Thousands of Soldiers, NCOs
Currently Ineligible for Promotion
Because of SSD Requirements
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tarting Jan. 1, tens of thousands of Soldiers and
NCOs will either lose promotion eligibility or may
become ineligible for promotion board consider-
ation because they have not complied with Structured
Self-Development requirements.
Army Directive 2013-15, released by Secretary of the
Army John M. McHugh on July 1 —and MILPER mes-
sage 13-275, released Sept. 26 —states that SSD-1 must be
completed by Jan. 1, 2014, for a specialist or corporal to be
placed on the recommended list for promotion to sergeant.
Currently, there are 3,366 specialists who will lose
promotable status on Jan. 1, and 41,035 specialists who
are not eligible to become promotable unless they com-
plete SSD-1 by Jan. 1, according to the Army G-1.
Soldiers who still need to complete their SSD re-
quirements have until Jan. 1, 2014, to do so. To check
their enrollment status, Soldiers need to check the Army
Learning Management System, or ALMS, on Army
Knowledge Online.
e Army Directive also said all sta sergeants must
complete SSD-3 to attain eligibility for promotion to
sergeant rst class. In addition, all sergeants rst class
must complete SSD-4 before they are eligible for selec-
tion to master sergeant.
According to the Army G-1, there are 11,238 sta
sergeants who are otherwise eligible to go before the
February 2014 sergeant rst class board but will not
until they complete SSD-3.
In addition, there are 13,498 sergeants rst class who
are otherwise eligible to go before the October 2014 mas-
ter sergeant board who will not until they complete SSD-4.
MILPER message 13-275 only addresses SSD, not
ALC-Common Core. e point of contact for the MIL-
PER message is Human Resources Command at usarmy.
knox.hrc.mbx.empd.ncoes-operatio[email protected]
To learn more about SSD click → here.
Click here →ad2013_15to download Army Direc-
tive 2013-15.
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