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If you’re about to retire and your unit doesn’t provide you an retirement award, can you place yourself for a retirement award?
Awards
Awards Clerk
Retirement
Posted 3 mo ago
Responses: 4
No. You can write it up and bring it to the attention of a senior individual who was familiar with your actions and/or your chain of command, but self-nominations are not allowed (AR 600-8-22*, para 3-5).
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* AR 600-8-22 (Military Awards) - https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN30935-AR_600-8-22-000-WEB-1.pdf
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* AR 600-8-22 (Military Awards) - https://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/DR_pubs/DR_a/ARN30935-AR_600-8-22-000-WEB-1.pdf
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You can draft the writeup and do your fair share of running it up the flag pole but the submitter can't be you. Someone will have to submit for you. I did majority of the grunt work for every award I received except for my very first. I had a similar issue pop up when I was being medically retired. Hold your ground and eventually someone from the head shed will end up assigning someone to run it.
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The main question is why does it matter?
Not taking away from an accomplished career, you know what you did during your time. After you remove the uniform for the last time, nobody on the outside cares what award or evaluation was given prior to retirement.
The only "award" that matted to me when my time came was a DD214 and the issuance of the blue ID card.
Anything else is just fluff and dog and pony show.
Not taking away from an accomplished career, you know what you did during your time. After you remove the uniform for the last time, nobody on the outside cares what award or evaluation was given prior to retirement.
The only "award" that matted to me when my time came was a DD214 and the issuance of the blue ID card.
Anything else is just fluff and dog and pony show.
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
Because all awards go on DD214...and they told us whwn I had my DD214 brief if you got a MSM make sure it's on there and certain other awards.
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Lt Col (Join to see)
Depends some civilian GS and contractor jobs, they do sometimes look at your record. If you didn't have an end of service award, it might raise concerns that you either did not care, or were not a real productive member or there was some derogatory information that prevented the award. If you have a solid duty history, the leadership should support the award. Hiring managers might want to see, if anything else it could be a simple disqualifier if being compared to another similar candidate for the job. Obviously, if you plan on working outside the DOD sphere, nobody in corporate management cares.
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