Junior enlisted soldiers in select specialties will again have to pass through competitive re-enlistment gates under a "precision retention" strategy to be followed by the Army in fiscal 2016.

The special measures apply to Regular Army soldiers, many of them first-termers, who have been endorsed by their commanders, but who require a final assessment and approval by Human Resources Command.

Under the precision retention strategy announced Sept. 23 by HRC, re-up missions for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1 will be issued to commanders every quarter.

Depending on requirements, the Army may restrict re-enlistments based on a soldier's military occupational specialty, skill level and special qualifications, just has it has done during the first two years of the ongoing drawdown.

The Sept. 23 update to the precision retention program places restrictions on these MOS and skill levels, to include one language-dependent specialty, as follows:

• 09L, (interpreter and translator), SL1.

• 12R (interior electrician), SL1.

• 12W (carpentry and masonry specialist), SL1.

• 13T (field artillery surveyor and meteorological crewmember), SL1.

• 15J (OH-58D armament, electrical and avionics systems repairer), SL 1.

• 15S (OH-58D helicopter repairer), SL1 and 2.

• 94Y (integrated family of test equipment operator and maintainer), SL1 and 2.

Restrictions also apply to all skill levels of MOS 35P (cryptologic linguist) with language codes: CM (Chinese Mandarin), FR (French), HE (Hebrew), JN (Indonesian), KP (Korean),PG (Dari), PU (Pushtu), PV (Pushtu-Afghan), QB (Spanish-Caribbean), SC (Serbo-Croatian), TA (Tagalog) and UR (Urdu).

Soldiers in the above-listed specialties and skills who are approved for re-enlistment by their commander must request final approval from the enlisted reclassification and re-enlistment branch of the Human Resources Command.

Commanders and soldiers should work with their local career counselor to prepare such requests.

In processing re-up requests, HRC will evaluate the soldier's record and accomplishments in comparison to other soldiers of the same MOS and skill level throughout the Army. HRC officials will then render one of the following decisions:

• Approve re-enlistment in the soldier's current MOS.

• Direct reclassification to a new MOS.

• Approve an extension of the soldier's current enlistment.

• Deny re-enlistment.

The final decision will be relayed to the soldier's commander via a memorandum that will include any restrictions to the length of extension or re-enlistment.

Soldiers will have seven days from the HRC approval date to extend or re-enlist.

Soldiers who are denied re-enlistment will have their records annotated with the code"9F"to indicate they "have been denied retention by the Secretary of the Army-force shaping requirements."

These soldiers may be eligible for separation pay, and continued military service with the reserve components.

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