I promote on May 01 per my sequence number, but have not received orders. Should I contact my HRC manager or simply be patient?

You're being impatient. It's very understandable, but you're jumping the gun.

Rarely have I seen promotion orders generated prior to the effective date. Usually they are generated the day of, or more commonly, a day or two after your effective date.

Additionally, HRC won't email you orders. HRC will generate them and send them through your HR channels. Nowadays, that means they will be available in IPPS-A on the effective date of your promotion and a copy will be uploaded into iPERMS.

Congrats!

Don't worry about when you actually see the Orders. Come 1 May, your rank will more than likely update to read CPT in the systems to include your pay. What will likely occur is when your unit receives your orders....if they get them before uploaded into your IPPS-A and iPerms.....you'll have a promotion ceremony shortly thereafter.

You know the orders are coming, so just pause, take a knee, drink from the canteen and know that very soon you'll be wearing Captain.

COL Randall C. CSM Darieus ZaGara CSM Chuck Stafford CSM (Join to see)

Red star cluster!