• Promotion Information

  Promotion Board Recommendations

  The promotion board will make a promotion recommendation. The majority recommendation (at least 3 of 5 board members) becomes the overall board recommendation.

  For the Permanent Grade there are two options:

  Recommend - This means that if the success rate is 100 percent, the board feels this officer should be promoted. A board‘s recommendation alone does not necessarily mean the officer will be promoted; the board’s numerical score must also rank the officer high enough to be above the cut-off line, based on the success rates (See Promotion Process in the Table of Contents).

  Not Recommend -This means that regardless of the score or success rate, the board feels this officer should not be promoted and should be reviewed for retention in the Corps.

  If an officer gets an overall board recommendation of “Not Recommend” two consecutive years in a row in the permanent grade, he/she will be referred to an Involuntary Retirement/Separation Board. The promotion board members are instructed of the consequences of a “Not Recommend” and do not make this decision lightly.

  For the Temporary Grade there are two options:

  Recommend -This means that if the success rate is 100 percent, the board feels this officer should be promoted. A board’s recommendation alone does not necessarily mean the officer will be promoted; the board’s numerical score must also rank the officer high enough to be above the cut-off line, based on the success rates (See Promotion Process in the Table of Contents).

  Not Recommend This means that regardless of the score or success rate, the board feels this officer should not be promoted and should be reviewed for retention in the Corps. Officers will also receive an automatic “not recommend” if they were reported by Readiness and Deployment Operations Group (RedDOG) as not meeting readiness standards at the time of the December quarterly check.

  If a Promotion Board recommends that an officer be promoted and he/she has no adverse actions, an officer may be considered for promotion until successful, unless the officer scores/ranks in the bottom 10% for their category and grade three consecutive years. Officers who score/rank in the bottom 10% three consecutive years are removed from Temporary Grade promotion eligibility and referred to a Retention Review Board for further evaluation.

  Promotion Instructions are available on the Commissioned Corps Issuance System (CCIS).

  • Select "Commissioned Corps Issuance System" from the link bar at the top of this page.
  • Click on "Table of Contents."
  • Click on the "+" next to "Book 3: Personnel Management."
  • Click on Chapter 3: Promotions and Reductions.
  • Click the "+" next to the topic of interest related to promotions. The section title will turn blue.
  • Double click the blue section title and refer to the policy governing this process.
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