Birth month checks

1SG Jeffrey Bergeron — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:08:03 -0400

Does anyone remember Birth month checks, I am thinking about starting this in my company. Does anyone have an old example I can use.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 5 at 2014 12:10 PM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:10:04 -0400

Never heard of it 1SG. What is it exactly?

Response by MSG Wade Huffman made Jun 5 at 2014 12:14 PM

MSG Wade Huffman — Thu, 05 Jun 2014 12:14:03 -0400

I only remember doing annual dental exam during birth month. If there were any other checks done I don't recall them.

Response by CSM James Winslow made Jun 6 at 2014 11:35 AM

CSM James Winslow — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:35:48 -0400

A birth month audit was a tool to ensure a Soldier was continually up to date. It has since been replaced (somewhat sucessfully) by the individual SRP. During the course of the last decade or so, while all were continually deploying, it fell out of use as a managemet tool. Proper scheduling of Soldiers for the BMAs would ensure continual updating of all necessary documents to ensure completeness od data prior to the Soviets attacking.

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 6 at 2014 8:12 PM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:12:43 -0400

Whom ever is in your orderly room, that has access to MEDPROS, can easily pull that up for you daily, weekly, or monthly (which ever you choose). They can creat a excel spread sheet to track what solders need when. That is what I use to do for my company.

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 6 at 2014 8:29 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 20:29:41 -0400

1SG,

The new update to iPerms should help to alleviate most of this problem. But really, tracking is the only sure fire way to ensure 100%. I find myself catching hell trying to stay on top of a whole Battery of SMs, but pulling reports from iPerms and DPRO among others has helped me catch up.

Response by SPC Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 6 at 2014 10:12 PM

SPC Private RallyPoint Member — Fri, 06 Jun 2014 22:12:27 -0400

Coming from a medics point of view i think doing all of srp over again during a SM birth month is a great method of keeping everyones paperwork, medical status, immunizations, dental etc up to date. For one its alleviates the stress and overwhelming overload on so many different people and departments if every SM would step up and take on this individual tasking, granted that us as medics and 1sgt are tracking everyones status weekly and stay ontop of our own to ensure it gets done. We have a At my current unit we just started this process and it seems to be working pretty well. They have provided us with a printout with all the different s-shops, medical, dental, admin, etc. on one sheet with operating hours and phone numbers that needs to be visited once they have taken care of that specific department it gets signed off on. Once all gets complete it gets turned back in to the training room. And through medpros we can see if its not getting done and confront that individual on whats the problem. Sorry for sich a drawn out post