Posted on Aug 6, 2018
What’s the probability of remaining at a duty station/assignment after your year of a compassionate reassignment?
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Currently slotted against MTOE slot, after getting compassionate reassignment from Drum to Bragg. Currently at 17 years and would love to retire from Bragg. I have battalion S3 experience and am battle staff and SPO II trained so I can’t see why I would leave. Should I lean forward in the foxhole to be proactive or expect to be PCS’d after my years up? Any and all feedback is welcomed.
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Find a unit on Bragg that you know has your MOS. Get on the CSM's calendar and request a Paragraph, Position, and line number.
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I'd try and find my own slot before hitting up branch. Yes, branch has to fill slots, but, they also like to move people around. Find a slot for yourself, get the connections in place and THEN tell branch you have a solution to a problem they didn't even know they had. If someone comes to me with a solution to a problem before I know about the problem, 9/10 I'll take that solution.
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Your compassionate only stabilizes you there through the end date. HRC still has to comply with time on station requirements prior to PCSing you. As long as you're holding a valid requisition there is no reason to move you from a CONUS assignment at an MTOE unit, especially if it is a BCT.
Chances are, unless you made the list or request recruiting, you aren't even eligible to move yet.
Chances are, unless you made the list or request recruiting, you aren't even eligible to move yet.
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Thank you for your feed back. I just made the list(should be picked up Oct) and am now/ getting ready to be the correct rank for the position, that I'm currently slotted in. Hopefully I am able to stay and not PCS'd back to drum or another unit.
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Talk to the CoC, they can work on letting you stay at Bragg, if they have open slots.
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I think that your best option is to probably just get in touch with branch. I'm sure that they can find someplace for you at Bragg.
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SGT Joseph Gunderson
SFC (Join to see) Branch managers are there for stuff just like this. Their whole purpose is to move people around to fill slots. I was a newly promoted E5 during my second deployment out of Fort Hood when I emailed my branch manager and told him that I wanted to PCS from Hood just for a change of scenery; if that isn't a stupid reason to get in touch with branch, I don't know what is. Not only was it a stupid reason, they had to lift some kind of hold on me to do it because the unit was reorganizing and they wanted a bunch of us NCOs to stick around to lend structure. I'm pretty sure that if you lay it all out for them, branch will work to get you squared away, especially due to your rank and TIS.
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Talk to your CSM. And submit your extension with S1. Only having 3 years left will work in your favor. Be proactive and fight for what you want.
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This is exactly what happened to me back in 1983. My oldest son was due follow-on heart surgery therefore we were compassionately reassigned to a center that could do the complicated surgery. The surgery was not done as expected and the need still existed. I was fortunate to be slotted in an active duty slot in the G4 of a reserve division. He had his surgery a year into this assignment.
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Leaning forward is always best....do the leg work...no pun intended...and make it easier to Keep you than let you go. But being Promotable they may not have a slot for you.
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