Posted on Mar 7, 2021
I'm a 2LT in the Army Reserves, I've completed BOLC, met the time requirement but I haven't been promoted to 1LT. How should I proceed?
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I'm a 2LT in the Army Reserves, I've completed BOLC, met the time requirement (18 months) but I still haven't been promoted to 1LT. This is an automatic promotion so I'm not sure what the issue could be or how to address this and our Unit Administrator was not able to help. Does anyone know what I need to do?
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Make sure ATRRS reflects you completing BOLC, ensure iPERMS has your 1059 and DD214, verify you are not flagged, and it if all are good then email an inquiry to the HRC Army Reserve Promotions section. The Adobe Flash expiration might be holding up something on HRC’s side of the house. Be prepared to email them your 1059 and DD 214 as well.
I had a similar issue with my promotion because I was missing documents in IPERMS. I visited my local RPAC office and they were able to tell me what I needed and upload it to IPERMS for me. Then my promotion went through.
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Nothing is automatic in the military. More of a hurry up and wait mentality.
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That all said, it is automatic so long as your oath of office, 4 year college degree, and BOLC graduation certificate, along with not being flagged are all on the visual radar of those in the promotion process see them.
Many come to learn the dis-functional record systems the army operates under. As a company commander I was FLAGGED RED and un-deployable because I kept showing up on the UMR as non branch qualified, and never mind the fact my BOLC 1059 is in iPerm's
The army kept moving along. I got to 1LT automatically and I didn't care. If I got deployed someone would make sure to fix it. Then it occurred to me, I had to personally fix it if I wanted to see CPT. So I did.
I learned in the process this all started back at the School House at Ft Lee because some of my classmates were in the same boat, and some weren't. So it probably mattered who processed our graduation packets at any given time.
It wasn't an easy fix to get it to flow down to the UMR correctly so that readiness reporting systems would stop reporting me as RED.