Why does QMP message say soldier has 7 months to get out but it's actually 6 or less by time of notification?

Look for a federal job. What is your MOS?

If you are no longer overweight you can write to the Army Board for the Correction of Military Records IAW AR 15-185. Hire a civilian attorney and have them save your career or don’t it is totally your call.

I understand your concern and how conveying this message can be very ambiguous. How the months work in the QMP process this that Soldiers are given 7 months to separate from service, however.. it is not 7 months from time of notification. It is 7 months from the time that G-1/HRC approves the list of the QMP board results. Inform your Soldiers of this as it will benefit them to know so they can better prepare. G-1 may approve the list on 1 June 2017, but if you are notified 1 September 2017... you have to subtract those months and that's how much time your really have to separate from service. Yea I know.. doesn't seem right does it?? but this is true. Also, G-1/HRC take into account the amount of years you have in service. For example, if a Soldier has 17 years and 8 months in service and was being considered for QMP, he or she would not populate on the approved QMP list because they would have reached what is called, "a state of sanctuary" upon time of the approved list (in other words they remain retained). Because a Soldier has 7 months to separate from service at time of approved list, a Soldier with 17 years and 8 months of service would reach 18 years and 3 months during that 7 months window of time to separate.. Since 18 years and 3 months is the starting point for state sanctuary.. Soldier will not get QMP'ed and will get to retire with full benefits (but has to retire at 20 years and not a day long). He or she probably wont ever get promoted again.. but they can at least retire as long as they haven't or will not reach an RCP date before 20 years. I hope this was helpful for those in question. I have battles who missed the state of sanctuary literally by one month. Horrible to be told you have to get out of the Army at 18 years and 2 months in service, but if you had 18 years and 3 months, .... your safe, you can retire.

Simple answer to a simple question: "SM will be separated by the first day of the seventh following release of the board results" or something to that effect. For the last board that convened in March, the results were released in May. You count May, June, July, August, September and October. The separation date is NLT than 1 November, with November being the seventh month.

Good Luck!

Regardless of what they say the QMP board is for if you are in a position in am overstrength MOS regardless if you sneezed and crapped your pants 15 years ago... You are getting the boot. That is just my insightful opinion

The headline is misleading....simple being overweight 3 years ago is not why he is being let go....he failed to meet standards, he didn't compete for promotion, his time ran out and so did his appeals.....the Army is awesome at telling people they are screwed up, putting it in writing and following through if you fail to meet minimum standards while at the same time rewarding those that meet and exceed standards....simple showing up and doing your job is not justification to keep someone that doesn't meet the minimum standards that his peers so and receive the same benefits.

Not to be too judgmental and offend anyone. Keeping in mind that as a 1SG, I always am offending someone. He was QMP'D because of our politicians decision to draw down. Obviously the QMP board looks across the entire group of people and by MOS. He is an E-6 with 11 years, he has a permanent profile, he is or was overweight. Depending on the number of people in his MOS that have to be eliminated he may have the statistics to have fallen in the QMP because the other SSG in his MOS was above him. In other times, the QMP board may have not chosen him. He needs to look at the other options available to him. VA disability for profile. Reserve or NG units or move on with his life. When the money is tight and you have to cut back, you only keep the best.

Sorry to hear that. I had to have surgery twice and because of that I got passed over for promotion until after I was fully healed. By the time I was i didn't have enough time left to make rank and ended up RST ' ing. I spoke with a recruiter and rolled over into the IRR and then transitioned into the reserves. I can now do my last 5 years and get my retirement. Don't know if this helps but it's worth a shot.

Bottom line here is simple: The Army is drawing down and they are looking for ANY reason to show a Soldier the door. They have been directed to drop 40,000 Soldiers. This is their plan to do it. Those of you who have been in longer than one Presidency will remember: Democrats ALWAYS cut expenses by cutting the Military first. Then a Republican comes along and rebuilds it. Remember Carter followed by Reagan? Same thing. Many careers were cut short for stupid stuff.