PMI Application Guidance

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Please use the following template for all applications to the Permanent Military Instructor program. Be sure to include all relevant enclosures listed. Also, please redact all SSNs, birth dates, and other sensitive PII before sending your application.

The annual announcement message includes the application due date and how to submit your application.

Have your CO endorse your package before submitting to PERS-440.

APPLICATION FORMAT FOR PERMANENT MILITARY INSTRUCTOR (PMI) APPLICATIONS

From: Grade, Full Name, and Designator
To: Navy Personnel Command (PERS-440F)
Via: Commanding Officer

Subj: REQUEST FOR SELECTION AS A PERMANENT MILITARY INSTRUCTOR (PMI)

Ref:   (a) OPNAVINST 1520.40C

Encl: (1) Undergraduate and Graduate School Transcripts
      (2) Applicants Not Possessing A Master’s Degree:
          Graduate School Admissions Documentation
      (3) Other relevant material documenting qualifications
      (4) Performance Summary Report
      (5) Officer Summary Record
      (6) Most recent PRIMS data (BCA and PRT scores). If excused from most recent BCA or PRT, include all PRIMS data since the last PFA you fully participated in.
      (7) Last five Fitness Reports

1. I, (Applicant’s Name), request selection as a Permanent Military Instructor (PMI) at U.S. Naval Academy (USNA). I, (Applicant’s Name), meet all the eligibility requirements as specified in reference (a). The following information is provided:

    a. Date of commission
    
    b. Date of current rank
    
    c. Projected rotation date
    
    d. Years of active-duty service remaining after projected assignment to the USNA as a PMI until statutory retirement at current rank.

    e. Command name, command mailing address, UIC, phone number, e-mail, and postal address where I can be contacted at time of convening of selection board. If selected, I shall have XX months on board my current command when are scheduled to begin or upon transfer to USNA.

    f.  Using the list of fields listed in the current announcement (eligible academic disciplines determined annually) indicate the academic discipline(s) for which the applicant is applying for.
 
    g. For applicants with a relevant master's degree, provide the specific field or fields of graduate study qualifying for master’s work. Also include the name, position, title, and phone number of a reference who can comment on applicant's performance as a graduate student.
 
    h.  For applicants not possessing a master’s degree, provide letters of admission as enclosure (2) to this application, if already accepted; otherwise provide Graduate Record Examination score and date as enclosure (2). Note that funded master's programs will usually only be approved at the Naval Postgraduate School or civilian institutions in the Baltimore/Washington D.C. area.
 
    i.  Undergraduate, graduate, or other teaching experience. Cite years of experience, courses, institutions, supervisor's name, and phone number.  (Include any letters of recommendation as enclosure (3)). 
 
    j.  Applicant's reason for requesting designation as a PMI. 
 
    k.  Waiver 
 
        (1) If not warfare qualified, document request and rationale for a waiver of this criterion. 
 
        (2) If seeking to continue a master’s program not approved by this instruction or the applicable announcement for the year in which the officer is applying for admission to the PMI program; summarize the benefit of this course of action to the Navy and to USNA gaining the PMI at the conclusion of their studies.  
 
    l.  Acknowledgments (use subparagraph 1l(1) or subparagraph 1l(2) below, as appropriate): 
        (1) For applicants without a master’s degree.  I understand that upon acceptance to the PMI program, I will attend a Navy-approved academic institution full-time and that I am expected to complete a program within 24 months.  Upon completion of a master’s program, I will be assigned as an instructor at the USNA.  I understand that, upon accepting PMI status, I may be assigned to instruct at the USNA until my statutory retirement date, even if that date is later than obligated service derived from educational benefit programs or any other obligated service I have incurred.  I acknowledge that accepting PMI status is the equivalent of setting my end of obligated service to my statutory retirement date. Consideration of early release from that obligation will be processed by the Navy in the same manner as a request to be released from any active service obligation.  I understand this means that my release from active duty prior to my statutory retirement date or from any other aspect of PMI service obligation will only be as dictated by the needs of the Navy or as a result of demonstrated, substantial, and unforeseen personal hardship.  I understand that PMI program selectees compete for promotion in their current designator and that because PMIs may have served at USNA for an extended period of time prior to their in-zone look for promotion to O-5, PMIs may promote at lower rates when compared to other officers in their designator who stayed in the standard competitive category career path. 

		(2) For applicants with a master’s degree.  I understand that, upon selection as a PMI, I will be assigned to the USNA. I understand that, upon accepting PMI status, I may be assigned to instruct at the USNA until my statutory retirement date, even if that date is later than any other obligated service I have incurred.  I acknowledge that accepting PMI status is the equivalent of setting my end of obligated service to my statutory retirement date.  Consideration of early release from that obligation will be processed by the Navy in the same manner as a request to be released from any active service obligation. I understand this means that my release from active duty prior to my statutory retirement date or from any other aspect of PMI service obligation will only be as dictated by the needs of the Navy or as a result of demonstrated, substantial and unforeseen personal hardship.  I understand that PMI program selectees compete for promotion in their current designator and that because PMIs may have served at USNA for an extended period of time prior to their in-zone look for promotion to O-5, PMIs may promote at lower rates when compared to other officers in their designator who stayed in the standard competitive category career path. 
 
2.  I understand that, upon my selection and acceptance into the PMI program, my designator will not be changed, I will remain in my parent competitive category community, and I will not be entitled to special pays or bonuses for which I may have previously been eligible.  
 
 
 
Applicant's signature