There was nothing else. No ARI, ULQ, NJP, nothing. My section I comments essentially say, "Good guy, good officer, had trouble at the boat"
As effed up as it is, having your flight status revoked in an FPPB/FSSB for failing at any point in the FRS or the fleet is a DC Adverse FITREP per the PES- "The Reporting Senior (RS) must submit a (DC) report for the following specific actions"... "(H) When the Deputy Commandant, Aviation (DC AVN) determines that a respondent to a Flight Status Selection Board (FSSB) is subject to revocation of orders to duty in a flight status..."
It's not so for flight school, but in the Marine Corps eyes, the FRS isn't flight school. I didn't have a student MOS, I was a 7523 NATOPS qualified F/A-18 pilot. I tried to get it pulled or changed, but it was denied.
The PES manual was most likely updated after your FFPB. You were still at the FRS though and had not completed the syllabus. Correct? If the PES manual was updated (MCO 1610.17A) when you went through your appeal... How does the Marine Corps not view the FRS F/A-18 syllabi as a technical entry level school would be be beyond my comprehension.
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1. Reporting officials must not, however, penalize a Marine for lacking the MOS prerequisites for the school or for lacking formal education or natural abilities or aptitudes to complete the school. If the MRO is dropped from a school due to lacking the natural abilities or aptitude to complete the course, and not because of those items listed in sub- paragraph (f) above, the RS shall comment as follows in section I, “MRO was disenrolled from the school because he/she did not meet the required prerequisites.” The RS will complete the report as a regular, non-adverse, fitness report.
2. Examples that are not adverse: Dropped from flight school or any entry-level technically oriented school because of not having specific ability or aptitude; not accepted for Drill Instructor or Recruiter School or duty because of not meeting the ideal psychological profile. Note: Reporting officials should not base recommendations for promotion in these examples purely on academic achievement, grade point average, aptitude, or ability to assimilate instruction; the “whole Marine” concept still applies.
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8. Appeals to Previously Submitted Reports
a. The MRO may appeal any report that he or she believes is incorrect, inaccurate, or in violation of the policies and instructions in this Order once the report is a matter of official record. The MRO must submit an appeal per the provisions of Chapter 10.
Yes, let me risk my life trying to qualify landing this thousand pound giant machine on a floating steel prison going hundreds of miles of hour in an area the size of a basketball court and not call it “entry level” or “technical.” ...only to have you kick me in the cajones when I can’t do it with in the amount of training time allotted.
If you haven’t written your congressmen about the adjudication of the fitrep, then that would be my next step. Atleast If you are looking to stay in the Marines.
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