 Welcome to the rundown. In a recent nav admin, the Navy announced the restoration of the sailor early return to sea were CERT's policy. The policy increases detailer's authority to transfer sailors from their shore duty assignment earlier than the projected rotation date. CERT's is in place to increase the available inventory of sailors to fill critical skill requirements at sea for pay grades E4 to E9. The criteria for a sailor's eligibility for CERT's depends on a number of factors such as length of time on shore, current or frocked pay grade, fleet experience, type of previous sea duty and others. Sailors will only be eligible for CERT's if they have completed at least 18 to 23 months of shore duty and will not transfer until they have completed at least 24 months in their shore assignment. For more details, see navadmin156-18 or read the story on navy.mil. The Navy has put out a reminder that we have just passed the halfway point for eligible sailors to opt into the blended retirement system. Sailors have until December 31, 2018, to opt into BRS, which can be completed via the MyPay website. BRS mid-career continuation pay rates for 2019 have been announced. Sailors who desire the continuation pay must have opted into BRS and requested the continuation pay before reaching 12 years of service. The pay rates can be found on the NPC website. For more information about BRS or to use BRS comparison calculator, go to militarypay.defense.gov. Fiscal year 2019 chief quotas have been announced. The advancement opportunity this year is just over 25 percent, so one in every four eligible first classes will be putting on their chief anchors soon. To all those up for selection, good luck. That's all for this week. Connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube at USNPeople. You can listen to our collection of sailor-to-sailor podcasts at navy.mil-cmp. For any questions, we're to sign up for our monthly newsletter. Send us a message at usnpeople.fct at navy.mil. I'm MCTaylor Preston. Thanks for watching.