MARADMIN 687/19

FY20 First Term Alignment Program (FTAP) Quality Marine Identification (QMI) Eligibility Requirements

This MARADMIN announces updated eligibility criteria for the FY20 First Term Alignment Program (FTAP) Quality Marine Identification (QMI) program, which authorizes 100 reenlistment spaces for first-term Marines in closed Primary Military Occupational Specialties (PMOS). The program runs from July 5, 2019 through September 30, 2020, and requires Marines to meet specific tier, conduct, and reenlistment prerequisites to be eligible for Commanding General-endorsed QMI requests.

Issued: December 12, 2019

Personnel

1.  Purpose.  To announce updated change to the submissions criteria under the Quality Marine Identification (QMI) program.
2.  Situation. The Fiscal Year (FY) 2020 Active Component Accession and Retention Plan authorizes 100 QMI spaces.  This total may not be exceeded.  The FY20 FTAP reenlistment period began on 5 July 2019 and continues through 30 September 2020.  During this period, as a Primary Military Occupational Specialty (PMOS) reaches 100 percent executed, Marines in that PMOS are eligible to submit a Commanding General-endorsed QMI reenlistment request to MMEA.
3.  QMI eligibility requirements are:
3.a.  Computed Tier III or above (computed at time of fiscal year initial pull of 5 July 2019).
3.b.  No jeopardy (6105 or higher) within the last two years.
3.c.  Must meet all reenlistment prerequisites as defined in Chap 4, para 5 of ref (a), to include having no core values violations, no incidents of domestic violence, nor any violations of ref (c).
4.  QMI spaces are allocated as follows:
4.a.  Each Commanding General is authorized to submit one QMI request per PMOS.  Any additional requests will be returned with no action taken.
4.b.  CMC MMEA has the authority to close a PMOS for QMI submissions at any time based on the number of submissions.  These will be published via the Total Force Retention System.
5.  This MARADMIN is not applicable to the Marine Corps Reserve.
6.  Release authorized by MajGen  David A. Ottignon, Director, Manpower Management Division.