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Military personnel: factors affecting approval time for officer appointments / U.S. Government Accountability Office.
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- Government document
- Author/Creator:
- United States. Government Accountability Office, author, issuing body.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Department of Defense--Personnel management.
- United States.
- United States. Department of Defense.
- United States--Armed Forces--Personnel management.
- United States--Armed Forces--Officers.
- United States--Armed Forces--Promotions.
- Armed Forces--Officers.
- Armed Forces--Personnel management.
- Armed Forces--Promotions.
- Personnel management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations
- Other Title:
- GAO-19-527R Officer appointments
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2019.
- Summary:
- To function effectively, the Department of Defense (DOD) must have sufficient numbers of qualified officers. As of December 2018, over 360,000 officers were serving in the military services' active and reserve components. Officers must be appointed to a service, component, and pay grade. "Original appointments" are made to new officers, such as those who graduate from a military academy, as well as to existing officers who transfer to another service or between the active and reserve components within a service. A "promotion" is an appointment of an officer to a higher pay grade. States promote National Guard officers, but these promotions must be federally recognized for officers to wear the insignia or to receive the pay of their new grade when under federal orders. DOD's process for approving officer appointments relies on appointment packages compiled and submitted to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) by the military services. This report describes: (1) the processes used for approving original appointments and federal recognition of National Guard promotions; (2) the number of original appointment and federal recognition scrolls that were approved from fiscal years 2017 and 2018; and (3) factors that affect the time it takes to approve officer appointments.
- Notes:
- "June 27, 2019."
- "GAO-19-527R"--Page 1.
- In scope of the U.S. Government Publishing Office Catalog and Indexing Program (C&I) and Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF caption (GAO, viewed June 30, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1106366905
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