 What I would say about selection boards is in my 32 years in the Navy It is the fairest process and the cleanest process and the most honest process that I have ever experienced in my life It is very very Very pure It's not you know, let's throw up the records and whoever's lands on the table. Those are the ones we're going to select Everything is pure It's 100% we take an oath at the selection board. We raise our hand and we swear to all of that So I want everyone to know that this is a very clean process You are responsible for maintaining your record. You must maintain your record Because that's all we're looking at is your service record and what you send us to the board Only you can communicate with the selection board You must make sure that if you're sending something to the board, it's explained well Fill in the gaps if something's missing tell us why if you've done something odd in your rotation Like back-to-back staff duty Or the same platform in the same area for three tours. You must tell us why Put it in your evil. It should be in your evil that says Transferring to another staff duty down the road because specifically requested by the chief of staff for their Expertise for a mission they're coming up and working on in the next 18 months or would have gone to see duty You know kind of a deal that tells the board why you did that So sending your stuff that you've done that's not in there sending corrections Let us know you've done a correction letter to the boards in order to purge to get something uploaded Go to the briefs go to the briefs go to the briefs in Most fleet concentration areas or at commands Someone like us is doing a brief for you on how to write enlisted evals how to put together a package If you're going up for a selection board and you're a chief senior chief or going up for master chief Sit down with someone who has sat on the board or call them I get email packages all the time from people I've worked with in the past that say hey fleet Can you look at my package? Here's my letter to the board am I saying this correctly? So talk to the people that are out there Really quick. I get a lot of questions same question from a lot of sailors. Why can't the board tell me why I wasn't selected? We can't there are thousands of you and so we can't do an individual brief with you But predominantly because what the selection board looked at this year may not be what they're going to look at next year So if I tell you this and this was something you didn't have and we were looking at then that's all you're going to work on For next year and the next year the next year's board is going to look at this and this and you avoided it Sustained superior performance is key. I thought that was a load of hokey when I was coming up and growing up in the Navy And people would say to me you know Ortloff it's sustained superior performance. Does it matter where you're assigned? It's what you do while you're there. You must fill in those blocks of the eval You must fill in those blocks of the brag sheet You have 12 months to show us in a documented format cause and effect meeting all these things It's up to you. How can we help you? We can help assign you collaterals and so forth. You must do this It's not a secret so you must take care of yourself in your progression Don't wait for things to happen to you make them happen for you