 This is a very special time of the year. Not only is it the holiday season, but it's also the season where we advance our Navy's newest petty officers. And some petty officers are able to select to the next pay grade. So this is always a very exciting year for us. And normally right around the time of the Thanksgiving long Thanksgiving weekend, those advancement results come out. So I know that there's probably, hopefully a lot of listeners out there that are anxiously awaiting those advancement results and are getting pretty excited about learning whether or not they're gonna be selected for the next pay grade. You know, we wanna make sure that for each person that's selected for the next pay grade that they complete the appropriate leadership selectee course. So that would be just your standard petty officer selectee course, your second class petty officer selectee course, or your first class petty officer selectee course. And this is a very important step in your leadership process. Particularly I would say, I put the most emphasis probably on that third class petty officer leadership course because that is really their first opportunity to get indoctrinated with some additional leadership skills. So it's very important that commands take the time to properly administer this course. It's three days, I have seen commands try to do this course in two days, but if you wanna get the most bang for your buck out of this course, out of any of the three courses I just talked about, you have to take the full complete days. And I'd encourage that the cheese masses out there get actively involved in this. One of McPon's developing leaders is what we talk about in the leadership mass a lot. And we control what we own. As senior enlisted, we own enlisted leadership. So we have a responsibility to ensure we have a responsibility to ensure the success of our Navy. And we do that by developing these young petty officers because one day, petty officer take a, you know what, you're gonna relieve me because Mass Chief Adaro can't stay around forever. The Mass Chief Adaro said that the results coming out and I'm sure a lot of sailors are anxious to get their results. I'm sure there's gonna be some sleepless night. I know I did, I had some sleepless night before the result came out. So by the time we get our results, sure, everybody will be looking at their profile sheets. Hopefully they do, okay? And we need to understand what items are being considered in our advancement. So we need to understand how the final multiple score is being done or being scored. So the factors for advancement is, the mainly is the performance mark average. It takes a lot from the multiple score. For E4 and E5, it takes about 36% of our points. So that's 64 points total. For E6, it takes 50% of our score. And for E7 exam, it takes 60% of our score. So as you can see, the higher the pay grade, the higher the emphasis on the PMA, which is how we perform in our command. So then that's one of the big thing. And that's really calling for sustained superior performance. From the beginning, from the get go, from boot camp to up to your retirement, you should be striving for that. And that, because that will affect your advancement. And then the standard score, which is this score on the test. I think so many times sailors miss how important that is. Normally what a sailor does who doesn't make rate the first time or second time, is they use that profile sheet as your sole source of determining whether or not they should study a certain topic or not. They look at that profile sheet and they look at it and say, oh look, I scored in a 90% tile in administration. So I must be pretty good at that. So they just stop studying that. I always tell sailors, in addition to just starting early, you know what, use that bibliography for advancement. You know what, and if you don't know where to get it, you can talk to one person, your command career counselor, who's sitting right next to me, or you can just simply log on to NKO. NKO has all that information. They have the latest bibliographies on there. And please start early. Don't wait for things to happen to you. Make them happen for you.