GSA Detailing Process Improves IA Assignments
Navy NewsStand
Story Number: NNS080112-05
Release Date: 1/12/2008 7:36:00 AM
By Chief Mass Communication Specialist Rhonda Burke, Commander Navy Region Midwest
GREAT LAKES, Ill. (NNS) -- The Global War on Terror Support Assignment (GSA) detailing system is offering a better balance between personnel requirements and the global war on terrorism (GWOT) and improving stability for Sailors and their families.
"Just this last week, we finally realized the outlines of the GSA detailing and GWOT support assignments process. It is how we have brought the IA process into the mainstreaming of the detailing process," said Vice Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., commander, Naval Personnel Command. "We have put predictability and stability into the process for our Sailors and their families."
NAVADMIN 002/08, IA Individual Augmentation Manpower Management Business Rules and NAVADMIN 003/08, GSA Detailing Business Rules, released this week, capture the feedback Navy leaders received when asking Sailors and commands how to create a better system for IA assignments.
Harvey said more than 700 Sailors have negotiated IA assignments under the GSA Detailing process, since it was introduced in June 2007, and that number will grow over the next two years to encompass the entire IA process.
The GSA detailing concept allows Sailors to negotiate for an IA when it fits their needs. Eventually it will replace the need to pull Sailors from other assignments mid tour in order to fill an IA.
GSA Sailors receive administrative Permanent Change of Station orders to San Diego or Norfolk and TDY orders for all training and movement, including to the Navy Mobilization Processing Site. PCS allows for moving dependents to fleet concentration areas with large support services and infrastructure. If dependents choose to remain in their current location, they retain military housing and basic allowance for housing entitlements for that location.
In addition to improving the detailing process, the Navy has also implemented several other provisions for those who complete an IA tour.
"We have put incredible flexibility into the exam process. If it is the right circumstances where the Sailor can prepare and take the exam then we will give it to them. If that Sailors is engaged in operations on the ground, that do not permit us to give him the exam, it won't adversely affect that Sailor," Harvey said.
Additionally, advancement points are now awarded for successful IA duty accomplished. Selection boards will be given precepts, which will guide them and provide weight to the IA experience for both officers and enlisted on active and reserve selection boards.
"Recognizing that this IA mission is extremely important and it will be with us for a while, we are taking the steps to bring it into the mainstream of how we do business and that will be better for the Sailor, it will be better for their command and it will be a lot better for their family," Harvey said.
In addition to billets in Iraq and Afghanistan, GSA detailing will also cover assignments to the Horn of Africa, Kuwait, Bahrain, Germany, South America, Cuba, Kosovo, Philippines, and even stateside duty in Tampa, Fla., and Arlington, Va.
GSA billets are currently available on Career Management System-Interactive Detailing, the program enlisted Sailors use to apply for orders. The Web address is https://www.cmsid.navy.mil. Billets are listed under the category code 90GS. Officers can contact their detailer directly for information on GSA billets.
"I think we have a good package in these two NAVADMINS and our focus now is on execution," Harvey said. "What we want to do now is to hear from the Sailors, hear from their commands, work with the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy and the master chief community and seek feedback and determine what else we need to do to improve."
For more news from the Chief of Naval Personnel, visit www.navy.mil/local/cnp/.>
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