Posted on Apr 14, 2016
Lieutenant J.G - What are the duties and obligations required to be eligible for promotion in the Navy?
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Promotion to LTJG and LT are automatic after time in grade (2 years from date of commission to JG, the first of the month following reaching 2 years time in grade for LT) as long as there is no action taken to NOT promote you (i.e. if there is disciplinary action taken against you, your promotion can be withheld). I don't believe the command has to take any action to promote you. I believe your periodic (yearly) fitness report has to say "Promotable". Beyond that, there isn't much else in terms of "obligations required to be eligible for promotion". Promotion to O-4 (LCDR) is a selection board. the promotion rate to LCDR is pretty high (in the 90% range).
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LT Louis McKellar
Actually, when I was promoted to LT, it was a selection board. Of course, that was 1986 so it may have changed.
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LCDR (Join to see)
I sure wish O-4 promotion was 90%; that may be true for SWOs (and possibly submariners?) but it's definitely not the case for aviators. My community is running about 50% currently. It's getting competitive.
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CAPT (Join to see)
LCDR (Join to see) - I looked at the statistics and you are correct. 1310 and 1320's are both hovering around 50% (and yes, SWOs and SUBs are in the 90s). Interesting enough in the reserves 1315s and 1320s are in the high 90s (NFOs actually promoted 100% on this last board).
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LCDR (Join to see)
That's good information to have, sir; at least I know if I don't make O-4 on the active side I can still have a shot at it in the reserves. Right now, if an aviator isn't leaving with a top-2 FITREP in each of their first two tours, there's just about zero chance of promoting. It's to the point where some COs are encouraging everybody to request extensions or leave early so they can stagger their checkout times and get a 1/1 with a soft breakout rather than a dreadful 3/8 or the like. I hope something changes, because I don't want to see us become the type of community that backstabs throughout JOPA for the chance at the #1.
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It depends on what your command you're at on an enlisted scale you take a test as you rank the more qualms you have the better the evil the higher the test score. In officer the more qualifications you have and time in rank. Pretty much the more qualifications you have the better off you will be.
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