| Reviewing Officials Statement (ROS) |
| The ROS is a one-page document used by the Promotion Boards to assist in evaluating your performance and career progression/potential as provided by your organization. This document is completed by your Reviewing Official (typically the second line supervisor) who is normally your COER Reviewing Official. Your Reviewing Official may solicit outside letters of recommendation for his/her use in evaluating collateral duties and outside activities. Organizations are given discretion to call for higher level concurrence of the Reviewing Official assessment. However, the Promotion Board will review only the official 1-page ROS. |
| The following factors are addressed in the ROS: |
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1) Promotion
Readiness: Is the officer
ready for promotion and to serve at the next higher rank? [Yes/No]. Explain: 2) Leadership: How does the officer take on a leadership role in the OPDIV/STAFFDIV/organization? 3) Mission: How does the officer contribute to the mission of the OPDIV/STAFFDIV/organization? |
| It is helpful if the officer notifies his/her supervisor and Reviewing Official (RO) that the officer is eligible for promotion in the upcoming year. This eliminates any surprises and allows the Reviewing Official ample time to prepare a quality product for the officers they review. |
| This year, the ROS is a part of the electronic annual COER for the first time. Most ROs will complete this document at the same time he/she signs off on the officer’s annual COER. If an officer submits a manual/interim COER during their promotion eligibility year or is nominated for EPP, the RO must complete a paper version of the ROS. It is the officer’s responsibility to verify the ROS was submitted by logging onto the secure area of the CCMIS Web site. If it doesn’t appear in the officer’s eOPF following the COER deadline, officers must follow up through their chain of command to check the status of the ROS. OCCO will NOT accept ROSs which are sent directly from officers; it must be submitted either through the COER process or through their Commissioned Corps Liaison. |
| If the ROS is not completed as a part of the annual COER, the ROs MUST use the current year’s version when completing this form. No other version will be accepted. Once the document is submitted it will be indexed, dated and filed in the officer’s eOPF. The document will be given an arbitrary date, regardless of when it is submitted. Please don’t be concerned with the document date in the eOPF, the date is for internal use only and will not be seen by the promotion board members. Please note that the Board will only have access to the current year ROS; they will not see any ROS submitted from previous years. Therefore, an officer must have a new ROS submitted every year the officer is eligible for permanent or temporary grade promotion |