A long-standing policy that requires career-minded soldiers to re-up no later than 90 days before the end of their current enlistments has been temporarily rescinded for troopers whose current terms of service expire in fiscal 2015, which ends Sept. 30.
The policy adjustment has the practical effect of streamlining the re-enlistment approval process for soldiers who otherwise would have to seek a bureaucratically fraught waiver to the 90-day re-up rule.
Previously waiver requests had to be routed through a soldier's chain of command to the Human Resources Command.Under the temporary measure now in effect, soldiers who delay their re-up decision to the final three months of their enlistments can be cleared for re-up processing by their commander and first sergeant.
The Regular Army retention mission for fiscal 2015 targets two groups of soldiers – those whose terms of service expire before Oct.1, and those whose enlistments expire in fiscal 2016.
The re-up goal for the 2015 cohort is 7,000 soldiers, while the mission for troops whose enlistments expire in 2016 is 40,000.
