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Agency 141 - Adjutant GeneralTitle 141 - LEGISLATIVE RULE ADJUTANT GENERALSeries 141-31 - Introduction To Officer Personnel Management System (OPMS)
Chapter 6 - OPMS CAREER PLANNING AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Section 141-31-6-2 - BASIC ELEMENTS

W. Va. Code R. § 141-31-6-2

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Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 50, December 13, 2024
Section 141-31-6-2 - BASIC ELEMENTS
a. OPMS Career Planning for all WVARNG officers involves the entire field of personnel management and facilitates the realization of the following objectives:
(1) Provide for the maximum development and full utilization of an officer's inherent abilities; aptitudes and interests, and the best use of his required skills and accumulated knowledge. It must be recognized that an officer makes maximum use of his/her talents and skills when their duty assignments are consistent with their capabilities.
(2) Proper career planning assists in building and maintaining a coprs of highly motivated and competent officers. This results in a more efficient and proficient Army National Guard for West Virginia.
(3) Careful career planning enables the WVARNG to fulfill its obligation to our national interests.
b. Orderly career planning requires early establishment of a program to provide for progressive duty assignment and maximum utilization of available military schooling in order to meet current needs and to develop necessary skills for future assingments. To insure success of the OPMS program in the WVARNG, the following policies and plans are hereby established:
(1) All officers are to be assigned according to the state requirements and to their individual qualifications, and that all qualifications are properly documented and made a matter of record in qualification files.
(2) The professional capabilities of all officers are developed through intelligently planned and progressive assignments to insure a sufficient number of qualified officers at all levels to accomplish our assigned missions.
(3) All officers have equal opportunity for promotion selection and for higher assignments on the basis of their demonstrated merit.
(4) All officers are to be counseled on a continuing systematic basis in order to provide them with accurate and adequate guidelines to properly guide and motivate them in their assignments. THIS IS A RESPONSIBILITY OF ALL RATERS.

W. Va. Code R. § 141-31-6-2