First of all, c’mon people! Do you really think a site named “Gear Adrift” is going to have the latest advancement results? Secondly, why do you think google would lead you to the right place? It’s a great search engine but if you don’t know about the results, why would google? It’s not like google is in the Navy, after all.

So, here’s my bright idea to help you fellow rate-grabbers out. I’m going to compile a tracker of exactly when the various Navy advancement results have come out.

Navy Advancement Results Tracker

• Jan 2008, CYCLE 198 Chief (E7) Advancement Results - 01 AUG 2008
• Mar 2008, CYCLE 199 (E4, E5, E6) Advancement Results - 22 MAY 2008
• Sep 2007, CYCLE 195 (E4, E5, E6) Advancement Results - 16 NOV 2007

https://www.bol.navy.mil/DefaultPub.aspx

For those of us who feel we were close, and are wondering when do Navy advancement results come out, the best thing for us to do is sit back and forget about getting advanced. For those who don’t think they made it, wait for the bibs and get a head start on March’s exam (yeah, right!). Honestly, the best part of getting advanced is not having to take the Navy Advancement exam for a few years.

Ok, maybe it’s not the best part, but it’s close.

Either way, we’ll get the Navy advancement results posted sometime around December probably. No names, of course, just the stats.

September 2007 Navy Advancement Results

This is just a placeholder for the Navy Advancement Results that will be coming out late November 2007. Remember, results for the Navy advancement exam do not come out until then.

If you want more information on when Navy Advancment Results are going to come out, consult the thread When do Navy Advancement Results Come out.

Ok, here’s how it works:

The Navy has advancement cycles. For advancement to paygrades E-4 to E-6, there are two cycles. January 1st - June 30th and July 1st - December 31st. These cycles have one main purpose, to provide “limiting dates” for advancement authority but they also give a clue as to when the VERY LAST day is for Navy Advancement Results to come out.

Basically, the Navy has until June 30th or Decemeber 31st to:

However, the Navy usually does the second part earlier (though it varies a lot).
March 2007’s advancement results cames out in May and September 2006’s results came out in LATE November (after Thanksgiving).

However, this cycle the Navy changed something. The Navy sort of “rearranged” the way that they score the final multiple. They chopped the legs out from underneath sailors with average evaluations and mediocre test scores. Luckily for me, I’m in neither category. I have a fairly high eval score and I do way better than average on the test. Basically, the change helped me, so why does this bother me? I’m going to assume if you’ve read this far, you are familiar (at least a little bit) with the Navy advancement system.

Without the change, and all things remaining the same, I needed 14 points to get advanced to 1st based on the previous test 6 months ago. The final multiple to get advanced was 218 and my final multiple was 204. Because of my test score and my eval average, I gained 6 points in PNA. I also gained 2 points from a Good Conduct Medal, 3 points from a bump in eval average, and 1 point time in rate for a grand total of 12 points. That means, all I have to do is score 2 points higher on the test and I get advanced.

Now, here comes the change. I get the 6 PNA points, 2 from the GCM, and 1 from time in rate but the new advancement scoring gives me 6 points for a grand total of 15 extra points. I should be happy right? Well, actually, I’m a bit skeptical. When the Navy does a big shake up like this, the numbers get all out of whack. That final multiple of 218 could easily shoot up to a 228 or even higher. I’m not saying it’s going to, I’m just saying that I like to be in control of my destiny and at least feel like I have a little control of my future income.

After all, that’s why I even write on this blog. It helps me to talk about the things going on in my life and allows users to interact with me and opens up the possibility of future connections (like Doc) and the guarantee that I can keep up with old friends, like Casey Eaves (Cheeves), that are stationed overseas.

This brings me to my next thought, comment spam. These spammers are getting better and better every day. I recently moved to a dedicated server and the pending DNS move caused a few comments to be lost. Luckily for me, most of these were spam. When the DNS finally did propagate, I found 119 comments and most of them appeared to be legitimate. I decided to spot check one of them to see what the commentor was saying and low and behold, it was some random quote from John Paul Jones that had nothing to do with wordpress plugins or php. All they were doing was trying to gain 1 single link back to their black hat site, at the expense of my site. It’s bad enough this was the worst server move in the history of server moves.

Hey, at least they got the Navy part right, though.