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Navy enlisted EVALs · not officer FITREPs

Build your EVAL evidence.

Answer one useful question at a time. Review the facts, then create E1-E6 Block 43 member input.

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Your evidence. Action, scope, result, impact.

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Command decision. Ranking, traits, recommendation, RSCA.

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Private transcript. Explicit agreement; 90-day limit; no third-party analytics.

Adaptive Block 43 coach · E1-E6 only

Tell the coach what this EVAL should say.

Start with the work you want your chain to understand. The coach will help turn what you did during the period into specific, supportable evidence.

Required 90-day coach transcript · keep it releasable

The coach starts only after you agree below. This private VPS keeps the conversation, questions, answers, captured facts, and final or partial draft for 90 days to improve and troubleshoot the coach. Raw attachments and reviewed attachment text are excluded. There are no third-party analytics.

Never enter names, SSNs, DoD IDs, patient or medical details, classified/CUI, operational vulnerabilities, credentials, family matters, or unresolved investigations.

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A little context firstThen tell the coach what you did and what you want the EVAL to show.

Next: identify the report and the time it covers.

Learning center

How an enlisted EVAL actually moves

Your input matters, but it is one part of a command-owned process.

  1. 01
    DocumentKeep dates, scope, action, result, impact, and proof.
  2. 02
    Submit inputGive your chain specific, verifiable evidence.
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    Rater draftsThe rating chain validates and shapes the report.
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    Reporting senior decidesTraits, comparison, recommendation, and final report.
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    You reviewYour signature acknowledges receipt, not agreement.
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    Record receives itAccepted reports support advancement and board review.
E1-E6: what Block 43 should prove

Concise comments should support the performance traits with specific, verifiable accomplishments. Show personal contribution and mission or command impact. Use ordinary language, useful numbers, and clear attribution.

  • Professional knowledge and quality of work
  • Command/organizational climate and equal opportunity
  • Military bearing and character
  • Personal job accomplishment and initiative
  • Teamwork and leadership
E7-E9: a different CHIEFEVAL

The current CHIEFEVAL uses NAVPERS 1616/27, seven CPO traits, and separate trait-comment spaces. It is not a larger Block 43, and this writer intentionally does not generate it.

What the official input worksheet asks for

Duties and months; customers and equipment; individual and team accomplishments; supervision and subordinate development; resources; instruction and counseling; qualifications, courses, awards, education, civic activity, and future duties.

Expectations, counseling, and the worksheet

The performance cycle starts before the write-up: expectations should be set within 30 days, with counseling during the report period. The standard EVAL form is also used as the performance-counseling worksheet. Your end-of-cycle input should build on that record—not be the first time performance is discussed.

Why specific beats impressive-sounding

Weak: “Helped the division succeed through outstanding leadership.”

Better shape: “Trained [verified number] Sailors on [task]; [verified result], improving [mission effect].”

Regular periodic ending dates
E5 · 15 MarchE4 · 15 JuneE1-E3 · 15 JulyE7-E8 generally · 15 SeptemberE6 and CMDCS · 15 November

Detachment, promotion/frocking, concurrent, special, and other occasions have separate rules. Regular periodic E9 reports were removed by NAVADMIN 132/26.

Names, rankings, and recommendation language

A member can provide facts. The reporting senior owns current peer comparison, forced distribution, recommendation, and final content. This site carries exact current-report command wording only after explicit attestation.

Navy language, translated

Evaluation & advancement glossary

Search the same curated dictionary the interview coach uses.

Advancement

How advancement works now

There is no single current flow for every Sailor. This library starts with paygrade, component, rating, and the current governing message.

Current answer

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Accepted EVALsPerformance recordRecommendations, traits, narrative, continuity
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NSIPSEnlisted Advancement WorksheetAuthoritative eligibility and advancement data
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Exam/FMSNWAE or RKE; board where applicableBBARKE/FMS eligibility, then A2P or command CA2PSEMBoard screen, then A2P or ARA alignment

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Official sources behind this library

Recommendation limits

Comparison belongs to the command

The EVALMAN limits Early Promote to 20 percent of each enlisted summary group, rounded up. For E5-E6, Early Promote plus Must Promote is limited to 60 percent, rounded up. E1-E4 have no combined EP+MP limit. Use Table 1-2 for groups of 30 or fewer and the instruction's special rules.

20%EP formula

For enlisted summary groups; rounded up.

60%E5-E6 combined formula

EP plus MP; rounded up. E1-E4 have no combined limit.

100%Command accountability

The reporting senior owns every final decision.

Validated updates

Enlisted evaluation & advancement news

Hourly official NAVADMIN/ALNAV checks and one bounded weekly discovery pass. Evidence is reviewed before anything appears here.

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Secondary reporting is always labeled and never changes policy or the writer. Learning updates require direct official authority and unanimous exact-evidence review; other policy-impact items remain operator-reviewed.

Official desk

Current governing sources

Checked 11 August 2026. Always verify that a document has not been superseded.

BUPERSINST 1610.10H CH-2Current EVALMAN · 26 May 2026 Performance Evaluation formsNAVPERS 1616/26 and current software NEOCS Volume IRatings and occupational standards BUPERSINST 1430.16HEnlisted advancement manual · Jan 2026 Apprentice AdvancementsCurrent E1-E4 TIS construct and exceptions Enlisted Advancement WorksheetOfficial NSIPS EAW and ESO guidance NAVADMIN 168/26Cycle 272 E5/E6 and RKE guidance NAVADMIN 075/26FY27 CPO screening and selection populations BBA Handbook 3.0Billet-Based Advancement · Mar 2026 SEM FAQ Rev. 1Senior Enlisted Marketplace · 1 Jul 2026 NAVADMIN 2026 archiveCurrent official administrative messages ALNAV 2026 archiveCurrent official all-Navy messages