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Force Sustainment Warrant Officer News Letter
By CW5 Craig E. Shaw, FSD Warrant Officer Branch Chief
Assignment Methodology
Our assignment methodology is based on the 36 month default in our TOPMIS system
and the Army regulation (AR 614-100) stating normal time on station is 48 months. We use this
as our left and right limits. However, there are always exceptions to any rule. Officers in
deploying units are normally afforded the opportunity to stay to about the 48 month mark, as
long as there has not been a backfill identified or there is a critical requirement to fill. In most
instances, a CW2 going in to a CW2 position will either be promoted or in a promotable status at
the end of the 4 years and would need to PCS to a more developmental position. Additionally,
Officers are required to manage their own careers and consider future requests like high school
stabilization for a dependant. It's hard to approve a high school stabilization request for
someone who has already spent 4 years on station, making total time on station almost 6 years.
HRC can, if consideration warrants, PCS Officers at the 24 month mark and is usually done to
position family members for the high school years (36-48 months).
The assignment process is date driven and there are "cycles" that Assignment Officers
operate in. As an example, the current cycle is to 30 Apr 11. This means that anyone who
arrived on station on or before 30 Apr 08 is now a projected loss and should be contacted by
their Assignment Officer for options. If an Officer wants to remain an additional year (48
months), there is not a backfill identified, and the Assignment Officer does not have a critical
requirement to fill, the available date can be adjusted to accommodate the Officer to remain. I
say 48 months but this is an approximation and is based also on current/gaining unit’s
deployment cycle. We have a goal of having replacements in before a unit's MRE, pending a
deployment.
DA Pam 600-3 outlines Warrant Officer career patterns and is utilized heavily by
promotion boards to form a mental picture of how a Warrant Officer should look. Current
strength of senior Warrants dictates that board members select those “Best Qualified” Officers
with demonstrated potential. Warrant Officers display their demonstrated potential by filling
positions of increased responsibility and performing once assigned. Diversity in assignments
also demonstrates potential. Diversity, in this instance, is not intended to mean filling different
positions on the same installation. The cut between “Fully Qualified” and “Best Qualified” can
be a very narrow margin. As an example, two Officers who have excelled in their positions,
deployed, and attended their PME and civilian schooling. One has professionally
developmental positions at Ft. Hood, Germany, and is now at Ft. Stewart, and the other Officer
who has held professionally developmental positions in Germany (these are just examples).
The one Officer has demonstrated that he/she can perform wherever assigned, where the other
Officer has demonstrated he/she can perform in Germany. As competitive as the senior
positions will get, what will be the cut line between Best and Fully qualified with everything
(PME, civil schooling, deployment) else being equal.
Assignment Officers are also charged with “tour equity”. Tour equity means to ensure
ALL Officers get there turn in a deploying force. Additionally, tour equity is creating the
opportunity for Officers to fill positions in a preferred duty location. The best example of this is
Hawaii. With the limited number of positions in Hawaii, it is not tour equity to grant an IPCOT (in
place consecutive overseas assignment) for Officers in those positions, allowing them to remain
for 6, 9, or 12 years. For this reason, we have adopted the FSTE (foreign service tour

extension) as the means to make the Hawaii assignment equal to other (CONUS) assignments.
The same is true for all other OCONUS locations. We have many Officers that want Germany,
Japan, Alaska, and Hawaii and by requesting Officers submit an FSTE to take them to 48
months time on station vs. an IPCOT, it provides those assignment opportunities for other
Officers (selfless service).
This has been an attempt to explain our assignment methodology. I hope by explaining,
this will make Officers consider where they are in their careers and plan accordingly for them to
achieve their goals. I also hope it identifies when you’ll be available to PCS thus, eliminating
many emails and telephone calls from Officers who are leaning forward just a little too far.
Realize that once your identified as a projected loss, your Assignment Officer will be in contact.
FY11 CW3, CW4, AND CW5 PROMOTION SELECTION BOARDS
Assignment Officers have received many inquires referencing the FY11 promotion
board. Milper Message 10-267 addressed zones of consideration, selective continuation,
evaluation reports, correspondence to the president of the board, DAPMIS photographs, use of
My Board File, Officers with approved separation dates, and a summary of critical dates. The
promotion board was originally scheduled to convene 19 January 2011 but the decision was
made at the Department of the Army level to move the convene date to 25 April 2011. Milper
Message 11-014 sited that this is the first step in tailoring times-in-grade that support thorough
technical skill acquisition and that ongoing analysis of timing of WO promotions in support of
career development and end strength management will produce future year adjustments to
promotion zones of consideration. The message also stated that all administrative suspenses
and procedures addressed in Milper Message 10-267 remained unchanged. This refers to the
thru dates and dates of submission of OERs, closing date of the My Board File, OMPF
corrections, and new photos. The only Officers being impacted by the date change are those
Officers that had approved separation dates between 20 April 2011 and 25 July 2011. Due to
the change in the convene date, therefore changing the 90 day window, these Officers will now
not be considered for promotion. Several have submitted request to have their separation date
changed but without substantiated justification and due to current strength, these requests have
been denied.
In preparation for future boards, Officers MUST maintain their OPMF. The OMPF is
pulled from iPerms to make up the My Board File. We recommend that Officers initially review
their OMPF within 1 year of being accessed and every 6-12 months after that. Refer to iPerms
FAQ tab on the iPerms web site for authorized documents and Milper Message 10-322 for the
correct process for updating your OMPF. Previously, Officers would email or mail documents to
their Assignment Officer, or to Ms. Kyser, to update their file. This is no longer the correct
process. There are some instances where an Officer, due to duty location, has no personnel
support and in these instances, we can and will assist. Bottom line: don’t wait until you’re in the
zone of consideration to review and try and correct your file.
Branch Chief and OD Warrant Officer Career Manager (890A, 913A, 914A, 948
series):
CW5 Craig Shaw

(502) 613-6232
DSN: 983-6232
Email: craig.shaw@conus.army.mil
Mailing Address:
U.S. ARMY HUMAN RESOURCES COMMAND
ATTN: AHRC-OPC-W (CW5 SHAW)
1600 SPEARHEAD DIVISION AVENUE
DEPT# 2
FORT KNOX, KY 40122-5202

AG Warrant Officer Assignments Officer Update
By CW4 Kevin W. Smock, AG Warrant Officer Assignments Officer
Greetings fellow AG Quite Professionals! Once again, thanks for what you do! The Army,
Commanders, and Soldier certainly appreciate your continuous dedication and sacrifice, keep
up the great work!
Congratulations to our January 2011 Adjutant General Warrant Officer selectees.
SFC Nelson Almodovar 420A
SFC Laquiesha Andrews 420A
SFC Dana Forfang 420A
SSG Dong Lee 420A
SSG Richard Ly 420A
SFC Abyee Mallory 420A
MSG Shwanda Mizner 420A
SSG Pedro Ochoa-Gonzalez 420A
SSG Sherab Wangden 420C
SGM Frank Suri 420C
Assignments.
- Sometimes it‘s difficult and challenging to balance the CSAs manning guidance with a WO‘s
preference. My intent is to fully consider Soldier and Family needs, and I assure you I will strive
to support your professional development, career path, and balance your preference with an
objective of supporting Army requirements based on current manning guidance.
- Everyone should recognize as professional Soldiers we must all share the burden of
deployments and provide relief to those who have multiple deployments in TOE assignments.
Those of you serving in TDA assignments must take a hard look at where you want to be
assigned next with the understanding that it will be to a TOE unit slated for an upcoming
deployment.
- Time on station. Regulatory guidance is 48 months, TOPMIS Year Month Available (YMAV) is
default to 36 months, and an officer could be considered to move at 24 months. The aim is to
not have a PCS before 36 months; there are exceptions to this, for instance if you are
nominated for a special duty assignment. Korea is a different tour length based on the type of
tour you elect to serve (Accompanied Command Sponsorship, Assignment Incentive Pay (AIP)
or unaccompanied tour).
Defend and Serve!
CW4 Kevin W. Smock
POC Info:
Army Human Resources Command
ATTN: AHRC-OPC-W (CW4 Smock)
1600 Spearhead Division Avenue, Department 215
Fort Knox, KY 40122

(502) 613-6189 (DSN 983)
QM Warrant Officer Assignments Officer Update
By CW4 John Beck, QM Warrant Officer Assignments Officer
Ladies and Gentlemen,
For those Officers just returning from deployments, welcome back! For those of you still
deployed or preparing to deploy, I wish you a safe and speedy return. Keep up the hard work
and continue making the Warrant Officer Corps proud!
I’d like to address a few trends that were observed while we prepared Officers’ records for the
upcoming promotion board:
• Civilian education transcripts not present in iPerms (Education Folder). Officers can
scan Official Copies of their transcripts and send them directly to iPerms for addition to
their Education Folder.
• Date of last physical older than 1 year. With the establishment of the PHA, it’s an annual
requirement versus every five years. We cannot update this data field; MEDPROS
updates your ORB.
• Inconsistencies between Section VIII from the ORB and Officers’ photo for the ICMCS,
ACMCS and NDSM.
• No supporting certificates for NATO awards and decorations in iPerms’ Commendatory
Folder.
• NCOERs, 1059s from NCOES and Certificates of Course Completion awarded as an
NCO which do not award an ASI/SQI but which were still in Officers’
Performance/Education Folders.
• Last minute attempts to add/remove documents from iPerms causing potential for
duplicate/missing documents
BLUF, don’t wait to the last minute to start reviewing your files and engage your S-1s early on to
assist with preparing for the Board. They are your first line of defense and can resolve 95% of
ORB deficiencies and document additions/removals.
There will be plenty of opportunities to deploy as an individual augmentee this coming summer
ISO Joint Manning Document – Worldwide Individual Augmentee System (JMD-WIAS). These
are very unique opportunities that allow Warrant Officers to deploy and serve in a Joint
environment which most of us will never get a chance to do. Currently, we have the following
ongoing taskers that still need to be filled:
• 920A - CW3 with a LAD of APR ‘11
• 920A – CW2 with a LAD of MAR ‘11
• 920A – CW2 with a LAD of MAY ‘11
• 920A – CW2 with a LAD of OCT ‘11
• 920B – CW2 with a LAD of APR ‘11
• 920B – CW2 with a LAD of MAY ‘11
• 920B – CW2(P)/CW3 with a LAD of JUN ’11 (expect to see a requirement to send 10
Officers to support this requirement)

How does this affect you? BLUF, we will identify Officers who meet the minimum requirements
(medically deployable, possess a secret clearance and are not DWELL restricted) and prioritize
the Officers based on number of previous deployments and amount of DWELL accumulated.
IOT remain competitive for future promotions and to shoulder some of the deployment burden,
we will ask Officers to support these taskers. HRC will make every effort to minimize the impact
to the Officer’s unit of assignment but, depending on the reaction time, this is not always
possible. Please contact me sooner than later if you are interested in supporting any of these
ongoing taskers and I will provide you with more information. Don’t worry, if you don’t contact
us, we’ll contact you. BTW, this would also be a good time to verify that the DWELL annotated
on your ORB is accurate. See your S-1 to have it adjusted since HRC cannot make any
changes to it.
Some of you may have recently received a note from me stating that you are in the window for a
potential reassignment. This initial contact is based on your current Time on Station (TOS) or
your DEROS. Please respond back to me as I’ve requested in order for me to promptly provide
you with assignment opportunities for the upcoming year. If I don’t receive a response back, I
am forced to guess what your intentions are and, so far, I’m batting a big fat zero! Please send
me your responses sooner than later so we can start locking Officers into their follow-on
assignments. The following are some HOT assignments that need to be filled ISO an upcoming
deployment or are high visibility positions (this listing is not all inclusive, just some assignments
that I am projecting will be more difficult to get Officers to volunteer for):
• 920A CW2/CW3 – Korea - APR and MAY ‘11
• 920A CW4/CW5 – Germany – Summer ‘11
• 920A CW4 – DA IG position in DC
• 920B CW2 – Ft Drum – NLT APR ’11 (total of 3 positions)
• 920B CW2 – Ft Campbell – NLT May ’11 (Total of 4 positions)
• 921A CW2/CW3 – Germany – June ‘11
• 921A CW5 – Germany – ASAP
• 922A CW2/CW3/CW4 who are Airborne qualified
• 922A CW2 – Alaska – ASAP
• 922A CW2 – Ft Sill – ASAP
• 922A CW5 – Italy – Summer ‘11
We continue to encourage Officers to request their respective PME whenever the opportunity
presents itself. We understand that with the current deployment cycles, MRXs and reset
operations, it is very difficult to find that “right time” to punch out for a couple weeks/months IOT
knock it out. We’re here to help you with that. We will routinely scrub our population to
determine those Officers who are considered “backlog” and make contact with you to try to
determine when would be a good time to attend. We have found it to be convenient right after a
deployment or in conjunction with a PCS to attend PME. As we reassign Officers this coming
year, we will attempt to coincide your reassignment dates with a PME class dates that facilitates
your attendance enroute to your next duty assignment. BLUF, you need to attend PME within
the recommended time periods based on your current dates of rank IOT remain competitive for
promotion.
I’d like to thank all of you for being patient with me as I get my feet wet and get my bearings in
this new position. It has been a challenge but it has also been a privilege supporting all of you
so far and I am looking forward to serving along side of you in the months to come.

QM Warrant Officer Career Manager:
CW4 John Beck
(502) 613-6224
DSN: 983-6224
Email: john.p.beck@conus.army.mil or john.p.beck@mail.us.army.mil
Mailing Address:
U.S. ARMY HUMAN RESOURCES COMMAND
ATTN: AHRC-OPC-W (CW4 BECK)
1600 SPEARHEAD DIVISION AVENUE
DEPT# 2
FORT KNOX, KY 40122-5202

OD Warrant Officer Assignments Officer Update
By CW4 Charles Lewis, OD (915A, 915E, 191A) Warrant Officer Assignments
Officer
On behalf of Ordnance Branch, HRC, we welcome the new accessions and congratulate the
newly promoted. We, in the Sustainment Division, seek to capitalize on successes already
achieved, and continue the development of valued members of the Corps, (New Accession
Warrant). HRC has a long history of being a part of mentoring officers that have made this
nation strong and Army strong. Sometimes it’s difficult and challenging to balance Army
requirements with Soldiers' preferences, as stated before. My intent is not to make life hard on
soldiers and families, and I assure you I will strive to support your professional, developmental
career path, and balance your preference with the objective of supporting the Army
requirements based on current manning guidance.
Nomination and Submission Process
There are a few vacancies to fill that have report dates in the upcoming summer and fall 2011;
assignments will be filled as I work through some obstacles before publishing RFOs.
Remember that the current over strength of 915s CW4s means that our CW4s will be filling the
majority of the positions/assignments, so be prepared. The goal is to provide some stabilization
and not move before 36 months TOS, but the norm is between 36-48 months time on station
(TOS). The exceptions to the 36-48 month TOS are assignments and Korea. These are
automatically one year tours but Officers can request Command Sponsorship with an incentive
of $300 per month depending on area and length of tour.
Some of the critical assignments to fill this month;
Joint Manning Document Assignments: (JMDs) all assignment is located in theater.
AC/RC Assignments:
SATMO Assignment: all assignments are located in Central America (you must be able to
understand and speak Spanish).
Although all nominations must be submitted and verified through HRC we are encouraging
warrants and the units that have warrants interested or know of officers that are in the
assignment to contact their chain of command if they know of a deserving officer. Each
nomination should consist of a completed nomination form with 4187, a point of contact, and
telephone number. Please do not include ORB or award certificates in your submission packet.
PROFESSIONAL MILITARY EDUCATION (PME):
Warrant Officer Advance Course (WOAC) – (February, March, April and July) is full and (May
and June) seats are quickly becoming full. Remember, enrollment for the course is by order of
merit (CW3s have priority then CW2 (P) s then CW2s). Please submit your 4187 for your
desired class. If you cannot make the scheduled course dates due to deployment or
OPTEMPO mission requirements, let me know soonest so that others may fill the vacancy.
All seats are filled for 919A WOAC for FY 2011.
Warrant Officer Staff Course (WOSC) and Warrant Officer Senior Staff Course (WOSSC) –
Continue to submit for these courses as there are various dates available. Please note that the
course seats fill quickly as all WOs are requesting seats, not just (915E).

Once again, Thank you for what you do in support of our Army, our Corps, and especially,
Soldiers and Families. Keep up the great work OD professionals, Serve and Defend!
OD Warrant Officer Career Manager (915A, 915E, 919A):
CW4 Charles Lewis
(502) 613-6227
DSN: 983-6227
Email: charles.e.lewis1@conus.army.mil
Mailing Address:
U.S. ARMY HUMAN RESOURCES COMMAND
ATTN: AHRC-OPC-W (CW4 LEWIS)
1600 SPEARHEAD DIVISION AVENUE
DEPT# 2
FORT KNOX, KY 40122-5202

TC Warrant Officer Assignments Officer Update
By CW4 Marcus Griffin, TC Warrant Officer Assignments Officer
Fellow Transporters,
Welcome to the first addition of the TC newsletter which focuses on hot topics and jobs for the
Warrant Officer Transportation Branch.
Hot Topics –
PME –Professional military education (PME) is progressive levels of military education that
prepares military officers for leadership. Unfortunately, within the transportation field overall we
are at 14% of Warrant Officers missing their correct level of PME. Unfortunately, in order to be
considered for premier jobs the officer’s PME must be up to date. You will need to immediately
submit a DA4187 signed by a 05 in your command and submitted to Ms. Grace Kyser.
Update Files – Based on the board file scrubs there was so many that had many issues with
their ORBs, FICHE, and DA Photo. Understand your ORB is a working document and needs to
be updated frequently. The FICHE needs to be scrubbed throughout the year since getting new
documents updated and deleting unnecessary documents is the most time consuming. Your DA
Photo should be updated with your current rank and awards. Many officers waited too late to
update these areas, which some of your requests did not make it in your files. Here are the
major concerns during the board files.
- Civilian education transcripts not present in iPerms (Education Folder). Officers can
scan Official Copies of their transcripts and send them directly to iPerms for addition to
their Education Folder.
- Date of last physical older than 1 year. With the establishment of the PHA, it’s an annual
requirement versus every five years. We cannot update this data field; MEDPROS
updates your ORB.
- Inconsistencies between Section VIII from the ORB and Officers’ photo for the ICMCS,
ACMCS and NDSM.
- No supporting certificates for NATO awards and decorations in iPerms’ Commendatory
Folder.
- NCOERs, 1059s from NCOES and Certificates of Course Completion awarded as an
NCO which do not award an ASI/SQI but which were still in Officers’
Performance/Education Folders.
- Last minute attempts to add/remove documents from iPerms causing potential for
duplicate/missing documents
Hot Jobs – These jobs must be filled with reporting dates during the summer 2011 and if you
are interested please contact me.
In order to request for one of the below positions you must meet these prerequisites
1) Must have 30 or months time on station (TOS) or close to your DEROS.
2) Must meet the rank specified

Marine Deck Officer 880A
Ft Rucker, AL W2
Korea W3
Germany W3
Aberdeen, MD W3 (Senior)
Hawaii W3
Marine Engineer Officer 881A
Ft Rucker, AL W2
Hawaii W4
KWAJALEIN W3
Detroit, MI W5
Germany W4
Mobility Officers 882A
Ft Bliss, TX W3 (Junior)
Ft Rucker, AL W2
Italy W4
Ft Hood W3 (Senior) or W4
If you are an 880A or 881A trying to transfer branches and needing a Letter of Release (LOR)
please wait to submit until after the board results come out. Currently, your MOS will not be
eliminated any time soon so please continue to do your job until an official message is
generated and dispersed.
If you are a WO1/CW2 882A and are interested in going to the Rangers please contact me.
Congratulations to these new accessions that were selected into the Transportation Warrant
Officer Corps (January 2011).
Marine Deck Officer 880A
Blue, Kyle
Guidry, Eddie
Oliver, Patrick
Marine Engineer Officer 881A
Hendrix, Jeffrey
Waters, Louis
Mobility Officers 882A
Mosley, Ketura
Rivera, Axel
Thurman, Danny
Wolf, Jeremiah
Kerby, David
Baldwin, Jovon
Bartunek, Derek
Hernandez, Joel
We continue to encourage Officers to request their respective PME whenever the opportunity
presents itself. We understand that with the current deployment cycles, MRXs and reset

operations, it is very difficult to find that “right time” to punch out for a couple weeks/months IOT
knock it out. We’re here to help you with that. We will routinely scrub our population to
determine those Officers who are considered “backlog” and make contact with you to try to
determine when would be a good time to attend. We have found it to be convenient right after a
deployment or in conjunction with a PCS to attend PME. As we reassign Officers this coming
year, we will attempt to coincide your reassignment dates with a PME class dates that facilitates
your attendance enroute to your next duty assignment. BLUF, you need to attend PME within
the recommended time periods based on your current dates of rank IOT remain competitive for
promotion.
I’d like to thank all of you for being patient with me as I get my feet wet and get my bearings in
this new position. It has been a challenge but it has also been a privilege supporting all of you
thus far. Please keep in mind as I assign you it is all about timing and trying to ensure you get
to the next level with diversity in your career. You may not always get what you are requesting,
but understand where I assign you gives you the best chances for future promotion. If you have
any questions, concerns, or need some professional advice please feel free to contact me.
Thanks again for your support and time.
TC Warrant Officer Career Manager:
CW4 Marcus Griffin
(502) 613-6226
DSN: 983-6226
Email: marcus.griffin@us.army.mil or marcus.griffin@mail.us.army.mil
Mailing Address:
U.S. ARMY HUMAN RESOURCES COMMAND
ATTN: AHRC-OPC-W (CW4 GRIFFIN)
1600 SPEARHEAD DIVISION AVENUE
DEPT# 2
FORT KNOX, KY 40122-5202

WO Branch Human Resource Specialist Update
By Ms. Grace Kyser
Professional Military Education (PME)
We’ve recently had additional classes added to the FY11 schedule for the Warrant Officer Staff
Course (WOSC) and Warrant Officer Senior Staff Course (WOSSC). We will prioritize filling
WOSC by enrolling Officers who currently hold the rank of CW5, CW4 and who are in a CW3
(P) status. We will prioritize filling WOSSC by enrolling Officers who currently hold the rank of
CW5 and who are in a CW4 (P) status. Approximately 120 days prior to the class report date,
we’ll assign non priority Officers. In most instances, we will try to schedule an Officers TDY en
route to their next duty assignment. For those Officers not in the window to PCS, please submit
an approved DA Form 4187, requesting a class. The dates for the courses are listed below:
WOSC
Class 501, 10 Jul 11 – 12 Aug 11
Class 502, 14 Aug 11 – 17 Sep 11
WOSSC
Class 501, 5 Jun 11 – 1 Jul 11
If you are looking to attend WOAC, WOSC or WOSSC in FY12, the schedule for these classes
should be approved around April or May. I should be able to provide you with dates for these
classes around this time.
OMPF UPDATES
We do not require an original copy of your transcript once you’ve completed your degree. A
clear scanned copy of the official transcript which must state the degree and when it was
awarded will suffice.
Grace Kyser
Human Resources Specialist
Warrant Officer Branch
Force Sustainment Division
(502) 613-6230/DSN 983-6230
e-mail: grace.kyser@us.army.mil
Want to attend WOAC, WOSC or WOSSC? go to
http://usawocc.army.mil/woes/index.htm for information.
Our mailing address:
Commander
Human Resources Command
ATTN: AHRC-OPC-W (Ms. Grace Kyser)
1600 Spearhead Division Avenue, Dept #232
Fort Knox, KY 40122-5504