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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 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
- PHS Award Recipients
- 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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Separations
Submitting Separations Forms
Per policy, the deadline for submitting separation requests is 90 days from your projected last physical day at your duty station. If you have not already done so, please review the in-depth retirement and separations information provided in the Commissioned Corps Learning Management System Separations Seminar (CCLMS). We recommend that if you plan to retire, you start the process at least 12-24 months before your projected retirement. The deadline for submitting separation requests is 90 days from your projected last physical day working at your duty station.
You must log-in to access the seminar and necessary forms for the separation process. Instructions are provided on the Separations Seminar webpage. Information and guidance in the online seminar will help you successfully navigate the retirement and resignation process. The Separations Seminar serves as an invaluable tool for you (and your family) to use.
Please refer to the list below as a guide to the necessary forms you’ll need to retire or resign.
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Resigning and Retiring Officers:
- PHS-1373
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- Please email to your CC liaison to be forwarded to CCHQ Separations.
- You are strongly encouraged to view the online tutorial for completing PHS-1373 (time point in recording: 06:33:30 – 07:07:00)
- Exit Physical (Optional, but highly recommended for Retiring and Resigning Officers):
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- It’s highly recommended that you submit the following forms 90 days prior to your final day on duty. Officers should upload the forms as a single PDF to the Medical section of the eDOCU portal: Document Type: “Periodic Health Update.” DO NOT MAIL DOCUMENTS. Submitting your documents electronically is faster, more reliable, and speeds the transfer of medical records to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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- DD2808
- DD2807-1
- PHS-7083
- DD-2813
- General Instructions for Completing DD-2808 and DD-2807-1, and DD 2813.
- Required Disclosure Statement and Instructions Statement of Understanding
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Officers still on active duty MUST upload documents in eDOC-U. Recently separated officers who still need to submit documents to Medical Affairs, please mail your documents to the following address:
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CCHQ Attention: Medical Affairs
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 300
Rockville, MD 20852
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CCHQ Attention: Medical Affairs
- Retiring Officers Only:
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- DD-2656 Data For Payment of Retired Personnel
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- W-4 form: Along with the DD-2656, please attach a completed W-4 form. The USCG now requires this form to be included at the time of submission.
- You are strongly encouraged to view the online tutorial using PW (jSDJ5MwF) to access the training.
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Mail DD-2656 (if applicable) & W-4 to the address below:
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CCHQ, Attention: Separations
1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 300
Rockville, MD 20852
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- Request to Change Mailing Address PHS-6363 (Only required if address changes before final Statement of Service and final W-2 mailed). Please email to CompensationBranch@hhs.gov.
- Home of Selection (Only required if Home of Selection was not indicated on the PHS-1373). Please email to PHSCCSeparations@hhs.gov.
- Request to Change Mailing Address PHS-6363 (Only required if address changes before final Statement of Service and final W-2 mailed). Please email to CompensationBranch@hhs.gov.
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Resigning and Retiring Officers: