Posted on Apr 23, 2014
ASIs: Needed or should be treated as any other school?
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Do we need to annotate that we went to a school with ASIs? Or should these schools just be like any other schools and just annotated on our ERBs and ORBs if over 80 hours? What makes the distinction between what schools deserve to be ASIs and which ones do not?
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Sir:
Military Education courses that are noted on an ERB/ORB can be taken by anyone. ASI-producing courses are MOS-related and are generally only taken by certain MOS'.
ASIs allow commanders (and CSMs) to look at certified skills of Soldiers in his/her unit in order to assign them to certain duties or slot his/her people more efficiently. These ASIs allow quick identification using customized queries in EMilpo. Without ASI designators, each Soldier record would have to be searched manually. That would be a lot of manpower wasted.
Military Education courses that are noted on an ERB/ORB can be taken by anyone. ASI-producing courses are MOS-related and are generally only taken by certain MOS'.
ASIs allow commanders (and CSMs) to look at certified skills of Soldiers in his/her unit in order to assign them to certain duties or slot his/her people more efficiently. These ASIs allow quick identification using customized queries in EMilpo. Without ASI designators, each Soldier record would have to be searched manually. That would be a lot of manpower wasted.
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SFC Christopher Perry
I never really thought of ASI producing courses as MOS specific. This forced me to go back and revisit the specific information. Indeed there are some MOS specific identifiers. Either way, your explanation regarding quick and easy identification of qualifications makes sense. I am still a bit bothered by how they selected the courses that do/do not produce an ASI. But that is what I get for attempting to apply logic to an illogical situation.
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CPT Maurelli,
That is a very interesting question. I can personally see absolutely no rhyme or reason behind what schools give one an ASI or PDSI and which ones do not. The two that came to mind for me where OPSEC Level II and Security Engineering. Not to take anything away from the Level II course, but the Security Engineering Course is identical in length and considerably more challenging. So then, is it more about the "program manager" part than it is the school itself?
That is a very interesting question. I can personally see absolutely no rhyme or reason behind what schools give one an ASI or PDSI and which ones do not. The two that came to mind for me where OPSEC Level II and Security Engineering. Not to take anything away from the Level II course, but the Security Engineering Course is identical in length and considerably more challenging. So then, is it more about the "program manager" part than it is the school itself?
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