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Old 01-07-2017, 01:58 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by CTT1(SW)Griffin View Post
You're not eligible to take the Petty Officer's exam until you've been rated, which doesn't happen until you fully complete A-school. Until that point, you're just a Seaman (SN, not ITSN). So until you graduate from A-school, you're not eligible to take the exam.

Upon completion of A-school, and assuming you meet all other requirements, you would then be allowed to take the exam during the next cycle. The exam happens twice a year and advancement rates for IT3 are very good right now, so I wouldn't sweat it too much. Just do your time, finish your A-school, and it shouldn't be much longer after that.

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ITs fall under the ATF umbrella and follow MILPERSMAN 1510-030, which states that they are advanced upon graduation of A school to the paygrade of E-4 provided that they have the 6 months TIR at E3, and do not take an examination. For the purpose of advancement, TIR also does not strictly mean that you are rated, it means you are at that paygrade. If it meant rated you would not be able to cross-rate at your paygrade, you would have to start over from scratch. So hypothetically if you advanced to E3 the day you arrived at A school and where there 6 months, then at the end of A school you just received you rate, but you have 6 months TIR.

Anyways back to the question, to quote the article page 9, "Sailors are advanced to E-4 after serving 6 months TIR. Participation in the Navy-wide examination is not required. Advancement to E-4 will be on the 16th of the month after 6 months of service as an E-3. TIR will be established per reference (h)." Ref H is just the normal TIR adjustment for when it rolls back to based on the month advanced.

So to answer the question, if you enlisted as an E-3, and your school is 6 months long, then at the end of A-school you will be eligible to advance to E-4 without taking the examinations. However in my experience if it doesn't get processed at your A school because of departure dates, you need to immediately talk to your new command about it as soon as you arrive because your Admin is almost certainly not tracking on it. And then you come and ask about it 6 months later and we didn't know about it and it turns into a huge freaking mess.
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