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FLEET ACTIVITIES YOKOSUKA, Japan (August 27, 2026) -- This is a transcript of the Billet Based Advancement Brief held at the Career Development Symposium in Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka's Fleet Theater August 27, 2026 presented by Chief Personnel Specialist Jessica Aguirre from OPNAV N132.
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1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:27,860 Hey, good morning, everyone. How's everyone doing? Great, right? What a beautiful day to be in Japan. Thank you guys for having us. And thank you guys for coming out to this brief. I am Chief Aguirre with N132 Charlie and Enlisted Plans and Policies. This is my Lieutenant Commander, Lieutenant Commander Snap. And we have Master Chief Adriano over here on the left hand side. Say hi. Okay, bye fleet. Thank you for coming. So I want to start off. All right. How many Ravens fans we got in here?
2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:36,520 What? Any? Nobody? Nobody from Baltimore? I'll be repping. All right all right. Well
3 00:00:36,520 --> 00:00:41,740 it's our year whatever it's our year so Lamar got some protection now so we're
4 00:00:41,740 --> 00:00:48,300 gonna win this but I'm here to talk to you guys about billet based advancement
5 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:52,520 so everybody's heard about billet based advancement I'm guessing who's affected
6 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:59,020 from it in this room cool okay okay all right well you guys came to the right
7 00:00:59,020 --> 00:01:04,120 place we are the birthplace of BBA our offices right so you can thank us later
8 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:10,420 with we take sweet treats and stuff next one all right so this is the
9 00:01:10,420 --> 00:01:17,920 government instruction BUPERS instruction 1430 point 16 hotel we were
10 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,660 putting out a lot of NAVADMINs you guys remember that and it was hard to keep
11 00:01:22,660 --> 00:01:26,200 track of I know because even in my office I'm over here printing them out
12 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,820 oh snap I have a question I got to answer this let me pull out the NAVADMIN
13 00:01:29,820 --> 00:01:34,820 so what we did is we consolidated all of those that NAVADMINs so if
14 00:01:34,820 --> 00:01:38,820 you're still referencing a NAVADMIN you're because that was those were
15 00:01:38,820 --> 00:01:42,820 cancelled and they were superseded by this instruction so in this instruction
16 00:01:42,820 --> 00:01:52,280 chapter 13 is explicitly BBA it is 11 pages long right 11 pages long so how
17 00:01:52,280 --> 00:01:57,920 people are gonna are getting ready for doomsday right watch doomsday anybody gonna watch avengers
18 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:03,380 endgame it's coming out right we're excited anybody yeah i got a few marvel tattoos my
19 00:02:03,380 --> 00:02:09,660 favorite okay okay okay cool so in the amount of time it takes you to drive or get on the train
20 00:02:09,660 --> 00:02:15,300 to go see this movie you can literally read this chapter it is 11 pages maybe two more
21 00:02:15,300 --> 00:02:21,540 sentences on page 12 so really 11 pages it is quick and that everything applies to everyone
22 00:02:21,540 --> 00:02:25,360 right because there's some submarine rating stuff in there if you're not in the senior enlisted
23 00:02:25,360 --> 00:02:29,160 marketplace there's some stuff there you can just kind of skim through like oh it's not applying to
24 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:37,780 me but this is where i say knowledge is power why do i say that because a few months ago we were in
25 00:02:37,780 --> 00:02:45,000 Hawaii and we had just done this brief and a sailor comes up to us and says so Chief we have
26 00:02:45,000 --> 00:02:49,920 been you you're saying that I could have applied for a billet in the next pay
27 00:02:49,920 --> 00:02:57,300 grade for two years now I said yes when you take the RKE you get a DMEI on the
28 00:02:57,300 --> 00:03:01,020 marketplace and you can apply for a bill in the next pay grade he said my chain
29 00:03:01,020 --> 00:03:06,400 of command told me that I couldn't that I had to wait till my PRD so you're
30 00:03:06,400 --> 00:03:12,720 telling me that I miss out on an advancement for two years now put
31 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:17,400 yourself in his shoes I would have been pissed right finding that out I'd have
32 00:03:17,400 --> 00:03:22,740 been upset and yes failure on leadership but also failure on himself because
33 00:03:22,740 --> 00:03:27,220 we're responsible for our own career right no one cares about our your own
34 00:03:27,220 --> 00:03:32,280 career then the person you know experiencing it right so this is what's
35 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:36,120 going to give you that knowledge I'll give you another another fun story here
36 00:03:36,120 --> 00:03:48,100 right? So when we talk about, and it was in Hawaii as well, a sailor wanted a CA2P. There was,
37 00:03:48,180 --> 00:03:55,080 he was a CS3. There was a CS2 billet that was open. CO was like, I don't want this Sailor.
38 00:03:55,380 --> 00:04:02,340 I'm not, I'm good. You know, I'll take someone from the marketplace. Well, that billet opens
39 00:04:02,340 --> 00:04:07,580 up in the marketplace? What do you think CS3 did? He applied for the billet. He's like,
40 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:14,080 I know how this works. CS3 was the only person to apply for that billet. So guess what the
41 00:04:14,080 --> 00:04:21,940 CO got? Congratulations, sir. CS2 arriving, right? Nothing the CO could do. So knowledge
42 00:04:21,940 --> 00:04:27,620 is power. The more you know, the more lethal you become in your own career, especially
43 00:04:27,620 --> 00:04:33,300 when it comes to advancement and this is where it starts next slide thank you what is BBA
44 00:04:34,420 --> 00:04:39,220 billet-based advancements for a lot of us the first time we heard about it is when it started
45 00:04:39,220 --> 00:04:46,260 affecting us but we've always been billet-based advancements we've always advanced to vacancies
46 00:04:46,260 --> 00:04:51,540 we just never had a mechanism to put sailors in the right place at the right time right in those
47 00:04:51,540 --> 00:04:57,700 correct billets so we would have fracking ceremonies i remember when i was an AZ back in the day
48 00:04:57,700 --> 00:05:04,900 got frock to AZ2 stayed in my AZ3 billet and somewhere out there there was a billet that
49 00:05:04,900 --> 00:05:12,900 needed an AZ2 that was remaining unfilled we needed to fix that next slide in in the past
50 00:05:12,900 --> 00:05:18,340 right we started with the nines we started with 14 ratings right four anybody remember MAP
51 00:05:19,620 --> 00:05:26,980 yeah listen on behalf of N132 we're sorry with MAP right boo MAP if you don't remember MAP
52 00:05:26,980 --> 00:05:31,940 that was our first iteration at BBA that's why we changed the name and everything we messed up with
53 00:05:31,940 --> 00:05:38,420 MAP we were telling everyone we wanted you to stay at sea for four years to advance the next
54 00:05:38,420 --> 00:05:46,340 pay grade plus three seven years straight at sea messed up right because we were desperate we needed
55 00:05:46,340 --> 00:05:52,020 these people to stay we did not have we did not have the manpower we needed at sea but we had
56 00:05:52,020 --> 00:05:58,260 these engagements people came to us and said this sucks we listened right when you had enough people
57 00:05:58,260 --> 00:06:04,580 come to your door with pitchforks we got to listen so up at DC we had to reval you know change the
58 00:06:04,580 --> 00:06:12,180 whole program up came BBA which started with the nines and you guys deserve that right why are we
59 00:06:12,180 --> 00:06:17,140 going to start with the bottom of the bag the guinea pigs no we need to fix the nines we need
60 00:06:17,140 --> 00:06:23,940 to hold the nines accountable so before we started this program we're at 40 fill rate with E9s at sea
61 00:06:23,940 --> 00:06:32,580 or I'm sorry across the Fleet 40 here we are four years later you see that number that number you
62 00:06:32,580 --> 00:06:40,100 know fluctuates around 88 to 94 on a good day it's amazing so when people come up to us and ask hey
63 00:06:40,100 --> 00:06:47,060 when is BBA going to go away you think when the CNO the MCPON Fleet CNP are seeing these numbers
64 00:06:47,060 --> 00:06:53,380 it's going to go away probably not so we started with them because we needed to see that it worked
65 00:06:53,380 --> 00:06:58,340 they were a smaller group i think it was only fair right and we're seeing that it's working
66 00:06:58,340 --> 00:07:03,780 look at those numbers going down to eight to nine I'm tired to seven even with Chiefs she's
67 00:07:03,780 --> 00:07:09,960 were a little bit higher we choose or standing at what 70% the reason they
68 00:07:09,960 --> 00:07:15,620 were higher is because we had something called CPL optimization redistribution
69 00:07:15,620 --> 00:07:20,640 now I don't know if you guys know this but way back in the day when the Chiefs
70 00:07:20,640 --> 00:07:24,900 made E7 you know they they would get a call from the detailer the detailers
71 00:07:24,900 --> 00:07:29,700 would sit in this big room and say let's play you know let's play these games
72 00:07:29,700 --> 00:07:32,740 right let's move them here this is where we need them call them and say
73 00:07:32,740 --> 00:07:36,220 congratulations Chief this is these are your new orders I need you to go fill a
74 00:07:36,220 --> 00:07:39,780 Chief job so they didn't get a choice than that
75 00:07:39,780 --> 00:07:46,480 bill of base advancement gives you a choice how many heard when this started
76 00:07:46,480 --> 00:07:51,920 coming out hey I'm getting out the Navy this thing sucks oh big rumors in
77 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,540 Facebook right I just thought we just saw it everywhere and I I'm not you know
78 00:07:55,540 --> 00:07:59,980 I'm not trying to front we were scared we were scared a little bit in DC I mean
79 00:07:59,980 --> 00:08:04,040 I know I was, maybe, you know, I don't know how many other people were scared, but I was
80 00:08:04,040 --> 00:08:04,680 a little bit nervous.
81 00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:07,720 Like, these people are, all right, they're going to walk the walk.
82 00:08:09,820 --> 00:08:13,480 I know if you guys, these retention rates, these are the people that are staying in,
83 00:08:13,500 --> 00:08:13,640 right?
84 00:08:13,700 --> 00:08:19,900 So we're talking about zone A to zone C. These are anywhere from zero to 10 years to 14 years
85 00:08:19,900 --> 00:08:20,620 in the Navy.
86 00:08:21,260 --> 00:08:24,320 We're over 100% in all of these categories.
87 00:08:25,060 --> 00:08:29,800 So your friends that are saying, oh, I'm going to get out, those numbers are not lying.
88 00:08:29,980 --> 00:08:32,320 They're not getting out.
89 00:08:32,320 --> 00:08:34,020 They're taking these advancements.
90 00:08:34,020 --> 00:08:36,280 They're OBLISERVing, and they're reporting
91 00:08:36,280 --> 00:08:37,860 to the next pay grade.
92 00:08:37,860 --> 00:08:38,700 Next slide.
93 00:08:40,020 --> 00:08:41,580 Eligibility requirements, right?
94 00:08:41,580 --> 00:08:45,080 So, oh my gosh, so here's the thing, right?
95 00:08:45,080 --> 00:08:48,300 BBA, right, I gave you the instruction.
96 00:08:48,300 --> 00:08:51,400 I'm giving, I'm literally giving you the power here, right?
97 00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:55,340 BBA, so when we talk about eligibility, right?
98 00:08:55,340 --> 00:08:56,920 Does anybody know what we need?
99 00:08:56,920 --> 00:08:57,760 Let's start, right?
100 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:03,240 A sailor that just gets here, reports, now I'm going to be eligible for the exam.
101 00:09:03,380 --> 00:09:04,980 What do I need to do to take the RKE?
102 00:09:06,560 --> 00:09:06,960 Anybody?
103 00:09:09,100 --> 00:09:09,500 Yes?
104 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:10,320 Your PMKE.
105 00:09:11,340 --> 00:09:13,080 PMKE, right, part of the app.
106 00:09:13,200 --> 00:09:13,940 That hasn't changed.
107 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:18,460 PMKE, if you need, you know, for our E6s, you need our ILDC.
108 00:09:18,520 --> 00:09:19,860 Our E5 is going to E6s, right?
109 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:24,940 Periodic evaluation and pay grade.
110 00:09:25,600 --> 00:09:28,600 So I was in, where were we?
111 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:30,000 It was somewhere in Florida.
112 00:09:30,000 --> 00:09:33,540 And I'm giving this brief, Sailor raises his hand.
113 00:09:33,540 --> 00:09:38,200 I won't forget the date, February 27, 2026.
114 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:42,220 And he says, oh, we just filled our E5 evals
115 00:09:42,220 --> 00:09:45,180 and dated it for February 27 as the end date.
116 00:09:46,040 --> 00:09:48,920 I got any YNs in here, any Chiefs?
117 00:09:48,920 --> 00:09:50,760 Crazy, right?
118 00:09:50,760 --> 00:09:52,880 You, we already know that's wrong.
119 00:09:52,880 --> 00:09:53,720 I said, what?
120 00:09:53,720 --> 00:09:59,640 yeah we're trying to make them eligible. Whoa, so that, you know, that stopped us in our tracks.
121 00:10:00,360 --> 00:10:04,280 That's not, that's no, that's a no, right, because he was trying to get them into the March exam.
122 00:10:04,840 --> 00:10:09,800 Kudos for trying to help your sailors, but that is against policy, right, we have it in instruction
123 00:10:09,800 --> 00:10:15,400 when those days have to end for E-5s. But that's, you know, Sailors will Sailor, which is why we had
124 00:10:15,400 --> 00:10:20,920 to be very specific, and that's why we, you know, we're sorry if it gets confusing, but Sailors will
125 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:26,440 If we don't get specific, if we don't say this is the hard line, they're gonna end
126 00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:31,480 their evals on February 27th. We can't have that. So you get that, then you take
127 00:10:31,480 --> 00:10:36,940 the RKE and you get a passing score, right? So that passing score, take it to
128 00:10:36,940 --> 00:10:42,520 the ball game. You go and you take your passing score, you get what we call a DMEI.
129 00:10:42,520 --> 00:10:46,120 Anybody know what that stands for?
130 00:10:48,380 --> 00:10:53,040 there you go boom boom boom I can't yet I give you some candy detailing
131 00:10:53,040 --> 00:10:57,400 marketplace eligibility indicator now what it when we go around and talk about
132 00:10:57,400 --> 00:11:02,820 this I noticed that there is confusion everybody thinks the DMEI I is a score
133 00:11:02,820 --> 00:11:08,440 that is used in MNA it's not it's an eligibility indicator it just tells an
134 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:15,040 MNA hey this Taylor can go and apply for bill it to the next pay grade that easy
135 00:11:15,040 --> 00:11:25,480 right next next slide so one thing that we are seeing statistically you're
136 00:11:25,480 --> 00:11:29,680 looking at these graphs and like what is this right but you can read the words
137 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:36,600 right statistically where you have seen a 50% increase in RKE Christmas tree
138 00:11:36,600 --> 00:11:40,420 why do you think that's an issue
139 00:11:42,080 --> 00:11:50,420 anybody no yes exactly they're just guessing making Christmas trees on their
140 00:11:50,420 --> 00:11:52,940 for answer sheets
141 00:12:00,360 --> 00:12:05,620 exactly because all we said is you need a pass the RKE and you can go in the
142 00:12:05,620 --> 00:12:11,320 marketplace and compete for orders you want to know why that's scary there's a
143 00:12:11,320 --> 00:12:17,680 flag coming up because RKE matters a lot more than you think it does if you don't
144 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:25,240 already know it is it matters 50% more than you think it does the RKE so that
145 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:32,240 is one myth we want to dispel the RKE matters still right we saw that when we
146 00:12:32,240 --> 00:12:37,640 talk about the RKE we did see something that kind of alarmed us and we had to we
147 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:43,920 had to move fast over an OPNAV Sailors took the RKE in March had or took the
148 00:12:43,920 --> 00:12:50,300 RKE are the exam in past September September 2025 they negotiated for
149 00:12:50,300 --> 00:12:58,100 orders and what do you think they did in March they took the exam anybody guess
150 00:12:58,100 --> 00:13:07,100 why that is scary because they could get a lot of lower score but that's not
151 00:13:07,100 --> 00:13:10,700 that's not that's actually what happened but it's scarier than that they had
152 00:13:10,700 --> 00:13:19,060 orders and they failed the exam what is one eligibility for advancement passing
153 00:13:19,060 --> 00:13:25,100 the RKE you just failed the RKE and you have advancement orders and we saw that
154 00:13:25,100 --> 00:13:33,260 fleet-wide so ESOs if you're out here if you are also if you're taking the exam
155 00:13:33,260 --> 00:13:39,680 what are we not gonna do if we get orders take the exam because we know
156 00:13:39,680 --> 00:13:46,340 it's optional right because the RKE is good for 24 months two years right so
157 00:13:46,340 --> 00:13:51,420 don't be like these Sailors that I'm telling the story and next like how BBA
158 00:13:51,420 --> 00:13:56,820 works so we have the external and internal process external process a2p
159 00:13:56,820 --> 00:14:00,540 right this is where my senior listed folks all these acronyms we're gonna
160 00:14:00,540 --> 00:14:05,760 we're gonna dumb it down a2p advanced to position you can go in the marketplace
161 00:14:05,760 --> 00:14:12,420 and apply for orders in the next pay grade and you are competing internal
162 00:14:12,420 --> 00:14:17,380 means there is a billet in there's a billet vacant that's funded and it's
163 00:14:17,380 --> 00:14:25,060 valid, right? In your command or within your TICOM, meaning if you have a couple ships that
164 00:14:25,060 --> 00:14:30,760 are all part of TICOM and there's a billet there, it's fair game. It's another way of advancement.
165 00:14:32,100 --> 00:14:37,820 The big thing that we want to touch on CA2P that we see a lot is the OBLISERV portion.
166 00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:43,160 So when you're on sea duty, OBLISERV is 36 months from the day you get advanced.
167 00:14:44,060 --> 00:14:51,900 Shore duty, it's 36 months past PRD, because your PRD will not get extended, for a follow-on tour.
168 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:55,200 Yeah, I see the face.
169 00:14:55,500 --> 00:14:55,800 What?
170 00:14:56,280 --> 00:14:56,500 What?
171 00:14:56,920 --> 00:14:57,520 I get it.
172 00:14:57,600 --> 00:14:58,120 Yeah, I know.
173 00:14:58,480 --> 00:15:03,720 Because the Sailors that are at sea, they're extended 36 months out.
174 00:15:04,460 --> 00:15:09,040 So we don't know if that Sailor had been on board for 24 months already.
175 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:13,140 But we're going to let a Sailor extend at shore?
176 00:15:13,580 --> 00:15:20,580 What if they spent 36 months out? No, we're gonna let you finish your tour. But back in the day when we had MAP
177 00:15:21,460 --> 00:15:26,700 How many people saw a lot of Sailors get MAPed and then the next year say, all right deuces I'm out
178 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:33,880 That was missed opportunities for all of us in this room because look at us we're all sitting here
179 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,980 See if you see a 2p negates that next slide
180 00:15:39,580 --> 00:15:46,040 All right. Here's where we're going to talk with RKE matters, right? So this is what everybody
181 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:52,040 confuses the DMEI with. This is your sailors scoring criteria. You go on my Navy HR. There is
182 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:58,640 a BBA one, one for E6 and below. And then there's a senior enlisted market marketplace one. So for
183 00:15:58,640 --> 00:16:08,260 my BBA Sailors, where do we see 50% at? Final multiple score. What goes into your final multiple
184 00:16:08,260 --> 00:16:17,680 score? Evals and your test score, right? Final multiple score is evals and test score. So when
185 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:26,820 you're telling me 50% of my points come from just the exam and evals alone, can anybody tell me why
186 00:16:26,820 --> 00:16:33,160 we're Christmas treating the exam still? Because the belief is all I got to do is get a ticket to
187 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:39,720 dance now here's here's one thing right we have to change our mind our mindset right when we were
188 00:16:39,720 --> 00:16:48,200 taking the NWAE that was an advancement exam the RKE stands for what rating knowledge exam
189 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:55,160 it's just another eligibility it's like taking that PMKE that's it it doesn't guarantee you an
190 00:16:55,160 --> 00:17:02,920 advancement so if that's part of hey I gotta take this test and I gotta do really well I'm studying
191 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:07,020 I'm not Christmas treeing this because my advancement is riding on it.
192 00:17:07,680 --> 00:17:11,540 Right? One of the other things we can highlight is the command ranking.
193 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:14,160 Who knows about the MNA resume?
194 00:17:16,300 --> 00:17:20,880 Nice. So I start to see more hands go up as we keep doing this, which is amazing.
195 00:17:21,100 --> 00:17:27,500 And I hopefully it's because we're putting it up or honestly, I hope more is because your NCCs are out there.
196 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:34,620 the command career counselors are educating you on it so when commands go inside MNA and they get to
197 00:17:34,620 --> 00:17:40,700 rank the Sailors that applied for their billets they open up that resume there's a lot of times
198 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:47,580 that that resume is not being filled but if a Sailor is let's say there's a Sailor that's neck
199 00:17:47,580 --> 00:17:55,180 and neck and one Sailor EP great Sailor has the same criteria another Sailor same thing but he's
200 00:17:55,180 --> 00:17:56,940 he's the Junior Sailor of the Year.
201 00:17:58,040 --> 00:18:01,020 As a command, who do you think they're picking?
202 00:18:01,020 --> 00:18:04,140 Yeah, I want the Junior Sailor of the Year.
203 00:18:04,140 --> 00:18:06,540 I want him at my command, that's my number one.
204 00:18:06,540 --> 00:18:08,840 This is where you guys have the opportunity
205 00:18:08,840 --> 00:18:11,940 to speak to these commands without picking up the phone
206 00:18:11,940 --> 00:18:13,560 and telling and showing them what they got.
207 00:18:13,560 --> 00:18:16,560 Something that might not be available to them, right?
208 00:18:16,560 --> 00:18:19,760 Whatever you have in your eval, things that you've done,
209 00:18:19,760 --> 00:18:21,580 that command, it might be something
210 00:18:21,580 --> 00:18:23,220 that you're looking for, right?
211 00:18:23,220 --> 00:18:24,300 Hey, I need more admin support.
212 00:18:24,300 --> 00:18:28,620 I need someone who's done ESO experience, things like that.
213 00:18:28,620 --> 00:18:31,780 So command ranking, super important.
214 00:18:31,780 --> 00:18:34,200 We talk about the Sailor app ranking.
215 00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:38,860 So your number one choice matters.
216 00:18:38,860 --> 00:18:42,040 You're going to get more points on that application
217 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:43,960 if they're your number one choice than if they
218 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:46,040 were your number 10.
219 00:18:46,040 --> 00:18:48,560 In the Sailor scoring criteria, that DGM,
220 00:18:48,560 --> 00:18:50,900 when you look on my Navy HR, it breaks it down.
221 00:18:50,900 --> 00:18:51,860 And I'm not going to bore you with it,
222 00:18:51,860 --> 00:18:57,380 then you guys are going to be sleeping and E7 above is very similar right so for my anchors in
223 00:18:57,380 --> 00:19:04,500 here uh because of the feedback we've gone right we're looking to revise some of this not set a
224 00:19:04,500 --> 00:19:09,540 stone we're just looking maybe making something a little bit higher something a little bit lower
225 00:19:09,540 --> 00:19:13,300 but just like force said and I'm not going to be into the bush right cumulative seed time was
226 00:19:13,300 --> 00:19:17,780 something that uh was revised because of the feedback we got the things that we learned as
227 00:19:17,780 --> 00:19:19,760 as we were doing this.
228 00:19:19,760 --> 00:19:20,600 Next slide.
229 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,140 BBA success strategies.
230 00:19:24,140 --> 00:19:26,440 So what did we learn here, right?
231 00:19:26,440 --> 00:19:28,760 RKE is important, why?
232 00:19:30,420 --> 00:19:35,260 50%, 50% of our Sailors scoring criteria, that matters.
233 00:19:35,260 --> 00:19:36,840 And even if you're not in BBA,
234 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,520 I want you guys to go out there and share that.
235 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:41,720 It matters, right?
236 00:19:41,720 --> 00:19:43,340 Maintain strong evaluations
237 00:19:43,340 --> 00:19:47,460 because it's also part of your FMS, which is 50%.
238 00:19:47,460 --> 00:19:49,600 Communicate with your chain of command.
239 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:54,360 Hey, I'm interested in a CA2 billet here at the command.
240 00:19:54,360 --> 00:19:55,580 I want to stay.
241 00:19:55,580 --> 00:19:57,840 I'm willing to do the OBLISERV,
242 00:19:57,840 --> 00:20:00,660 because I went to the BBA brief and learned what that is.
243 00:20:00,660 --> 00:20:02,340 I learned the requirements.
244 00:20:02,340 --> 00:20:03,600 I read the instruction.
245 00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:04,740 I'm ready.
246 00:20:04,740 --> 00:20:07,460 Put me in the game, coach.
247 00:20:07,460 --> 00:20:10,260 Apply for a wide range of billets.
248 00:20:10,260 --> 00:20:13,980 I want to emphasize again, the RKE does not
249 00:20:13,980 --> 00:20:16,740 mean you're going to advance.
250 00:20:16,740 --> 00:20:19,220 And we see that as we go in the fleet,
251 00:20:19,220 --> 00:20:22,040 a lot of people are like, I need to apply.
252 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:23,500 I need, you know, I need to advance.
253 00:20:23,500 --> 00:20:24,340 I need to advance.
254 00:20:24,340 --> 00:20:26,360 It's created an urgency,
255 00:20:26,360 --> 00:20:29,380 but we let all these sales in the marketplace.
256 00:20:29,380 --> 00:20:33,120 In the past, we had very low quotas, right?
257 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:36,120 Sometimes, some meetings, right?
258 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:39,080 Matt Sheave loves to talk about BM1 specifically.
259 00:20:39,080 --> 00:20:44,080 BM1, the advancement quota was at 1% in the past.
260 00:20:45,720 --> 00:20:48,620 Up at OPNAV, we ran those numbers.
261 00:20:48,620 --> 00:20:51,280 If we advertise every single billet to every Sailor
262 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,780 that is eligible for advancement right now,
263 00:20:53,780 --> 00:20:58,100 that is a 33% opportunity for advancement.
264 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:00,440 So Billet Based has opened the door
265 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:02,360 for a lot of these ratings.
266 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:06,820 The lowest percentage of, you know, if we had a quota,
267 00:21:06,820 --> 00:21:10,520 if we open all the billets, it would be 22%.
268 00:21:10,520 --> 00:21:12,000 I don't think we have any of those ratings in here,
269 00:21:12,000 --> 00:21:13,160 so don't worry.
270 00:21:13,160 --> 00:21:17,140 But apply for a wide range of billets, why?
271 00:21:17,140 --> 00:21:19,760 Again, just like that sailor in Hawaii.
272 00:21:19,760 --> 00:21:21,480 Okay, they come in, didn't want him,
273 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:25,980 but he was the only person that applied for the billet
274 00:21:25,980 --> 00:21:26,820 and he won.
275 00:21:28,040 --> 00:21:31,840 We have another instance where there was one application
276 00:21:31,840 --> 00:21:36,840 that had 150, or one billet that had 150 applications.
277 00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:41,900 One sailor left, you know, left that situation
278 00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:45,400 with BBA is the best thing since sliced bread.
279 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:47,180 Best thing the Navy can offer me.
280 00:21:47,180 --> 00:21:48,740 I'm number one.
281 00:21:48,740 --> 00:21:53,000 149 other Sailors said, this sucks.
282 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,420 BBA doesn't work.
283 00:21:54,420 --> 00:21:57,620 Look, I didn't get to stay in San Diego for my fourth tour.
284 00:21:59,240 --> 00:22:02,180 That is a mindset that we're in, right?
285 00:22:02,180 --> 00:22:03,840 We are in a culture today.
286 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,980 We are in, unfortunately, in a place, right?
287 00:22:06,980 --> 00:22:08,900 And we are in a great profession,
288 00:22:08,900 --> 00:22:13,340 but a profession that requires us to make decisions
289 00:22:13,340 --> 00:22:15,060 that might not be comfortable.
290 00:22:17,420 --> 00:22:21,360 If the country needs you in Lemoore, California,
291 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:23,680 that is where the country needs you.
292 00:22:23,680 --> 00:22:25,180 That is where you are going to find
293 00:22:25,180 --> 00:22:27,700 that advancement opportunity.
294 00:22:27,700 --> 00:22:31,280 But if you are comfortable wanting to stay in San Diego,
295 00:22:31,280 --> 00:22:35,640 Jacksonville, maybe Yokosuka, I don't know,
296 00:22:35,640 --> 00:22:38,340 and there are no opportunities, that's okay too.
297 00:22:38,340 --> 00:22:40,400 But just understand that there are no opportunities
298 00:22:40,400 --> 00:22:41,940 for advancement.
299 00:22:41,940 --> 00:22:45,620 There's a slow lane, a medium lane, and a fast lane.
300 00:22:45,620 --> 00:22:48,720 I personally, myself, am a fast lane sailor.
301 00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:50,720 I'm ready to go wherever you want me to go,
302 00:22:50,720 --> 00:22:52,580 whenever you want me to go,
303 00:22:52,580 --> 00:22:54,300 because I want that advancement.
304 00:22:54,300 --> 00:22:56,620 That's what drives me, right?
305 00:22:56,620 --> 00:22:58,000 Most people are medium.
306 00:22:58,000 --> 00:23:00,480 Hey, I need to look at my options.
307 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:02,200 I might be willing to be uncomfortable,
308 00:23:02,200 --> 00:23:03,440 but first let me look, right?
309 00:23:03,440 --> 00:23:05,200 I'm gonna take my time.
310 00:23:05,200 --> 00:23:07,520 Then you have slow, slow passengers, right?
311 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:12,720 slow lane and that's okay too i have stuff with my family that i need to figure out here first
312 00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:18,640 I'm going to take my time before i go into this marketplace and decide to move them and that's
313 00:23:18,640 --> 00:23:27,200 okay too advancement isn't a race but now you have opportunity right we just can't keep you in your
314 00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:31,520 third class billet your second class billet we need you to move where the country needs you to
315 00:23:31,520 --> 00:23:37,040 move right we can't keep we cannot have the issue of having vacancies across the fleet anymore
316 00:23:37,040 --> 00:23:43,160 not in this timeline, not right now, which is why applying for a wide range of billets,
317 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:47,480 if you're willing to take one of those billets that are not favorable, you have a very high
318 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:52,240 chance of advancing. One of the things we like to say is, hey, when you go into MNA,
319 00:23:52,900 --> 00:23:55,840 right, MNA is open right now, how many people are applying for billets?
320 00:23:57,580 --> 00:24:03,760 Quite a few, right? Here's a strategy. Wait till it gets closer to the end, then go look at all
321 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:07,840 looks billets and see if there's any billets that have very little
322 00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:12,600 applications or no applications are you willing to go to the place where we need
323 00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:18,280 you to go to advance to the next rank maintain an updated resume we talked
324 00:24:18,280 --> 00:24:21,760 about resume right why it's so important I hope that you guys leave here and
325 00:24:21,760 --> 00:24:26,440 you're like I'm gonna go update my resume right now apply aggressively
326 00:24:26,440 --> 00:24:32,700 again you have ten off you have ten choices in MNA to apply for billets
327 00:24:32,700 --> 00:24:37,480 choose all ten but I will caution you and I know my street will too if you
328 00:24:37,480 --> 00:24:41,980 choose the tenth billet if you choose a billet and you get chosen for it you
329 00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:46,480 will go so number ten if you're like oh I don't want to go here I don't want to
330 00:24:46,480 --> 00:24:50,500 go I don't know Norfolk probably choose that number ten if you get just in a
331 00:24:50,500 --> 00:24:55,700 Norfolk you are going to Norfolk communicate with your CCC and your
332 00:24:55,700 --> 00:24:59,620 detailer be open tell your you know talk to your detailer call your detailer and
333 00:24:59,620 --> 00:25:02,700 I'm not gonna steal their show they're gonna come up here and talk a little
334 00:25:02,700 --> 00:25:07,040 bit more about that, but communicate with your CCC. Again, tell them, hey, these are my career
335 00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:12,060 goals. This is what I want to do. This is my predicament or this is my situation. Monitor
336 00:25:12,060 --> 00:25:18,140 application cycles. Don't miss applying for billets. Don't miss applying for billets if you
337 00:25:18,140 --> 00:25:22,880 are not monitoring the application cycle. Know when it's open and know when it closes, especially
338 00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:26,760 for you guys out here because you guys are a little bit off, right? MNA opened in the States
339 00:25:26,760 --> 00:25:34,380 on Friday open for you guys on Saturday so monitor the cycles and here's the key takeaways if i can
340 00:25:34,380 --> 00:25:42,560 leave you with one thing one thing right it's knowledge is power for my anchors MCPON just had
341 00:25:42,560 --> 00:25:48,760 a meeting with all the Fleets and all the Force Master Chiefs here in DC are up in DC like a few
342 00:25:48,760 --> 00:25:54,940 weeks ago and he said it is the responsibility of the Chiefs Mess to
343 00:25:54,940 --> 00:26:01,540 understand this program and train their Sailors so we have been tasked with
344 00:26:01,540 --> 00:26:07,060 understanding BBA and SEM which is the construct under BBA to understand this
345 00:26:07,060 --> 00:26:14,740 program for my Sailors this is not it's a race right just like that that CS3
346 00:26:14,740 --> 00:26:20,260 that got the CS2 billet right underneath the CEO knowledge is powered that could be you
347 00:26:21,860 --> 00:26:25,300 so we're gonna open the floor do we have time for some questions
348 00:26:27,940 --> 00:26:28,660 sure okay
349 00:26:32,260 --> 00:26:35,700 All right everyone, thank you guys so much. We're going to pass it over to PERS40.
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