After discovering that my usual official photo lab at NAS Meridian was no longer making Officer Photos I obtained an appointment at NSA Millington, TN. (I still like the way that base switched from and NAS to a NSA.) Given the selection board is meeting in the same place things worlked out fairly nicely. I made the appointment to have my picture made, completed the submissions sheet, and wrote a letter to President of the Selection Board last night.

This morning I got up, way too early, and drove to Millington. The closer I got, the darker the skies grew so that by the time I was in the parking lot it had started to rain. I managed to get inside and stay relatively dry and had my photo taken. I put it on the proper form and then went to give it to the selection board people. They directed me to the right place where I submitted my package and I memtioned that I was missing a FITREP. They told who to see about taking care of that.

I went to PERS-311, as directed, only to find the person I was told to see was not there. The response I got was noce to hear, and something I hear too little of on campus–just becasue he is not here does not mean everything stops, what canI do for you. I got hooked up with the right person who checked my record and confirmed what I thought, I was missing two FITREPS, one from my detaching senior that I’m trying to get, and one that covers the period from the time he detached until the end of the reporting period. My new CO plans to take care of that period with the next periodic FITREP, which he can do, but it does not look good to the Board.

The suggestion was that I submit a letter in lieu of missing report and was given the format. The guy then asked how long i was to be in town and when he found out how far I had come he said “wait a minute”. He then went and talked to someone else and the next thing I knew I was sitting in front of a computer writing the needed letters. When I finished, he checked them, suggested a few changes, and said he would take a copy to be put in my official record and send a copy to the Board. Now that is what I call service.