It's tougher to make chief in the rReserve than on active duty, according to quotas — the number of available spots — released by Navy Personnel Command.

The numbers were provided as the fiscal 2016 Selected Reserve and Full-Time Support Chief Petty Officer Selection Board convened May 18 to review the records of 4,169 E-6's who qualified for this year's board.

The 3,152 selected reservists will compete for a total of 465 quotas — a 14.75 percent shot at moving into the chief's mess this year, up from a 12.96 percent opportunity last year

For those in the FTS community, the opportunity to move up also improved, but only slightly. The 1,017 rReserve full-time support first classes are vying for one of 156 openings, a 15.04 percent selection rate. Last year, 14.89 percent of FTS E-6's got their chief's anchors.

Last June, in the active component, eligible sailors had almost a 1 in 4 chance — 24.1 percent — of making chief, which was down slightly from a 26.7 percent chance the year before. And personnel officials tell Navy Times that despite normal, slight fluctuation, they expect this year's active-duty first classes to have about the same advancement opportunity as last year.

The bad news on the rReserve front is that 226 selected reserve E-6's in 14 ratings already know they'll have to wait until next year; there are no quotas to advance these sailors to chief. For seven of these ratings, it's the second year in a row that they've been frozen out.

In the FTS ranks, there's only one rating with zero opportunity. Culinary specialist has no quotas this fiscal year, after just one available spot in fiscal 2015.

About Mark D. Faram

Mark D. Faram is a former reporter for Navy Times. He was a senior writer covering personnel, cultural and historical issues. A nine-year active duty Navy veteran, Faram served from 1978 to 1987 as a Navy Diver and photographer.

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