Posted on Jan 8, 2014
How does everyone feel about the way that the correspondence hours requirements have changed?
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I was looking at my ERB the other day, and when I came across Military Ed.....I got a little upset think about it. In my opinion, those of us that had put in several, and I mean several long, boring, dry, agonizing hours doing correspondence in order to raise our hours....we should have somehow been grandfathered into the new system with the equivalent amount of credit that we had previously earned. I real they think that this should be looked at again. I don't think that it's right that at one time I had maxed out the standard for hours...but because the requirements changed (after I had meet a standard) it appears that I barely did any courses at all.
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SSG Gifford, did you do complete courses back then? If so then you can print out your ATTRs transcript, and your S-1 can put hours back in for you. In addition when you complete different levels of SSD, 80 hours per level will automatically populate there.
Having talked to a CSM that had recently sat on a promotion board, they are aware of the change. He said for him, he looked at it favorably if you had a triple digit number in the block. Hope that helps relieve your frustration a little.
Having talked to a CSM that had recently sat on a promotion board, they are aware of the change. He said for him, he looked at it favorably if you had a triple digit number in the block. Hope that helps relieve your frustration a little.
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Honestly, I stopped caring about that number after it stopped mattering for promotion. That block is XXXed out on the ERB the board sees and you just keep adding to it as you take more mandated online training.
Also: My S-1 lied to me and said it had to be all modules, so all my stuff transferred over in full.
Also: My S-1 lied to me and said it had to be all modules, so all my stuff transferred over in full.
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SSG (Join to see)
Oh wow, see...mine didn't I went from a 1000 hours down to 119 after the rule was changed. I do see your point about it not mattering though....It just makes me mad every time I look at it.
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SFC Steven Harvey
That block is not blocked out for the SFC Board, but we are still grandfathered in man. It just reset after 2010, goto atiam.train.army.mil/awu and print out your history. When they say 40 hours those go in your military ed block if it's listed on the resident code list. I think they can all be added to the Correspondence Hours but anything not over 40 hrs wouldn't be counted towards points not that we care as SSGs.
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SFC Steven Harvey
To be honest though I'd be more worried about filling out the timelines right, awards, and military Ed as opposed to correspondence.
Good luck, I lost my bet with Stockton while we were deployed saying I would make 1SG before him. I'll always be one rank behind that guy!
Good luck, I lost my bet with Stockton while we were deployed saying I would make 1SG before him. I'll always be one rank behind that guy!
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SSG Daniel Deiler
SSG Harvey - The 40 hour courses aren't what was lost. There are MANY correspondence courses taken through AIPD (The Army Institute of Professional Development) that if taken as a subcourse (There are subcourses and courses that are comprised of several subcourses) were counted as correspondence course hours. Now if you do not complete all the subcourses contained in a course, you do not receive any credit. But I agree wholeheartedly with SSG Gifford. It's a crock of BS that after all that exhaustive and mind numbing work that was completed, we now do not receive any credit for it. Hell I even remember having to receive a booklet with a scantron in the mail and having to mail in our course work.
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