FEDREC Process- 1LT to CPT?

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:08:50 -0400

My promotion has been assigned to a scroll for about a month now but still says 0 days in approval process. Anyone recently promoted that can shed light on the timeline would be appreciated. I’ve been told it’s taking 180-270 days right now. That still accurate?

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 2 at 2020 3:27 PM

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 15:27:33 -0400

sounds about right. There are several wickets the packet has to go through in the process. and any one of them could be a bottle neck, especially with this covid crap going on. also, I've been told, that certain stages in the process don't process onesies and twosies, they wait until they have 25-50 packets and do them in a bunch, so if yours is the first packet in the queue it may sit there for a week or two and no action is taken. Guy in my unit got promoted to CPT last year and the process took him nearly 18 months. Sucks but it's a nice back pay check when it finally comes. Good thing is they "usually" back date your orders to around the date you were selected.

Response by 1LT Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 2 at 2020 4:16 PM

1LT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 16:16:12 -0400

I'm in the same boat as well. State req went through, but the fedrec is currently 158 days awaiting "jag approval" in the process.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 2 at 2020 6:45 PM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 18:45:15 -0400

I've been checking new MILPERs daily as of late. I submitted my packet at the end of Feb. The last communication I got was my packet was sent upward to the Sec Army (May if I recall) As well, I stumbled upon a Milper directing all CPT promotions to follow "fully qualified" standards per regulations (I interpret that to mean skip a "board" process of selection, no flags, with 4 year degree, and BOLC complete give those TIG a GO).

July was MAJ promotion MILPER, before that was LTC, and I think Dec/JAN were the COL's.

The last CPT promotion selection MILPER was mid September 2019.

So I think we are looking at two more weeks until we should start to worry.

Response by CPT Private RallyPoint Member made Dec 23 at 2020 11:14 AM

CPT Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:14:55 -0500

All I can say is free labor. The process is broken. All the FEDREC process does is slow your date of rank down for future promotions.
Think of it this way: 6 months in FEDREC process to get CPT another 6 months once you get on the scroll for MAJ, another 6 months when you’re up for LTC, another 6 months when you’re up COL... that adds up to be 2 years of lost time as a COL of you make it that far.