W. Va. Code R. § 141-31-1-2

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 141-31-1-2 - EXPLANATION OF TERMS

The following explanation of terms and abbreviations are to be utilized in the implementation of Officer Personnel Management System (OPMS):

a. Additional Skill Identifier (ASI): An identification of specific skills which are required to perform the duties of a position, but are not related to any one particular specialty. Also, an identification of the additional skills possessed by an officer.

b. Specialty Skill Identifier (SSI) : An identification of specific skill requirements within a specialty and the corresponding qualifications possessed by commissioned officers.

c. Advanced Entry Specialty (AES): A specialty in which most of the positions requirement are in the field grades and which is normally entered when an officer is a senior Captain or a Major.

d. Alternate Specialty (AS): A second specialty in addition to an officer's primary specialty, which is designated for the officer's professional development and utilization by the Army National Guard.

e. Assignment History/Record of Assignments: The official record of an officer's assignments as reflected by the duty title and position code of positions occupied as well as by other pertinent information such as assignment dates, organizations and stations.

f. Basic Branch Officers (BBO): ARNG Officers who are commissioned in one of the following branches: Adjutant General's Corps, Air Defense Artillery, Armor, Chemical Corps, Corps of Engineers, Field Artillery, Finance Corps, Infantry, Military Intelligence, Military Police Corps, Ordnance Corps, Quartermaster Corps, Signal Corps or Transportation Corps; and for whom the Army National Guard State Office Career Manager exercises specialty manager functions.

g. Basic Entry Specialty (BES): A specialty in which newly commissioned officers will normally receive their initial development.

h. Commissioned Officer Specialty Classification System (COSCS): The combination of specialty classification data elements (specialties, specialty skill identifiers, reporting classifications, additional skill identifiers, language identifiers) and related codes, data chains (position requirements, assignment history) standards of grade authorization, and procedures used to classify officer positions in authorization documents and to identify individuals qualified to perform in these positions.

i. Dual Specialty Development (DSD): The concept of officer professional development and utilization in which the objective is for each officer to gain and maintain proficiency in a primary and an alternate (secondary) specialty.

j. Language Identification Code (LIC): An identification of a requirement for or a qualification in a designated foreign language.

k. Multiple Skill Position (MSP): A position which requires more than one skill identified by specialty code, ASI, and/or LIC.

l. Position Requirement Code (PRC): The identification of the skills or qualifications required by an officer of the appropriate grade to effectively perform the duties of a position. It is represented by a data chain which includes the specialty code for the principal position requirement, the skill identifier required within that specialty, the specialty code for the secondary position requirement; if any, and any ASI or LIC requirements.

m. Primary Specialty (PRSPEC): The specialty designated for an officer by the Army National Guard which will receive initial emphasis in the professional development and utilization of the officer.

n. Principal Position Requirement (PPR) : The specialty associated with the principal skills required to perform the duties of a position.

o. Secondary Position Requirement (SPR): The specialty associated with the secondary skills required to perform the duties of a position.

p. Single Skill Position (SSP) : A position which requires skills associated with just one specialty.

q. Special Branch Officers (SBO): Officers who are commissioned in one of the Medical Department (specifically, Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Veterinary Corps, Army Medical Specialist Corps, Army Nurse Corps, and Medical Service Corps), the Chaplains Branch, and the Judge Advocate General's Corps.

r. Specialty: A grouping of duty positions having skill and job requirements which are mutually supporting the development of competence in an officer to perform through the grade of Colonel in the specialty.

s. State OPMS: (SOPMSM): That individual assigned at the state level in the Office of The Adjutant General, charged with the responsibility of implementation and administration Officer Personnel Management (OPMS) as it pertains to the Army National Guard.

t. Revision of The Military Occupational Specialty System (ROMOSS): A logical and rational system for the identification of skills required of and possessed by all commissioned officer in the Army National Gaurd.

u. Expanded Use of Additional Skill Identifiers (EASI) : A system utilized to identify a comprehensive effort to clearly define officer skill requirements.

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