The Navy is known as the outfit that takes care of its own. But you're doubly covered if you also take care of yourself as well. In the area of personnel administration, you can go a long way toward taking care of "number one" by acquainting yourself with one of all personnel administators' "tools of the trade".
That tool is the BuPers Report 1080-14 or 1080 for short. The 1080 is a vital document and every Navyman should have some degree of familiarity with it. The 1080 is the playback, so to speak, of important personnel data fed into the computer banks of BuPers. In other words, information on the 1080 is your story, your status, as far as BuPers is concerned. This being the case, the 1080 becomes a basic decision-making aid for the distributor (EPDO's/BuPers) to determine enlisted assignments.
You, therefore have a great stake in seeing to it that information on your 1080 is correct. To cite an example, a man attached to an overseas command reenlisted and acquired the obligated service that made him eligible for assignment to shore duty under SEAVEY. The fact that he reenlisted and acquired the obligated service should have been fed into the Bureau data bank, but was not. Because the 1080 was not updated and reflected only 12 months obligated service from his tour completion date, the man received orders to sea duty. This additional excursion into the foamy brine could have been prevented if the man in question had taken the trouble to check his EAOS on the 1080 for the period covering his date of reelistment.
The 1080 contains 30 bits of information about each man. If a decision is to be made on higher levels concerning your assignment, you want that judgement to be based on accurate information, i.e. your skills as indicated by appropiate NEC, SEAVEY status, etc.
The Naval Manpower Information Service (NMIS), of which the 1080 is a part, is the system by which personnel data is collected and correlated by the use of machines. The gadgets are great but you can get victimized in the human shuffle. Don't be a casualty. By checking the 1080, you are not only helping yourself but also the Navy. If you are in doubt about any phase of your 1080, see Personnel. They always like company.
CLASS "A" SCHOOL
Recently the command "advertised" for applicants for Class "A" schools. The resulting flood of applicants had PN2 Cruz (prospective PN1) all keyed-up, massaging the typewriter. The Bureau gave a thumbs down on all these requests and indicated that such requests should be submitted within 4 months of tour completion date.
ME...EXTEND ON GUAM?
If you think that Duva is divine and rates an extension of tour, it must be emphasized that requests for extension of tour must be submitted with the prescribed time limits, that is, not less than six months prior to tour completion date. Our files are literally bulging with disapproved late requests, each an exercise in futility for the typist and for the applicant who waited too long.
