The White Falcon - 15.01.1993, Blaðsíða 3

Armed Forces News B
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ow your Navy life -
om a detailer’s point of view
Washington, D.C. (NES) - At any one time, about two-thirds of the
enlisted personnel in the Navy are in seagoing billets, the other third
in shore billets. To make certain that everyone gets a fair share of each
kind of duty assignment, a system of centralized detailing has been set
up by the Bureau of Naval Personnel (BuPers). Because it is a
complicated system, full details are contained in the Enlisted Transfer
Manual (TransMan, NavPers 15909). Always check with your
command career counselor and personnel office before making any
requests under this system.
All personnel, except nondesignated seamen, firemen and airmen
who are under the control of the Enlisted Personnel Management
Center in New Orleans, are assigned through BuPers detailers.
When assigning personnel, detailers have to be familiar with all six
duty type codes. These codes are used to establish an equitable
rotation of sea and shore assignment. Each of these duty types is
credited as sea, shore or neutral duty for rotational purposes. These
codes are assigned, and changed when necessary, exclusively by
BuPers.
The six types of duty are:
- Type 1 — Shore Duty: Duty performed in CONUS at land-
based activities and other CONUS activities designated as “long-
term” schooling programs. Long tom is defined as 18 or more
months; school assignments of less than 18 months are considered
Bitral duty.
| Type 2 — Sea Duty: Also known as “arduous sea duty.” This
y is performed in commissioned active-status vessels, homeported
or homebased in CONUS, which operate away from their permanent
homes for extended periods.
- Type 3 — Overseas Shore Duty: Duty performed in overseas
land-based activities, including Alaska and Hawaii, at locations
where the prescribed tour length is less than 36 months.
- Type 4 — Nonrotated Sea Duty: Duty performed in commis-
sioned active status vessels homeported overseas (OCONUS); or
performed in activities which operate away from overseas homeports
or bases for extensive periods.
- Type 5 — Neutral Duty: Duty in activities which would
normally be designated as shore duty for rotational purposes, but
where the personnel assigned are absent, for a significant length of
time, from the corporate limits of their duty station while accomplish-
ing their assigned tasks. It also includes school assignments of less
than 18 months.
- Type 6 — Preferred Overseas Shore Duty: Duty performed
in specified overseas land-based activities, including Alaska and
Hawaii, at locations having suitable dependent accommodations and
support facilities. The tours normally last at least 36 months.
For rotational purposes, duty types 1 and 6 count as shore duty
credit; types 2,3 and 4 for sea duty credit and type 5 is for neutral duty
credit.
The length of tours at sea and ashore for each rating depends
primarily on the ratio of shore billets to sea billets. To provide both
personal and command stability, every effort is made to achieve a
goal of three-year sea/shore rotation pattern. Tour lengths for all rates
and certain Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) codes are contained
in the TransMan.
Another important item the detailer looks for when a person is
within a transfer period is the member’s projected rotation date (PRD)
which estimates the tentative month and year of the next assignment.
Although the Navy will try to transfer you at a PRD, this date is
established for planning purposes and will not always be the precise
time of your reassignment. PRDs are established and modified by
BuPers.
Two important forms, the Enlisted Duty Preference (NavPers
1306/63) and the Enlisted Transfer and Special Duty Request (NavPers
1306/7), are used in the enlisted duty preference system.
For a sailor to be considered for a preferred type of duty, he or she
should complete a 1306/63, sometimes referred to as “the dream
sheet.” This allows individuals to state their preferences as to the type
of ship; homeport for sea duty, overseas duty or shore duty; and
localities preferred for overseas or shore duty. Concisely stated,
detailing is the process whereby available personnel assets are
matched up with existing Navy-wide requirements in such a manner
as best to satisfy the individual’s duty preferences. If an individual
has no duty preference form on file, his or her assignment will be to
any valid requirement.
Submission of the duty preference form is an individual’s respon-
sibility and may be submitted anytime the member’s duty preferences
change, and must be submitted when significant personal changes
occur, for instance, a change in dependency status or a change in
physical location of household goods.
F-4 hoisted to final resting place
A McDonald Douglas F-4E Phantom fighter plane was
hoisted to its final resting place outside of the Air Forces
Iceland Command Post, recently. “Theplane was sanded
and primed by 12 structural maintanence people," said
SMSgt. JJ. Lemire, Fabrication Flight Chief ,57IhFighler
Squadron. He added that the mounting of the plane
involved the Naval Air Station, Keflavik Fire Department,
as well as members of the crash and recovery crew. From
start to finish, the F-4E aircraft took six months to com-
plete. (Photo by J03 (SW) Andreas Walter)
January 15,1993
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