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As a general rule, compensation is valid only when
the quantity or quality requirement is removed from one
billet and the corresponding quantity or quality
requirement is applied to another billet. Compensation
can neither be stored nor accumulated.
Even though an immediate requirement for
personnel to satisfy approved manpower changes may
exist, fiscal constraints, individual considerations, and
nonavailability of distributable personnel assets may
prevent early fulfillment of billet requirements.
DESIGNATION OF BILLETS FOR
ENLISTED WOMEN
Women in the Navy have an equal opportunity for
assignment to all billets for which qualified and not
otherwise prevented by law. However, in the interest of
efficient distribution and use of personnel, procedures
have been established to identify certain billets ashore
as requiring women petty officers. The determining
factor is the number of women petty officers relative to
the total number of distributable personnel. There is, as
a result, a need to make sure a minimum number of each
are detailed to activities as required by activity function.
The conversion NEC WP-9999 has been authorized
for use in identifying billets requiring women petty
officers. This NEC may be used as either a primary or
secondary NEC on MPAs. The intent is to make sure the
activity is detailed sufficient women petty officers to till
functions involving supervision, training, and
counseling of enlisted women. Examples of appropriate
billets are enlisted women’s quarters (EWQ) managers,
recruit training command (RTC) company
commanders, or billets in correctional centers involving
confinement of women.
Commanding officers should identify billets
qualifying for NEC WP-9999 and submit appropriate
MPA change requests. Use of this NEC must be
adequately justified. Be prepared, cm request, to provide
continued justification for such billet coding.
The manpower claimants should evaluate requests
for billet coding in light of the previous guidance and
the Navy Equal Opportunity Program.
The DCNO should evaluate requests for billet
coding and approve or disapprove as appropriate.
REQUESTING CHANGES
The MPA is prepared on OPNAV Form 1000/2.
Requests for changes to the MPA must be submitted on
the Manpower Authorization Change Request, OPNAV
Form 1000/4A, except when requesting minor changes.
The Manual of Navy Total Force Manpower Policies
and Procedures, OPNAVINST 1000.16G, contains
information on the block descriptions and procedures
for completing OPNAV Form 1000/4A. You should
study and understand all applicable portions of this
manual when you prepare a request to change your
activity’s MPA.
Submit requests of a routine nature separately from
those that involve policy changes. This will expedite
processing of routine change requests. To make sure an
accurate data base exists to support the ER process,
changes will not be accepted for the MPA while an ER
study is being conducted. This freeze will be effective 3
months before the scheduled start date of the ER and
continue until implemented. When submitting MPA
change requests for implementation of ER most
efficient organizations (MEOs), use the designated
input function in the Manpower Claimant Access
Support System (MANCLASS). Procedures for
preparing the implementing manpower change requests
for the ER MEO are contained in OPNAVINST
1000.16G. Routine MPA change requests are submitted
according to the Manpower Claimant Access Support
System (MANCLASS) Users Manual.
The completed Manpower Authorization Change
Request, OPNAV Form 1000/4A, is forwarded with a
cover letter that must explain the requested changes,
reasons for the changes, compensation available if
required, uncompensated requirements, and the
justification for these requirements. If the request is not
a result of the scheduled annual manpower review or ER
MEO, explain the mission or function changes or other
impacts imposed by higher authority that necessitate a
change in manpower requirements.
Bold, legible hand-printing is quite acceptable on
OPNAV Form 1000/4A. The expense of typing these
forms is seldom warranted. The expense of
photographically reducing these forms is never warranted
because a new MPA can only be generated with a
keypunch operation that uses completed full-size OPNAV
Forms 1000/4A. Separate OPNAV Forms 1000/4A must
be prepared to request changes to officer and enlisted
MPAs. When either an officer or enlisted change request
is prepared, consideration must be given to all officer or
all enlisted billets in the activity that will be affected by
the change. Unless a complete reorganization is being
requested, only those billets to be added, changed, or
deleted are entered on the OPNAV Form 1000/4A. The
original and two copies (not reproductions) of the
completed OPNAV Form 1000/4A and the original
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