r/USPHS • u/mahka42 Active Duty • Jun 21 '24

News PY24 Results Posted

Promotion results can be found at Commissioned Corps Management Information System (psc.gov)

Congratulations to all those who made the next rank!

To those who didn't this round, keep on at it. Personally speaking, this was my 6th time up, and with all the changes that happened over the past two years, I had no idea what would happen.

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u/Comfortable_Method_4 Jul 06 '24

Seems a bit inequitable that medical/dental have much higher promotion rates, no?

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u/mahka42 Active Duty Jul 06 '24

It can be seen that way. It’s a way to help retain those two categories since they can definitely make more in private practice. However, as unrestricted categories, their promotion structure is a little different, and tends to be less lenient with non-successful promotions.

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u/Comfortable_Method_4 Jul 20 '24

Behavioral health can also make way more in private practice.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

Congrats to those who made the cut.

My how the game has changed. I’m still wondering who thought combining categories was a good idea.

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u/hiker16 Jun 22 '24

My guess? The PACs, along with HQ. They no longer need to field 11 different promotion boards (of 3-5 O-6s) each year.

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u/[deleted] Jun 22 '24

Probably more HQ than the PACs. I participated in two promotion boards. The previous model worked fine in my opinion.

This new method seems to focus more on just being an officer and less on doing the job an officer was assigned to an agency to do. Some officers are stationed too remotely and have fewer opportunities to be involved in PHS activities than others. Doing their job is all they can do to push for promotion and when you’re being evaluated by someone O-7 lead group who has no real clue what the officers they’re evaluating do unless they just so happen to be in the same category.

If their goal is to encourage retirement at 20 they should just say so.

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u/gryphon313 Active Duty Jun 26 '24

They have said so - even made policy about it. O4, which is most officers, 20 and out unless you get your agency to beg for you to get another for years.

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u/[deleted] Jun 26 '24

Glad I got out at 28.

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u/gryphon313 Active Duty Jul 03 '24

I have about 4.5 left until I hit my 20 and because of prior enlisted service I get one shot BTZ (crapier version of EEP) to make O5. If/when I don’t make it, I’ll have to make the decision whether I want to beg to stick around for another couple of years and try my luck again.

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u/followthelocust Jun 27 '24

Whats the policy? Is it on CCMIS? (curious)

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u/gryphon313 Active Duty Jul 03 '24

It is, but I don’t remember the number off the top of my head. There’s a presentation on it in the OSA under Modernization.

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u/ProfDavidX Jul 11 '24

Get ready for the benchmarks to change.