Marine officials are inputting data the old fashioned way after Due to technical difficulties with Marine Online, hundreds of officers were unaware they had been selected for career designation were not notified of their selection. Marine officials have now created a work-around, and selected officers have until Dec. 20 to accept or decline the offer.
The second Officer Retention Board No. 2 offered career designation to 564 officers when it convened Sept. 25, according to manpower officials, but nNone were notified, due to the glitch technical troubles with Marine Online. Marines offered career designation must accept or decline after receiving notification.
Officers can now find out if they were selected — and accept or decline the offer — Selectees can must now accept or decline by way of an online questionnaire found on the Manpower and Reserve Affairs website at https://www.manpower.usmc.mil/application. From there, they should select the survey entitled "FY15 ORB Number 2 Career Designation Acceptance/Declination." CAC certification is not required to access the site.
Only officers selected for career designation have been granted access to the questionnaire. Those who can't get in were not selected.
For those who were selected, the deadline for accepting or declining career designation has been extended through Dec. 20, but officers are encouraged to make their decision as early as possible. An officer who does not take action by the deadline will be is considered to have declined the offer and will not be reconsidered. Those who accept career designation will incur a 24-month active-duty service obligation that will conclude Oct. 1, 2017.
Career designation is a force-shaping tool the Corps uses to retain only the best-qualified officers and ensure the active-component officer population for each rank and year of service matches the promotion opportunities en route to major. It is one of most competitive processes in a junior officer's career. Those selected are likely to have careers through retirement, if they remain in good standing.
Those eligible for a career designation board include all first lieutenants with at least 540 days of observable fitness report time in their current primary military occupational specialty.
Because the questionnaire portal cannot automatically input data, diary entries, manpower officials will manually change end of active service dates after the deadline has passed. do so after the deadline has passed. Officers who accept career designation will have to have to log into Marine Online to view whether or not their EAS has changed. This is not different than the previous process of notifications process, officials said.
Selected officers whose active service expires before the deadline should immediately contact Plans, Programs and Systems Support at Manpower and Reserve Affairs, officials said.
Career designation is a force-shaping tool the Corps uses to retain only the best-qualified officers and ensure the active-component officer population for each rank and year of service matches the promotion opportunities en route to major. It is one of most competitive processes in a junior officer's career. Those selected are likely to have careers through retirement, if they remain in good standing.
Those eligible for a career designation board include all first lieutenants with at least 540 days of observable fitness report time in their current primary military occupational specialty.
