Qualitative Management Program (QMP) – The Defense Department currently has several proposals to cut costs, including reducing 127,000 active-duty members by 2017.

“The Army stands to lose 18,200 soldiers in the drawdown plan for 2015, through attrition and reduced accessions, but also with retention screening boards that may lead to soldiers being forced out.  Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said involuntary separation actions will be targeted at the various officer and noncommissioned officer ranks “to keep the force in balance,” and to compensate for the additional soldiers who were brought into service during the manpower buildup for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.” –Army Times Article

“The Qualitative Management Program (QMP) is being used as a blunt tool to reduce the force.” – Anita Gorecki-Robbins

If you reading this website, then you know that the QMP process continues to sadly roll on.

1. Qualitative Management Program (QMP)

UPDATE:  2022 – The QMP process is still moving forward and the next round should be in April.   If you have an Article 15 or General Officer Letter of Reprimand, Relief for Cause NCOER, you may be looked at this next time. If you have a GOMOR or Article 15, remember you can appeal it to theDepartment of the Army Suitability and Evaluation Board and request that it be removed or at a minimum moved to your restricted file – do not wait until you served with your QMP paperwork because GOMOR appeals take longer than the QMP board and it will be too late!

Ms. Gorecki-Robbins can review your entire file, look for legal errors and draft your appeal for you as well as submit a letter from her outlining all the legal issues that she has spotted as an enclosure to your appeal.  The appeal you submit is important but your enclosures are also extremely important – let Ms. Gorecki-Robbins walk and talk you through the best way to you present you case/career to the QMP Board.  Ms. Gorecki-Robbins has had clients retained but cautions that each cycle can be different and some Soldiers do not get retained – each case if different so call today for a free consultation. This really is the time to pullout all the stops because your career and retirement money is on the line!

UPDATE: January 2022, Ms. Gorecki-Robbins won 2 out of 3 appeals.

UPDATE: February 2020, Ms. Gorecki-Robbins won 3 out of 4 appeals. 

UPDATE: June, 2018, Ms. Gorecki-Robbins won 4 out of 5 appeals.

UPDATE: May 6, 2016 – Three Soldiers hired Ms. Gorecki-Robbins for their QMP appeals due February 2016, ALL were retained.

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“I just want to thank you for your work on my behalf and putting together a strong packet.  I will remain on Active Duty and not be put on any QMP board in the future. We did it! Thank you so much!!!” (February 26, 2019). C.C.

“After contacting several lawyers to assist me in the QMP process; I felt most comfortable with Anita.  She never made me feel less than for the circumstances I was in.  I knew immediately after our first conversation that she was competent to handle my case and would use the facts to my best interest.” SSG SJ (June 25, 2018)

“I was broadsided by the QMP notice. I was hurt and I was stressed – I had twelve days to pull together all the letters of mitigation and extenuating circumstance. I had to argue why I was good enough to still be an NCO, and I was afraid to ask for help for anything – but Anita was patient. Anita was kind. And she was a Pitbull – I survived the QMP because Anita advised, assisted, and wouldn’t rest until she was confident we were going to win. October 2015, I survived the QMP. Anita – thanks for everything! SSG J.H.

“Thank you Ms. Gorecki-Robbins! Being notified that I was selected for QMP was a professional low point.  I felt alone in the process and wasn’t sure how to present my case. Once I spoke to you, you took over and we started to develop a strategy for how to present my case and keep me retained. You made yourself available at any hour and on weekends.  Most importantly, you care about Soldiers – thank you again.” SFC E.W. (2017)

“Thank you for the help, I survived the QMP Board because of you.” SFC D.M. (2017)

 

2.  According to Army Regulation 635-200:

19–7. Selection criteria

QMP selection criteria include, but are not limited to—
a. Moral or ethical conduct incompatible with the values of the NCO corps and the Army ethic.

b. Lack of potential to perform NCO duties in current grade.

c. Decline in efficiency and performance over a continuing period, as reflected by noncommissioned officer evaluation report or failure of Noncommissioned Officer Education System (NCOES) courses.

d. Recent or continuing disciplinary problems, as evidenced by conviction by court-martial, nonjudicial punishment, or administrative reprimand.

e. Other discriminators such as imposition of a field commander’s bar to re-enlistment, inability to meet physical fitness standards, and failure to comply with requirements of the Army body composition program.

APPEALS – If the QMP Board after receiving your rebuttal still decides to separate you, you have two possible appeals. One is outlined in the link below dated 10 April 2014, which states that if you have “new discovered evidence” evidence, then you have 30 days to resubmit but you only gave 7 days to notify the Board that you plan to resubmit.  Lastly, you have the option to appeal to the Army Board of Corrections of Military Records.

 

LINK to AR 635-200, Chapter 19 (QMP), as of 10 APRIL 2014: Update to Chapter 19 as of 10 April 2014

AR 635-200 (click on Regulation below)

http://armypubs.army.mil/epubs/pdf/r635_200.pdf

 

If you are notified that you are going through the  QMP, call us today, your retirement and career depend on it.