FY20 Meritorious Promotion Allocations for Prior Service Recruiters (PSR), Extended Active Duty (EAD) Recruiters, and Selected Marine Corps Reserve (SMCR) Staff Noncommissioned Officers (SNCO)

1.  Purpose.  To announce the FY20 meritorious promotion allocations for PSR, EAD recruiters, and SMCR SNCO's to commanding generals and commanding officers.<br>
2.  Commanders with specific allocations listed below will convene selection boards within their commands to nominate Marines for meritorious promotion by the Commandant of the Marine Corps (CMC).  The recommendations of the selection boards for the meritorious promotion of Marines to gunnery sergeant and staff sergeant will be endorsed by the commander and submitted via naval correspondence to CMC Enlisted Promotions Section (MMPR-2).  Upon review and approval of the nominations by the CMC Manpower Management Division (MM), unit diary entries will be entered by Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC).  Commanders will prepare certificates of appointment in accordance with reference (a).  Marines selected for the next grade by a regular promotion board are still eligible for meritorious promotion to that grade if their seniority number has not been reached.<br>
3.  The FY20 meritorious promotion allocations are as follows:<br>
Command                                    SSgt/GySgt allocations<br>
Marine Corps Recruiting Command              <br>
(Prior Service Recruiters)                 1/1<br>
(Extended Active Duty Recruiters)          2/0<br>
Marine Forces Reserve<br>
(SMCR SNCO)                                4/2<br>
3.a.  Extended Active Duty Recruiter nominees must be received no later than 1 December 2019 and will have an effective date of 2 January 2020.<br>
3.b.  SMCR SNCO nominees must be received no later than 1 March 2020 and will have an effective date of 2 April 2020.<br>
3.c.  Prior Service Recruiter nominees must be received no later than 1 June 2020 and will have an effective date of 2 July 2020.<br>
3.d.  Nominations must be submitted to enlistedpromotions@usmc.mil to include the following:<br>
Rank     Name     EDIPI     MCC/Unit<br>
4.  For enlisted promotion matters call comm (703) 784-9717 or DSN 278-9718.  Email inquiries may be submitted to:  enlistedpromotions@usmc.mil.  Click on Compatibility View Settings in the options menu, and ensure that display intranet sites is unchecked.  This MARADMIN will be posted to the promotion branch website:  www.manpower.usmc.mil, select "Active Marine", "Manpower Management (MM)", "Promotion Branch", then "Enlisted Promotions".  From there, click on "Message Traffic", then "SNCO Messages", and then click on the Meritorious tab.<br>
5.  Release authorized by MajGen David A. Ottignon, Director, Manpower Management Division.