Posted on Mar 7, 2021
I'm a 2LT in the Army Reserves, I've completed BOLC, met the time requirement but I haven't been promoted to 1LT. How should I proceed?
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I'm a 2LT in the Army Reserves, I've completed BOLC, met the time requirement (18 months) but I still haven't been promoted to 1LT. This is an automatic promotion so I'm not sure what the issue could be or how to address this and our Unit Administrator was not able to help. Does anyone know what I need to do?
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Posted 5 y ago
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Make sure ATRRS reflects you completing BOLC, ensure iPERMS has your 1059 and DD214, verify you are not flagged, and it if all are good then email an inquiry to the HRC Army Reserve Promotions section. The Adobe Flash expiration might be holding up something on HRC’s side of the house. Be prepared to email them your 1059 and DD 214 as well.
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I had a similar issue with my promotion because I was missing documents in IPERMS. I visited my local RPAC office and they were able to tell me what I needed and upload it to IPERMS for me. Then my promotion went through.
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Nothing is automatic in the military. More of a hurry up and wait mentality.
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It’s exactly what it is. A minimum time in grade. Just because you have the minimum doesn’t mean you get it.
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I would concur with the good Captain. As a BN CDR, I did not necessarily promote an officer just because they met the minimum. A sit-down with the 1SGs and Company Commanders was always helpful regarding how the LT was doing as a newly minted officer. That being said, 90 percent of my PLT LDRS went above and beyond and earned their promotion.
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Update: As of this morning, I've received the promotion according to iPerms. For anyone who may be in a similar position, I followed the advice on this thread and ensured my 1059 and DD214 BOLC orders were updated in IPERMS (which they were). I then reached out to my branch manager at HRC, whose email was easily found on the HRC directory page. He took a look at it, pushed it up and my orders were posted the next day. Thanks everyone!
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Your Unit Administrator or ARA needs to submit the packet through eLAS. I can assist if you want to PM me.
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The most common systems that interfere with a promotion are DTMS, RLAS, ATRRS, and iPerms. Ensure that your APFT/ACFT and HT/WT are current, that you were marked as a graduate in ATRRS, RLAS reflects that you are PME complete, and that your 1059 is in iPerms. Your S3 or unit training team can check your APFT/ACFT and HT/WT as well as your ATRRS status. Your ARA or S1 can check your iPerms and RLAS. If you didn’t have a passing APFT in DTMS or if you went incurrent prior to March, 2020, you may need a record APFT. DTMS doesn’t update the other systems until the next business day. If all of those systems are up-to-date and you are still having issues, I would send an inquiry up through your CoC or S1.
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As I remember, a Reserve Commissioned Officer in the AUS has a wait time of 3 years for a USAR promotion to 1LT. However, if on AD as an AUS officer, the wait can be from 18 months to 24 months, depending on the needs of the Army. The AUS rank goes away when leave AD. For example, a friend of mine was on AUS AD 12 months, and he was promoted to 1LT and 12 months later he was told to extend for 12 months, and he was a CPT. After 36 months he left AD and was a brand-new USAR 1LT with zero time in grade. Depends on how badly the Army needs company grade officers. The current conflicts do not seem to have excessive losses of Company grades, so no need to rush them.
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Sir, YOU gotta do the paperwork. It's not like E1 to E2, there is a process.
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Have patience, if all is good. You should get back pay. Assuming you actually did your part
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That all said, it is automatic so long as your oath of office, 4 year college degree, and BOLC graduation certificate, along with not being flagged are all on the visual radar of those in the promotion process see them.
Many come to learn the dis-functional record systems the army operates under. As a company commander I was FLAGGED RED and un-deployable because I kept showing up on the UMR as non branch qualified, and never mind the fact my BOLC 1059 is in iPerm's
The army kept moving along. I got to 1LT automatically and I didn't care. If I got deployed someone would make sure to fix it. Then it occurred to me, I had to personally fix it if I wanted to see CPT. So I did.
I learned in the process this all started back at the School House at Ft Lee because some of my classmates were in the same boat, and some weren't. So it probably mattered who processed our graduation packets at any given time.
It wasn't an easy fix to get it to flow down to the UMR correctly so that readiness reporting systems would stop reporting me as RED.