As most of you already know we have made changes to the YN Assignment process. Mr. Jennings will assign E-6 - E-9 and I will be assigning E-5's and below (including all 'A' School billets). I wanted to reach out to you to help make this upcoming (AY-14) assignment year a success. In an effort to ensure better communication, I would like to talk with every YN2 and YN3 that is transfer eligible this year during the Career Counseling timeframe (1 May - 30 August). To do that I am going to need your help to ensure that all YN see this email to have the opportunity to call me. If you know of units that have a YN2 or 3 but not a Senior YN or PERS, please forward this to them as well.
In my first year I found it interesting that less than 10% of the rotation eligible YN called during this timeframe, however, a much bigger number called once they received their orders. It stands to reason that if they call on the front end and receive the proper counseling they will not be surprised with their orders. One big change that I am making this year is that I will not be sending out a 'leftover' list to ANY YN2's or YN3's. So these Career Counseling calls will be vital to ensure the YN have realistic e-resume's and are on the same page as I am as for as expectations. To that end I will be tracking who does and does not call me.
Again, I am asking for your help to please give this email the widest dissemination possible. Let your members know that they can either IM or email me and I will get back with a time for them to call me. Thank you and have a great day.
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CWO4 Dave Schuster
CG Personnel Service Center
YN Assignment Officer
(703) 872-6608 - work
(703) 872-6665 - fax
http://www.uscg.mil/psc/epm/AO/YN.asp