Chances jump for Reserve, FTS chief hopefuls

What a difference a year makes. That’s especially true for The 3,062 selected reservists eligible to earn their this year to put on chief’s anchors this year have . They’ve got nearly twice the quotas and opportunity from just a year ago. 

With 812 reserve quotas this year, the shot at chief is 26.5 percent, significantly better than the 465 quotas and 14.8 percent shot last year. quotas last year’s board had to work with. In addition, there are Also hoping the increase in opportunity is the fact there’s 90 fewer eligible sailors competing this year.

Reserve Full-Time Support opportunity ticked up rose slightly this year to 16.3, up just over a percentage point higher from last year’s 15 percent chance.

In all, it’s the best shot that reservists have had to join advance into the goat locker in at least two years, as the Navy Reserve has undergone extensive force restructuring over that time.  

This also means, with The convening of the Selected Reserve and Reserve FTSfull-time support chief’s boards Monday also kicks off in Millington, this year’s chief’s season has officially begun. 

In the selective reserve, there’s 67 ratings which advance sailors to chief petty officer. Twenty-nine will advance above the 26.5 average opportunity, 26 below. while 26 more ratings will advance sailors below that average. Two ratings have no eligible sailors and as well as no quotas. 

Still, the dark cloud to the silver lining is the fact that still this year 10 ratings won’t advance anyone at all — , meaning for the 58 sailors in those career fields, it’s already a wait until next year ballgame. But in that bad news, the encouraging sign is that those numbers are down from 14 ratings last year and 226 sailors last year who had zero chance to advance. 

The top spot this year goes to aviation maintenance administrationman, which will advance all three eligible sailors this year after two straight years of goose egg opportunity. That’s possibly a 100 percent shot; the board, however, reserves that those sailors will move up. But it’s not guaranteed as the board has the right to give back quotas if they feel any candidates aren’t fully qualified.

In addition, aviation electronic’s technicians, too have also risen from two consecutive years with no chance at chief to a 76.9 percent shot this year, with 10 of 13 eligibles moving up.

For those in the FTS community, the opportunity to move up also brightenedimproved, but only slightly but it’s the second year in a row there’s been a slight uptick in opportunity. 

This year’s 1,026 eligible FTSfull-time support E-6s nine more than last year, are competing for 167 quotas, which accounted for the percentage point rise to 16.3 percent shot.  
The 1,017 Reserve full-time support first classes are vying for one of 156 openings, a 15.04 percent selection rate. Last year, 14.89 percent of FTS E-6's got their chief's anchors.

Boatswain’s mate was again one of the top performing ratings among the 22 in the FTS community. Their chance more than doubled: as They’ll advance 13 of 24 candidates, increasing opportunity to 54.2 percent, up from 25 percent last year.

As with their Selected Reserve counterparts, the AZ rating saw their shot improve from last year’s nil goose egg to a one in four chance, with 5 of 20 slated to move up.