Navy Advancement: 20,712 sailors will advance to E-4, E-5, E-6
May 21, 2009 by Tariq under World News
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The Navy will advance 20,712 sailors this week to petty officer first, second and third class.
A total of 85,975 sailors passed the advancement exams in March, making the overall chance to put on a new crow this cycle just over 24 percent.
Check navytimes.com on Thursday for the list.
Spring petty officer quotas
If there’s bad news this cycle, it’s at E-6, where opportunity dropped to 9.59 percent — 2,787 of 29,075 test-passers will get the nod. That’s the lowest chance to advance to first class in more than a decade; 9.41 percent moved up in the fall 1998 cycle.
The good news at E-6 is for six ratings that will advance all test-passers: Arabic- and Persian-speaking cryptologic technician (interpretive), intelligence specialist, legalman, special warfare operator, and special warfare boat operator all have 100 percent opportunity.
But the news isn’t so good for other linguists; no Spanish-speaking CTIs will advance. Also, personnel specialist and gas turbine system technician (mechanical) will advance less than 1 percent of test-passers.
E-5 advancement is 22 percent, down 0.6 percentage points this cycle. That’s the lowest since the spring cycle of 2006, when 19.8 percent advanced. Of 34,929 test-passers, 7,686 will sew on their second stripe.
Eleven ratings advanced all their test-passers at this level, five of them in the cryptology community: two types of CTIs, along with CTs in the network, collections and technical service ratings.
Also in the 100 percent advancement group are surface nuclear electronics technicians, explosive ordnance disposal technicians, intelligence specialists, legalmen, machinery repairmen and Navy divers.
Spanish-and Russian-speaking CTIs will advance no one, while aviation machinist’s mate and personnel specialist will advance less than 1 percent of test-passers.
Advancing into the petty officer ranks got a little better this cycle as opportunity rose nearly 3 percentage points to 46.58, up from 43.93 percent last fall. Of the 21,971 sailors who passed their third-class exams, 10,234 will put on a crow.
In 43 ratings, all test-passers will advance. No rating that had sailors pass its test will fail to advance sailors, although personnel specialist will advance less than 1 percent, with just five of 570 eligible sailors getting to sew on a crow.
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