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- Travel, PCS and Transportation
- Important Regulation Changes
- Travel & Transportation Entitlements Summary
- Permanent Change of Station (PCS)
- Temporary Duty (TDY)
- Junior COSTEP Travel Information
- Official Travel Forms
- Household Goods Officers
- Transportation
- Government Travel Charge Card
- Table of Frequently Used Acronyms
- Servicemembers Civil Relief Act
- Links
- Travel and Transportation Allowances FAQ
- About Medical Affairs
- Dental
- Active Duty Dental Program
- Previous Active Duty Dental Plan Member Portal
- Family Coverage: TRICARE Dental Program
- Retiree Dental Program
- Immunizations
- Periodic Health Update
- PHU FAQs
- Deployment Health Assessments
- Medical Waiver Program
- Smoking Cessation
- Medical Affairs FAQs
- About Personnel & Career Management
- Awards-Officer Awards Program
- Nominations Procedures and Forms
- Eligibility to Receive Awards
- Approval Levels
- Types of Recognition & Awards Criteria
- Non-PHS Awards
- Write-Up (Narrative) Guidance & Tips
- List of OPDIV Awards Coordinators (PDF, 67kb)
- List of Liaisons (PDF, 266kb)
- 2021 USPHS Awards Process Flowchart (PDF, 702kb)
- FAQs
- May 2022 Officer Awards
- DEERS Information (PDF, 139kb)
- Important Information Regarding DEERS and ID Cards During COVID-19 (PDF, 57kb)
- eCORPS Information
- Education Benefits Overview
- FAQs
- Forms
- Electronic Official Personnel Folder (eOPF)
- eOPF FAQs
- eOPF Status
- FAQs Practice Hours and Special Pay Changes
- Licensure
- Transcripts FAQs
- Extramural and Intramural Training FAQs
- Officer Leave and Absence Request FAQ
- Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA)
- Veteran Health Administration (VHA) Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Practice Hours
- Link to list of Professional Advisory Committee (PAC) Chairs (PDF, 19kb)
- About Policy
- Commissioned Corps Issuance System
- Equal Opportunity
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Political Restrictions
- Promotion Ceremony Protocol (PDF, 126kb)
- SGHG Drill and Ceremonies Manual (PDF, 3.39mb)
- Uniform Specifications
- PHS Hard Shoulder Boards and Sleeve Insignia (Male and Female) (PDF, 828kb)
- PHS Soft Shoulder Marks (Unisex) (PDF, 324kb)
- Medical Requirements for Promotion
- Force Readiness Information
- Link to list of Chief Professional Officers (CPO) (PDF, 348kb)
- Link to list of Liaisons (PDF, 266kb)
- Promotion Board Recommendations
- Not promoted? Now What?
- FAQs
- Board Composition and Scoresheet FAQs
- Officer Promotion Packet Verification System (OPPVS) Timeline & FAQs
- Promotion, Readiness and Compliance FAQs
- Permanent Promotion Eligibility Chart
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- Visit CDC.gov for Coronavirus (COVID-19) Public Health Updates
As Public Health Service Officers and America’s Health Responders, we stand ready to preserve public health and national security during national or global health emergencies. Our mission is to be out the door as soon as requested, as this is an “all hands on deck” situation. All Corps officers were placed on involuntary deploy or "alert" status effective Wednesday, March 25, 2020, irrespective of the 'on-call month' status. Under Commissioned Corps Directive 121.02, "Deployment and Readiness," as directed by Assistant Secretary for Health, Commissioned Corps Headquarters will deploy Commissioned Corps officers assigned to HHS OpDivs/StaffDivs, either voluntarily or involuntarily and without supervisory approval, who are not considered mission critical, for deployments, under the current National Emergency. Mission critical requests sent to CCHQ are not final until the request is approved by the CCHQ Director as per the POM 821.76 ”Deployment Procedures”. An officer with a non-HHS organization may be deployed in accordance with the Memorandum of Agreement/Understanding between the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and the non-HHS organization.
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Officer Support
Education Benefits
Important Post-9-11 GI Bill Transferability Changes
The Department of Defense extended the implementation deadline of a mandatory change to the transferability of the Post-9/11 GI Bill. The original July 12, 2019 date has been moved to Sunday, January 12, 2020.
Officers with over 16 years of creditable active duty uniformed service will no longer be able to transfer education benefits. If you currently have 15 or more years of service, and would like to transfer your education benefits to an eligible family member, please submit a request by January 11, 2020.
Important Information Regarding Transferability:
- You must have 6 years of creditable active duty service to apply
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There is a four-year service obligation from the date of your application
- Effective July 12, 2018, all service members must be able to complete the obligation
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You may only transfer education benefits to eligible family members
- Any family member not eligible for the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS), is not eligible for transfer
- Eligibility does not guarantee approval
- This change does not affect already approved request.
- This change does not affect the sponsor’s ability to modify current elections.
Commissioned Corps Headquarters is in the process of updating forms and policy regarding education benefits transferability. We will provide updates by email and on this webpage.
Additional information regarding the various types of GI Bills is available on the Frequently Asked Questions page. Instructions and forms are located on the Education Benefits forms webpage. Please see additional resources and links below.
For questions related to your PHS Commissioned Corps Education Benefits, please email: phsdeersgibill@hhs.gov
Resources:
Education Benefits Forms webpage
PHS Form 7082
How to Transfer Post-9/11 GI Bill Benefits (New instructions)
Education Benefits FAQs webpage
milConnect website
Post-9/11 GI Bill website
Forever GI Bill website
Education Programs website - Review benefits of all education programs.
Apply for Certificate of Eligibility (COE) for VA Form 22-1990E
Request DS Logon and Help Center