West Virginia Code of State Rules › Agency 141 - Adjutant General › Title 141 - LEGISLATIVE RULE ADJUTANT GENERAL › Series 141-31 - Introduction To Officer Personnel Management System (OPMS) › Chapter 1 - INTRODUCTION TO OFFICER PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (OPMS) › Section 141-31-1-2 - EXPLANATION OF TERMS

Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 28, July 12, 2024
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.