycles are what is best for you and your
stressful for everyone. When family, and it is your
the marketplace closes in the responsibility to manage your
following weeks, HRC will
take time to review all the career. This means ensuring
your Year Month Available
assignment matches and (YMAV) date is correct to
ensure any restriction to an support your timeline because
ensure any restriction to an
assignment or consideration LTC Gregory it determines when you move. MAJ Souza
assignment or consideration is accounted for
Please continue to reach out early and often, I
is accounted into the process
in the process before slating an officer to an
cannot help you if I do not know what you need.
before slating an officer to an
assignment. The next step in that process is
assignment.
an email notification from the career manager The 26-01 market opens mid-April, if you have
LTC BROWN
telling the officer what they were matched not been notified that you are moving in 26-01
from the market. From that point, the career and think you should be, please contact me
manager works with either our legacy system (OCT-MAR YMAVs).
or IPPS-A to create the request for orders
(RFOs) or assignment instructions (AI). Both One of the biggest takeaways from my travels
of those processes go through an approval was that officers do not know their senior raters'
process to ensure that the officer can take the priorities. If you have not had an office call with
assignment. Whether it is the Advance Civil your senior rater, I recommend getting on their
School Department ensuring an officer is calendar and asking what their biggest
going to a utilization tour after DCP or concerns, issues, improvements are and what
Exceptional Family Member Program, we they want to see from your position. Once they
check to see if the officer’s family can receive tell you, crush number one, and improve the
the necessary assistance at the new duty organization.
location. Once the RFO/AI make it through JUL 25 CCC STUDENTS
that process, then the legacy system pushes
the RFO into IPPS-A, and an AI request At this time, your orders should be in your
generates the assignment in IPPS-A and the hands. If not, you did not complete your
officer gets an email notification to complete member elections. If you are going to JUL 2025
member elections in IPPS-A in order to assist CCC and you do not have orders, complete your
the local MPD with creating PCS orders. If member elections ASAP.
more than five weeks pass and you have not
gotten an IPPS-A members election email, CAREER COUNSELING
you need to reach out to your career manager I strongly encourage you to reach out to me at
to check on it. any time to schedule a career counseling
session. I remain flexible, and I am happy to
If you need anything or have questions, feel answer questions via email, TEAMS, or phone.
free to reach out telephonically or email
Honestly, the most convenient way to speak
branch. MAJ Souza, SFC Park, and I are here with you about your career is a brief email
to help in planning your career based upon followed by a TEAMS call, so I can have time to
your goals. Your career manager may also be review your file and be better prepared to
able to offer you options that you may not not provide you with the best guidance, options and
have considered or know about. answers to your questions. The sooner you
reach out the better.
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