scope:

Purpose. a. This regulation prescribes the officer evaluation function of the military personnel system. It is linked to AR 600-8 and provides principles of support, standards of service, policies, tasks, rules, and steps governing all work required in the field to support the Officer Evaluation System (OES) and Officer Evaluation Reporting System (OERS). It also provides guidance regarding redress programs including commander inquiries and appeals.

b. Requests for clarifications or exceptions to policy should be sent to PERSCOM (TAPC-MSE), 200 Stovall Street, Alexandria, VA 22332-0442.

c. Correspondence course training covering administrative processing of the Officer Evaluation Report (OER) is available. Additional information is available in DA Pam 351-20.

Applicability. This regulation applies to all Active Army officers and Title 10 officers of the Army National Guard of the United States (ARNGUS) effective on 1 October 1997. This regulation applies to all other ARNGUS officers and to Army Reserve (USAR) officers on 1 October 1997, in part, only to the extent that it deals with preparing and using the new Support Form (DA Form 67-9-1). (The Support Form information is contained in chapter 3, section 2.)

This regulation is effective on 1 June 1998 for all ARNGUS officers (except Title 10 officers) and on 1 October 1998 for all USAR officers. The 15 November 1981 version of AR 623-105 (contained in Personnel Evaluations UPDATE handbook 6) will remain in effect for ARNGUS officers (except Title 10 officers) and all USAR officers until these respective effective dates.