Personnel Actions
This action, documented on a DA Form 268, is used to suspend favorable personnel actions for a Soldier.
What is a Flag?
This is the official name for a Soldier's permanent records file, which is viewed in iPERMS.
What is the Army Military Human Resource Record (AMHRR)?
This system is used to enroll and manage dependents for military benefits.
Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS)?
This Army Regulation is considered the "bible" for preparing and managing military correspondence.
What is AR 25-50?
Adjutant General
This Army Regulation governs Enlisted Promotions and Reductions.
What is AR 600-8-19
This Army Regulation governs the Army Military Human Resource Record (AMHRR).
This form is used to elect or decline life insurance coverage.
What is the SGLV-8286 (Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance Election)?
This regulation governs military awards.
What is AR 600-8-22?
What does IPPSA stand for
Integrated Persnnel and Pay System
This type of promotion occurs when a Soldier meets a specified time in service and time in grade.
What is an automatic promotion (or waiver)?
At a minimum, Soldiers should review their AMHRR/OMPF this often.
What is annually?
This regulation covers Army Emergency Relief (AER).
What is AR 930-4?
In Army writing, this principle requires that you put the most important information first.
What is Bottom Line Up Front (BLUF)?
This federal law provides financial and legal protections for service members, including the ability to cap pre-service interest rates at 6%.
What is the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (SCRA)?
In IPPS-A, this is what a "PAR" stands for.
What is a Personnel Action Request?
This folder within iPERMS contains a Soldier's performance evaluations like NCOERs and OERs.
What is the "Performance" folder?
The Transition Assistance Program (TAP) must be initiated by a Soldier no later than this many months before their separation date.
What is 12 months (or 365 days)?
What does the acronym "FSC" stand for in an S-1 section?
What is Finance Support Center?
When walking with a senior officer, you should always walk on this side of them.
What is their left side?
This is the authority who can impose a Bar to Continued Service.
What is a Company-level Commander?
This process allows a rated Soldier to formally disagree with their NCOER, which is then submitted to the Special Review Board for a final decision.
What is an Appeal?
What is a TSP and who qualifies for it.
The S-1 is responsible for which of the Sustainment Warfighting Functions?
What is Personnel Services?
During the Vietnam War, this was the first major airmobile assault by U.S. forces, involving a large-scale helicopter deployment into the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965.
What is the Battle of Ia Drang?