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office. For example, when a service member gets
married, he or she must go to the personnel office
to initiate all the necessary paper work on behalf
of the new dependent. Leave papers are processed
in this office. Dependent and active duty ID card
applications and cards are also prepared.
Furthermore, members who are reporting aboard,
transferring, reenlisting, or separating from the
Navy will have the appropriate documents
prepared at the personnel office. The transactions
that take place in the personnel office will affect
nearly all areas of a Navy member’s life.
The size and composition of personnel offices
will vary from command to command and from
ship to ship. A common characteristic of all
personnel offices is that they are usually very
active because of the numerous personnel
transactions that continually take place. At sea,
PNs will work in the personnel or ship’s office. If
attached to a squadron, PNs will work out of an
office assigned to them by the ship’s commanding
officer (CO). This office is independent of the
personnel and/or the ship’s administrative offices.
Ashore, PNs are normally assigned to personnel
support activity detachments (PERSUPPDETS).
The following section will give you an overview of
the PERSUPPDETS.
PERSONNEL SUPPORT ACTIVITY
DETACHMENTS
The PERSUPPDETS, also referred to as
PSDs, are the one-stop service centers that retain
and maintain the pay accounts and service
records for all shore commands and activities
within a specific geographical area. All active
duty Navy personnel, including transients,
students, and patients attached to shore activities
and components, Naval Reserve activities, and
joint and unified commands within a prescribed
geographical area, are supported by that area’s
PERSUPPDETS. Figures 1-1 and 1-2 show PNs
providing customer service to Navy personnel at a
PERSUPPDET.
All PERSUPPDETS are supported by a
personnel support activity (PSA). The PSAs are
activities
that
manage
a
number
of
PERSUPPDETS within a geographical area. As
the command in charge of these PERSUPPDETS,
the PSA provides technical direction, guidance,
and assistance to all commands under its
authority.
The overall mission or goal of the
PERSUPPDETS is to provide pay and
personnel services to officer and enlisted naval
personnel and passenger transportation services
to all Navy-sponsored travelers; to provide
commands and activities with pay, personnel, and
Figure 1-1.—PN assisting customers at a PERSUPPDET.
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