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Unit Supply Specialist

E-5 (Sergeant) · Army

E1–E3E-4E-5E-6E-7E8–E9
HEADS UP

Sergeant E-5 92Y is the first rank where the Army stops promoting you on points and starts promoting you on judgment. You are the company supply sergeant — the doctrinal junior-NCO billet that owns the company commander's signed property book under AR 735-5, runs the daily supply operation, and is the company's daily face to the BSB property book office and the brigade S-4. The promotion math runs through the same semi-centralized HRC system as E-4 under AR 600-8-19: 48 months TIS / 10 months TIG (waivable), DA 3355 worksheet, max 800 points, monthly MOS-specific cutoff. ALC at Fort Gregg-Adams is the STEP gate for SSG. The 920A Property Accounting Technician warrant officer conversation is now on the table for the technically deep SGT with command endorsement.

The Honest MOS Read
Sergeant 92Y is the rank where the Army's professional NCO Corps actually starts for the supply career. The first 90 days as a SGT are the steepest leadership learning curve in the 92Y enlisted side — you went from being responsible for the daily transactions to being responsible for a 2-3 soldier supply section that has its own marriages, debts, custody issues, off-post incidents, and Article 15 risk on top of running the company commander's signed property book under AR 735-5. Your supply sergeant job description (per ATP 6-22.1 and ADP 6-22, applied to the 92Y context) is mission first, soldiers always; in practice it is mission first, soldier-counseling-session at 2200 always, sleep eventually, and the cyclic inventory section closed in GCSS-Army before the company commander's Monday update. The doctrinal junior-NCO billet for 92Y is company supply sergeant. You own the company commander's signed property book under AR 735-5 — the legal accountability of every piece of company property from the M4 carbines in the arms room to the NVGs in the platoon supply rooms to the OCIE in the soldiers' wall lockers to the Class VII end items (vehicles, weapons, communications equipment) on the company's MTO&E or TDA. The company commander's signature is on the master hand receipt; your signature is on the sub-hand receipt from the property book officer; the platoon sergeants' signatures are on the sub-sub-hand receipts from you; the individual soldiers' signatures are on the personal hand receipts from the platoon sergeants. The chain is the legal spine of the company's readiness, and you are the NCO who keeps it intact. The promotion math for E-6 Staff Sergeant runs through the same semi-centralized HRC system as E-5 under AR 600-8-19: 48 months TIS / 10 months TIG (waivable), DA Form 3355 promotion-point worksheet, max 800 points, monthly MOS-specific cutoff. The differentiator from E-4-to-E-5 is that the chain of command's recommendation carries materially more weight at this gate, and the Army's E-6 inventory math for 92Y is somewhat tighter than the E-5 inventory math because the SSG slate funds platoon sergeant / SSA NCOIC / battalion S-4 NCOIC billets at the company-and-battalion level. 92Y is a high-density MOS so the cutoff scores tend to run at the lower end of the points spread, but the chain-recommendation gate is real. The Advanced Leader Course (ALC) at the Sustainment Center of Excellence at Fort Gregg-Adams (renamed from Fort Lee in 2023) is the STEP gate for E-6 — verify current course length and curriculum via the SCoE schoolhouse catalog and ATRRS. Your job content at E-5 in a company supply room is supply sergeant, period. You own the company commander's signed property book (sub-hand-receipt chain accountability, cyclic inventory cycles, sub-hand-receipt sign-off, the master file in iPERMS), the daily supply operation (GCSS-Army transactions across supply / property book / equipment / maintenance modules, customer-service counter coverage, the document register reconciliation), the section's 2-3 soldiers (typically a SPC backup, a cherry from AIT, and sometimes a supply augmentee from the line companies), monthly DA Form 4856 counselings on each soldier in the section (AR 623-3 requires it; the senior rater quotes them at the NCOER review), Change of Primary Hand Receipt Holder inventories at company commander change of command (the 100% serialized-and-sensitive walk-through that defines the company's readiness rating during command transition), and the front line of NCOER input on your soldiers' careers. The platoon sergeants (E-7s in the line platoons) are your primary internal customers; the 1SG is your immediate supervisor for company-level matters; the BSB property book office NCO (typically an E-6 / E-7) and the 920A Property Accounting Technician warrant officer are your external supply chain. The school slots become career-defining at this rank. ALC (Advanced Leader Course) at the Sustainment Center of Excellence at Fort Gregg-Adams is the next-up STEP gate. The Basic Logistics Course / various Army Logistics University and CASCOM courses, the SAMS / GCSS-Army advanced operator courses (verify current course catalog against the Army Logistics University guidance), the Senior Logistics NCO professional development courses, Air Assault (if the unit drops at an Air Assault-qualified post), Combat Lifesaver (CLS), and Hazmat / hazardous materials handling certifications are the visible signals of competence. The 920A Automotive Maintenance Warrant Officer packet conversation has shifted — for 92Y, the parallel technical-track warrant is the 920A Property Accounting Technician (note: 920A is the property book technician warrant; the 920B is the Supply Systems Technician warrant). The 920A path is the senior technical authority on the brigade's property accountability — the bridge between the company supply rooms and the BSB property book office, and the formal advisor to the BSB / brigade commanders on property accountability. Talk to the BSB 920A warrant officer about the packet build window at this rank. The first major life-decision window also opens at E-5 in 92Y. Re-enlistment math (the 92Y SRB tier under the current HRC SRB MILPER; the 92Y MOS is high-density so the bonus tends to be modest unless retention math shifts), school-of-choice reenlistment options, the 920A Property Accounting Technician warrant officer packet consideration, the OCS / Green-to-Gold commissioning path if the SGT is degree-credentialed and command-encouraged, and the civilian post-service market read. The civilian supply chain market for a 92Y SGT with CPIM / CSCP, a clearance, supply sergeant experience under AR 735-5, and a clean record is structurally one of the strongest post-service profiles in the Army CSS community — major retail and 3PL employers (Amazon's warehouse and supply chain veteran hiring programs, Walmart distribution, Target distribution, the major 3PL providers — XPO, Geodis, DHL Supply Chain, FedEx Supply Chain), public-sector supply chain roles (federal supply chain analyst / supply technician at GS-9 to GS-11 entry for veteran credentialed soldiers with supply sergeant experience, state and municipal supply chain roles), and defense contractor supply chain (the major defense primes all hire veteran 92Y SGTs aggressively into logistics and supply chain career tracks, often at GS-9 / GS-11 federal equivalent or $70K-$95K corporate entry depending on cert stack, clearance, and metro). The 92Y → 92Z consolidation reality at the senior NCO level is worth knowing now. At E-8 MSG and above, the Army consolidates the 92-series logistics MOSes (92A Automated Logistical Specialist, 92F Petroleum Supply Specialist, 92G Culinary Specialist, 92R Parachute Rigger, 92Y Unit Supply Specialist) into the 92Z Senior Noncommissioned Logistician MOS for the SGM track. The SGT 92Y who is angling for the senior NCO track should start broadening logistics exposure now — cross-functional opportunities on the BSB staff, exposure to the SSA / petroleum / culinary operations through joint training events, and the 92Z scope conversations with the BSB SPO sergeant major. The 92Z is not a different MOS at SGT — but the senior NCO trajectory is shaped now.
Career Arc
  • 01E-5 pin-on (post-BLC, post-promotion-point cutoff, post-chain-recommendation under AR 600-8-19).
  • 02First 90 days as company supply sergeant: counseling cadence (DA Form 4856 monthly per soldier), property book sub-hand-receipt cycle ownership, cyclic inventory rhythm.
  • 03First Change of Primary Hand Receipt Holder inventory at company commander change of command — 100% serialized-and-sensitive walk-through under AR 710-2 / AR 735-5.
  • 04First major school slot: ALC at Fort Gregg-Adams (Sustainment Center of Excellence) — the STEP gate for E-6 SSG.
  • 05Army COOL credential stack progression: APICS / ASCM CSCP (the senior civilian supply chain credential), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt, CLTD progression, the federal supply chain career-feeder credentials.
  • 06First re-enlistment window at SGT — SRB consideration per current HRC SRB MILPER, school-of-choice options, station-of-choice, stabilization.
  • 07920A Property Accounting Technician warrant officer packet conversation for the technically deep SGT with command endorsement.
  • 08Promotion to E-6: 48 months TIS / 10 months TIG (waivable), DA 3355 worksheet (max 800 pts), ALC complete, cutoff score, chain release.
Common Screwups
  • ×Skipping the monthly counseling (DA Form 4856) on your soldiers. AR 623-3 requires it, NCOERs reference it, and 'no counseling on file' is the legal defense gap that gets a bad soldier a reduced-charge outcome six months later — and the SGT eats the relief-for-cause counseling for not documenting.
  • ×DUI / Article 15 at the SGT rank under AR 27-10 — promotion flag under AR 600-8-19, demotion risk, NCOER blast, clearance issues, and a year of being the cautionary tale in the company TOC. The civilian supply chain market also reads criminal history; supply sergeant experience is one of the most clearance-sensitive enlisted profiles because of the signed-for property responsibility.
  • ×Closing a FLIPL with 'I don't know' findings as the investigating officer. The property book officer will send it back; the company commander will lose confidence in you that day. AR 735-5 requires defensible findings — preponderance of evidence, identified responsible party (or determined no responsible party), recommended financial liability. Phoning the FLIPL ends the SGT's credibility with the property book officer.
  • ×Re-enlisting without reading the current HRC SRB MILPER. 92Y SRB tiers move cycle to cycle; the wrong contract terms (rank / zone / MOS conversion / school-of-choice waiver) lock the SGT in for 6 years on terms that may not match the career picture. The 92Y SRB historically runs modest given the high-density MOS — run the math twice.
  • ×Burning the relationship with the 920A warrant officer or the BSB property book office NCO by going around them to the company commander or the BSB CDR. The 920A / 920B WO community is small and the senior NCO supply community is smaller; the read travels through the brigade S-4 to the BSB SPO sergeant major in a week. AR 600-20 (Army Command Policy) is the reg the BSB CSM quotes when a chain-of-command bypass surfaces.

A Day in the Life

  • 0500Wake. Coffee. Phone check for any section emergencies — soldier in jail, family deathgram, missed accountability, a property issue that came in over the weekend. None? Good. PT uniform on.
  • 0530PT formation in the company area. As the supply sergeant you take accountability for your section (2-3 soldiers), report to the 1SG, who reports to the company commander. Missing soldier = your problem first.
  • 0545-0700Unit PT — cardio / strength / recovery on rotation. Wednesdays the company runs together; Tue / Thu you may break out and run the section's plan. You set the pace the section has to match. The BSB CSM tracks supply-section aggregate scores.
  • 0700-0830Hygiene, breakfast at the DFAC, OCPs on. Walk to the supply room. Open the office; pull the night-shift hand-over notes (rare in a standard company supply room, daily in a high-OPTEMPO environment); check the GCSS-Army document register from overnight.
  • 0830-0900Company / supply room formation. The 1SG briefs the day. You confirm accountability and the day's tasks with your section; you brief the 1SG on any supply-related input (a cyclic inventory closing today, a Class IX item on order with an ETA update, an OCIE issue cycle for new arrivals).
  • 0900-1030GCSS-Army production review. Open documents from yesterday, suspense file follow-ups, parts-on-order status, customer service follow-up calls. The SPC handles the counter; you handle the harder transactions and the property book reconciliation.
  • 1030-1130Counseling session on one of the section's soldiers — DA Form 4856 walked through, Plan of Action signed before the soldier walks out. The discipline of monthly counselings runs through this slot. The supply sergeant whose file is current is the supply sergeant the 1SG defends; the supply sergeant whose file is hollow is the one the 1SG distances from when a soldier issue surfaces.
  • 1130-1300Chow. You eat with the other SGTs in the company. The 1SG and the senior NCOs eat at their own table; the SPCs eat at theirs. The cultural separation by rank is real and not optional.
  • 1300-1430Cyclic inventory walk on the section being inventoried this week. You walk the property item-by-item with the sub-hand-receipt holder (typically a platoon sergeant); you document shortages on a shortage annex; you reconcile against GCSS-Army before the property book officer reviews. The discipline is the same every week.
  • 1430-1530NCOER input window (quarterly cycle) or NCOER drafting time (annual cycle for your direct soldiers). You draft input on the section's soldiers — quantified bullets backed by specific accomplishments during the rating period. The senior rater will quote your draft at the rating board.
  • 1530-1630Coordination time. Phone calls / emails with the BSB property book office NCO, the 920A warrant officer, the platoon sergeants in the line platoons. The four-way coordination structure runs daily; the supply sergeant who phones the coordination calls loses the relationships within a quarter.
  • 1630Final formation with the company. The 1SG gives the next day's plan; you brief any supply-related input. Tool turn-in, hand-receipt verifications closed for the day, supply room locked.
  • 1700Released. Most garrison days. CIF surge days, CTC pre-rotation property issue events, PCS-season turn-in cycles, and Change of Primary Hand Receipt Holder inventory weeks change this.
  • 1700-2000Personal time. If you are married, family time. If you are single in the barracks, gym, study (APICS / ASCM CSCP prep, ALC distance-learning module, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt prep). If you are working a school packet (ALC, the 920A warrant officer packet), prep time.
  • 2000-2200If a soldier in your section called you with a problem — financial, marital, legal — you are on the phone or in his BEQ room. The SGT's after-hours job starts here, not earlier.
  • 2200Lights out. Tomorrow starts at 0500.
  • Change of Primary Hand Receipt Holder inventory week (company commander change of command)The single highest-visibility supply event in any 12-24 month window. You pre-stage the inventory for weeks — walk the property, identify and resolve discrepancies, build the paper trail, brief the 920A warrant officer on the master file. The inventory day itself runs the outgoing and incoming commanders through 100% serialized and sensitive items. A clean close is the SGT's biggest singular professional accomplishment in the SGT-track rating period.

Weekly Cadence

The Mon-Fri rhythm in a 92Y company supply room at the SGT level runs on the property book cycle, the cyclic inventory calendar, the company commander's update schedule, and the 1SG's task list. Monday is the heaviest planning day for the supply sergeant because four calendars hit at once — the company is back from the weekend with the soldiers who need replacement OCIE or hand-receipt sub-issues, the cyclic inventory section for the week needs the first physical walk, the company commander's weekly supply update is on the 1SG's schedule, and the BSB property book office NCO has the brigade-level reporting cycle due. You spend the first hour reconciling the GCSS-Army document register from Friday's close-of-business through Monday morning; you spend the next two hours building the company commander's weekly supply slide deck; you build the section's training and task list for the rest of the week. Tuesday through Thursday is the production rhythm at the SGT level. The SPC and the cherries handle the customer-service line; you handle the harder transactions, the property book reconciliations, and the coordination calls with the BSB property book office NCO and the 920A warrant officer. Cyclic inventory work continues on the assigned section. Sub-hand-receipt cycle work — quarterly inventory walks with the platoon sergeants, sign-off cycles with the holding NCOs. Counseling rhythms — DA Form 4856 monthly per soldier, blocked 30 minutes per soldier in your calendar and kept. NCOER input cycles — quarterly, with annual NCOER drafting time for the soldiers under your rater authority. Sergeant's Time Training (STT) — the unit-level NCO-driven training time under ATP 7-22.7 / DA PAM 350-58 — is where you run lanes for the section. STT is the differentiator at this rank. The good supply sergeant runs STT lanes (a GCSS-Army module-depth walk, a FLIPL drill, a Change of Primary Hand Receipt Holder inventory rehearsal, an Army COOL credential prep block) that the 1SG and the property book officer want to come watch; the average supply sergeant phones STT in with a PowerPoint and the section walks away with nothing learned. Friday is usually company-level training (PT, awards formation, 1SG inspection, brigade BUB prep) and release. The week's other rhythm is administrative. School packets (ALC, the 920A warrant officer packet build), leave requests under AR 600-8-10, family-care plans under DA Form 5305 (mandatory for sole/dual military parents) live in iPERMS and the unit S-1. The SGT who keeps her section's admin clean has a 1SG who actually listens when she asks for the next school slot. Field rotations (CTC train-ups, the BCT's deployment cycle pre-mission training, the brigade's exercise calendar), Change of Primary Hand Receipt Holder inventory weeks, and PCS-season surges (the supply room's busiest cycles of the year) collapse this rhythm — when the supply room is in surge mode, garrison-time is for sleep, range support, and the documentation you owe before the next event starts. The brigade BUB on Monday is the rhythm-resetter; the supply sergeant walks into Monday morning with the section's status defensible before the 1SG asks.

Key Skills — How to Drill Each

  1. 01
    Write a clean, legally defensible DA Form 4856 counseling — Plan of Action specific, measurable, signed before the soldier walks out of your office.
    Counseling is a contract under AR 623-3. Write the magic-paragraph Plan of Action in second person ('You will complete the APICS / ASCM CPIM Module 1 prep by 15 October; you will be at GCSS-Army training in the BSB conference room at 0900 on the following dates...'), put the deliverable, the date, and the signature line on the page, and have the soldier sign before he leaves your office. The Army's electronic templates help, but ink-on-paper still gets signed in front of you. The SJA's whole job on Article 15 day or FLIPL day is to defend a counseling chain — make their job easy. The supply sergeant whose counseling file is current is the supply sergeant the 1SG and the company commander defend when something goes wrong; the supply sergeant whose file is hollow is the one they distance from.
  2. 02
    Run a Change of Primary Hand Receipt Holder inventory to the AR 710-2 / AR 735-5 standard — 100% of serialized items, sensitive items, and a sampling of expendables.
    Change of Primary Hand Receipt Holder inventory is the high-visibility event that occurs every 12-24 months at company commander change of command. The discipline: 100% physical verification of every serialized item under the outgoing commander's signature (every M4 / M249 / M240 / M2 by serial number, every NVG, every radio, every Class VII end item), 100% verification of sensitive items (the arms room weapons, the controlled items in the supply room, the COMSEC items if applicable), sampling of expendables. The inventory is conducted jointly by the outgoing and incoming commanders with the supply sergeant running the physical walk; the inventory paperwork is signed by both commanders and becomes the new commander's liability under AR 735-5. The supply sergeant pre-stages the inventory cleanly — walks the property weeks before the actual event, identifies and resolves discrepancies before the commanders arrive, builds the paper trail in advance, ensures the BSB property book office NCO and the 920A warrant officer have reviewed the GCSS-Army master file. The change of command inventory is the supply sergeant's biggest singular test in any 12-month window; the read on the supply sergeant's competence is set by how cleanly the inventory closes.
  3. 03
    Run a Financial Liability Investigation of Property Loss (FLIPL, DD Form 200) from initiation through findings — investigator side, not respondent side.
    FLIPL is the legal mechanism the chain uses to assign financial liability for lost / damaged property under AR 735-5. As a SGT, the supply sergeant is frequently appointed as the FLIPL investigator for property losses in his company. The discipline: read the appointment memo carefully; review all the supporting documentation (hand receipts, sub-hand receipts, sign-out logs, witness statements, the GCSS-Army audit trail); interview the named respondents and the witnesses; assemble the evidence; write defensible findings (preponderance of evidence, identified responsible party or determined no responsible party, recommended financial liability or determined no liability is appropriate); route through the chain on time. The findings must be defensible at the property book officer's review and ultimately at the appointing commander's decision. A FLIPL that closes with 'I don't know' findings gets sent back; the property book officer loses confidence in the supply sergeant; the company commander reads it at the BSB synch. Phoning the FLIPL ends the SGT's credibility with the senior supply community.
  4. 04
    Brief the company commander on supply readiness in three slides — property book status, GCSS-Army transaction posture, Class IX flow and OCIE turn-in cycle status — without follow-up questions.
    The supply sergeant briefs the company commander weekly at the company commander's update. The format: a one-slide property book status (sub-hand-receipt cycle currency, cyclic inventory progress against the cycle calendar, any open shortages or FLIPLs in motion, any 1687 currency issues), a one-slide GCSS-Army transaction posture (document register cleanliness, any suspended or stuck transactions, the customer-service throughput rate), and a one-slide Class IX flow and OCIE turn-in cycle status (open requisitions by priority designator and ETA, any deadlined Class IX items affecting maintenance, the PCS-season OCIE turn-in projection if applicable). Three slides; no jargon the company commander has to translate; honest about uncertainty. The supply sergeant who builds the briefing rhythm at SGT is the SSG who can defend the company supply room at the brigade BUB years from now; the supply sergeant who shows up to the commander's update with no slides and a verbal report loses the commander's confidence within the first quarter.
  5. 05
    Mentor the SPCs and cherries in the supply section on GCSS-Army module depth, DA 1687 binder discipline, Army COOL credential progression, and BLC prep.
    Mentoring at the SGT level is the function the 1SG and the senior rater grade the SGT on the hardest. The SPCs and cherries in the section watch how the SGT handles transactions, how she reads a hand receipt, how she interacts with the BSB property book office NCO, and how she defends the supply room's posture at the commander's update. They mimic what they see. The SGT who walks the cherries through their first cyclic inventory, supervises their first sub-hand-receipt cycle, sits with them through the GCSS-Army training environment, and pushes the BLC packet through ATRRS for the SPC who is ready is the SGT who produces the section's next supply sergeant. By the time the SGT pins SSG, her SPC should be the company's next supply sergeant and the cherries should be the section's next SPC leads. That pipeline is the visible signal at the SSG board.
  6. 06
    Coordinate laterally with the BSB property book office NCO, the 920A warrant officer, the platoon sergeants in the line platoons, and the company 1SG — the four-way conversation that drives every supply decision.
    The supply sergeant operates inside a four-way coordination structure. The platoon sergeants are the internal customers — the NCOs who hold the sub-sub-hand receipts for their platoons and who need the supply room to support their training calendars. The 1SG is the immediate supervisor for company-level matters — counselings, NCOERs, FLIPLs, the company commander's read. The BSB property book office NCO (typically an E-6 / E-7) is the external supply chain to the company supply room — the senior NCO who reconciles the brigade-level property book against the company supply rooms and who supports the supply sergeant on harder reconciliations. The 920A warrant officer in the BSB property book office is the senior technical authority on the brigade's property accountability and the SGT's mentor for the warrant officer track conversation. The supply sergeant who builds clean working relationships with all four — patient communication, predictable follow-through, honest about uncertainty — is the supply sergeant the brigade S-4 names without thinking. The supply sergeant who burns one of those relationships finds the other three close.

Manuals & References — What Chapters Matter

  • AR 710-2 + AR 735-5 — Supply policy and property accountability (own both cover-to-cover at the SGT level)
    At SGT, the supply sergeant is expected to quote AR 710-2 and AR 735-5 chapter and paragraph for any supply discipline or property accountability question. AR 710-2 chapter on hand receipt management, AR 710-2 chapter on inventory procedures, AR 735-5 FLIPL chapter, AR 735-5 responsibility-and-accountability chapters — all need to be cold-readable. The property book officer and the 920A warrant officer will pop-quiz the supply sergeant during the workday; the SGT who can answer is the SGT the warrant trusts with the harder reconciliation work and the 1SG defends at the company commander's update.
  • ATP 4-42 — General Supply and Field Services Operations; ATP 4-43 — Petroleum Supply Operations; ATP 4-44 — Water Support Operations
    ATP 4-42 is the doctrinal spine for the unit-level supply mission. ATP 4-43 (petroleum) and ATP 4-44 (water support) become relevant if the supply sergeant is in a BSB or supports a unit that task-organizes Class III / water with Class IX / OCIE. The supply sergeant in a BSB reads all three at least once; the supply sergeant in a small unit reads ATP 4-42 cover-to-cover and skims the other two. The BSB SPO sergeant major will quote ATP 4-42 in the morning brief; the SGT who can quote it back is the SGT who reads ahead.
  • AR 600-20 — Army Command Policy (the SHARP / EO / accountability spine the SGT now enforces)
    AR 600-20 is the command policy regulation the SGT now enforces in the section. Chapter 7 (SHARP) — the 24-hour and 72-hour reporting windows are non-negotiable. Chapter 4 (EO), chapter 5 (anti-extremism), chapter 6 (relationships and prohibited relationships under the fraternization policy). When something happens in the supply section — and something will — the SGT will need to know which mandatory reporting path applies in which timeline. The reg is the legal framework under which the SGT's leadership decisions operate.
  • AR 600-8-19 — Enlisted Promotions and Reductions; AR 623-3 — Personnel Evaluation Reporting System
    AR 600-8-19 governs the promotion-points worksheet the SGT now signs for her soldiers (the SPC's DA Form 3355) and the promotion gates the SGT is working for E-6. AR 623-3 is the NCOER regulation — the SGT writes counseling statements on her soldiers (DA Form 4856) and at ALC graduation begins writing NCOERs as the rater on the soldiers in her section. Both regs interact at the SSG board. Read AR 623-3 chapter 3 (counseling) and the DA PAM 623-3 chapter 3 (NCOER bullet writing) before the first counseling cycle as a SGT.
  • ATP 6-22.1 — The Counseling Process; ADP 6-22 — Army Leadership and the Profession
    ATP 6-22.1 is the doctrinal source for the counseling process — the structure of the DA Form 4856, the Plan of Action format, the documentation standards. ADP 6-22 is the Army Leadership doctrine — the source the CSM quotes at the brigade NCOPD. The SGT reads both at this rank; the senior rater's NCOER bullets at SGT reference the leadership and counseling doctrine they lay out.
  • DA PAM 710-2-1 and DA PAM 710-2-2 — Supply Support Activity Supply System: Manual Procedures
    The two pamphlets cover the manual-procedure spine of unit supply and SSA-level supply support. The pamphlets describe the procedural logic — why GCSS-Army transactions are structured the way they are, how the hand receipt chain works in principle, how the sub-hand-receipt cycles tie back to the master property book. The SGT reads both pamphlets at this rank; the 920A warrant officer will quote them in technical conversations.

Standards — How to Hit Each

  • BLC graduate (required for SGT pin-on); ALC packet built and submitted on time, slot date in sight before the SSG cutoff is realistic.
    BLC graduate is the prerequisite to pin SGT — no exceptions under AR 350-1 / AR 600-8-19. Once pinned, immediately start the ALC packet (DA Form 4187 for the slot request, ATRRS coordination through the unit S-3 schools NCO, command release through the company commander / 1SG, prerequisite verification). ALC at the Sustainment Center of Excellence at Fort Gregg-Adams is the next-up STEP gate for E-6 SSG; the length and curriculum are MOS-specific and verifiable via the SCoE catalog and ATRRS. Target the ALC slot 12-18 months from SGT pin-on so the SGT returns with the ALC cert before the SSG cutoff month. The slot competition tightens around year-group transitions; the SGT who waits until cutoff month watches a peer pin SSG first.
  • ACFT 560+ as a floor — the BSB SPO sergeant major notices the 92Y SGT who can hang on the ruck.
    560 requires roughly 250+ on three events plus 60+ on the others. Lift heavy three days a week, run intervals two days a week, focus on grip and core. The 2-mile run is the score-killer for many supply soldiers — pull the time below 16:30 and the lift scores can be moderate. The soldiers run with the SGT who out-runs them, not the SGT who shouts at them. The supply MOS at SGT is not a pass on physical standards; the BSB CSM tracks the section aggregate and the SGT's individual score shows up on the company slide.
  • Section-level cyclic and quarterly inventories with zero negative adjustments traced to your soldiers — variance gets investigated, not papered over.
    Cyclic inventory under AR 710-2 / DA PAM 710-2-1 — every item physically verified, every shortage documented on a shortage annex, every serial number reconciled. The SGT's section's cyclic inventory closes with zero negative adjustments traced to the soldiers under the SGT's supervision — meaning no instances of property that was on the hand receipt but cannot be physically accounted for, no transactions in GCSS-Army that do not match the physical state of the shelf. When a variance does occur, the SGT investigates it (was the GCSS-Army transaction wrong, was the physical item misshelved, was there a hand-receipt error, was the item actually lost) and resolves it through the proper channels — not by adjusting the system to match the physical state without documentation. The supply sergeant whose cyclic inventories close cleanly is the supply sergeant the property book officer trusts; the supply sergeant who papers over variances is the supply sergeant whose name shows up on the next FLIPL.
  • GCSS-Army functional proficiency across your role plus an adjacent role — you can cover the SSA receiving NCO when he goes on leave, or vice versa.
    Power-user proficiency on the supply sergeant's role is the baseline; the SGT who builds depth on an adjacent role (the SSA receiving NCO, the property book office's reconciliation NCO, the SPC running OCIE issue cycles at the CIF) is the SGT the BSB SPO sergeant major can flex to cover gaps. The discipline: spend time outside the company supply room — visit the BSB property book office, shadow the SSA receiving NCO during slow weeks, attend the GCSS-Army advanced operator courses when offered. The cross-role depth is the visible signal of SSG potential; the SGT who only knows the company supply room is the SGT who plateaus at SGT.
  • NCOER bullets in clean action-result-impact format — the warehouse OIC, the property book officer, the BSB SPO sergeant major will all rate against this profile.
    NCOER bullets at the SGT level (as the SGT becomes the rater on her soldiers under AR 623-3) need to be measurable, defensible, and tied to specific accomplishments. Examples of strong bullets: 'managed [dollar amount] in property book accountability across [N] sub-hand-receipt holders with zero negligence-related FLIPLs during rating period'; 'closed [N] FLIPLs as appointed investigator with [%] findings sustained at property book officer review'; 'processed [N] customer-service transactions in GCSS-Army with zero document-register variances traced to section'; 'trained [N] soldiers on GCSS-Army basic-user functional proficiency with [%] first-time-pass rate on power-user assessment'; 'mentored [N] SPCs through Army COOL credential stack — [N] APICS / ASCM CPIM credentials, [N] Lean Six Sigma Yellow / Green Belt credentials achieved during rating period'. Weak bullets are generic and unverifiable; strong bullets are quantified and traceable. The senior rater calls the SGT at the end of the rating period to ask about specific soldiers because her bullets actually describe what each soldier did. That trust is the differentiator between a SGT who will pin SSG on time and a SGT who will sit in zone.

Technical Mistakes — Concrete Consequences

  • Counseling soldiers verbally. If it is not in iPERMS or in writing, it did not happen and the property book officer cannot defend you when the soldier shows up at IG.
    When a soldier loses a court-martial appeal, files an IG complaint, or generates a FLIPL under AR 735-5, the chain's first move is to pull every counseling on file. A verbal counseling the SGT swears she gave is invisible in the legal file; the soldier's defense counsel will use the gap to argue the standard was fabricated after the fact. AR 623-3 requires monthly counseling; the SGT who skips the DA Form 4856 is the SGT who eats a relief-for-cause counseling from the 1SG when the file gap surfaces. Five minutes typing a DA 4856 = 12 months of legal defense for the supply sergeant and her chain.
  • Letting your section take shortcuts on the DD 1750 packing list or DA 3161 turn-in because 'it is just retrograde.'
    DD Form 1750 (packing list) and DA Form 3161 (request for issue or turn-in) are the legal documentation of property movement under AR 710-2 and AR 735-5. The supply sergeant who lets the section skip the documentation on retrograde shipments creates an accountability gap — the next inventory finds a line item that was supposedly returned to the SSA or the depot but cannot be located, and the FLIPL has the supply sergeant's name on it because she signed off on the retrograde. The DLA Disposition Services receiving station, the SSA receiving NCO, and the depot all run their own receiving inspections; the discrepancy surfaces within weeks, not months.
  • Closing a FLIPL with 'I don't know' findings as the investigating officer.
    AR 735-5 requires FLIPL findings to be defensible — preponderance of evidence, identified responsible party (or determined no responsible party), recommended financial liability. 'I don't know' findings get sent back by the property book officer; the company commander reads the inadequate findings at the BSB synch and loses confidence in the supply sergeant's capacity to investigate. The 920A warrant officer reads it and remembers; the BSB SPO sergeant major hears about it through the senior NCO supply community within a week. The SGT's credibility for the harder reconciliation work — and for the warrant officer packet conversation — closes.
  • Hiding a property loss from the chain to 'fix it next month.'
    The GCSS-Army variance report runs automatically — the 920A warrant officer sees it before the supply sergeant does. The cover-up is itself a finding under AR 600-20 (Army Command Policy) and AR 735-5, and when the IG drop-in or the brigade-level inspection finds it, the company eats a finding on the SGT's integrity as well as the original property loss. The discipline: tell the 1SG and the property book officer about the loss the day you find it; build the resolution plan with the chain; document the chain of events honestly. The chain will defend the supply sergeant who reports honestly and resolves cleanly; the chain cannot defend the supply sergeant who hides the loss and gets caught.
  • Burning your sergeant of supply / 920A warrant relationship by going around them to the company commander.
    The 920A WO community is small. The senior NCO supply community is smaller. The read travels through the brigade S-4 to the BSB SPO sergeant major in a week. AR 600-20 chapter 2 (command policy and structure) is the reg the BSB CSM quotes when a chain-of-command bypass surfaces. The supply sergeant who goes around the property book officer or the BSB property book office NCO to escalate to the company commander or the BSB CDR is the supply sergeant whose 920A warrant packet conversation closes — the technical-track community will not endorse a packet from an NCO who burned the warrant relationship at SGT.

Career Decisions at This Rank

  • ALC slot timing (target 12-18 months from SGT pin-on)
    ALC is the STEP gate for SSG under AR 600-8-19 / AR 350-1 — no graduation, no pin. The slot competition tightens around year-group transitions; a SGT who waits until cutoff month to think about ALC watches a peer pin SSG first. The packet build: DA Form 4187 for the slot request, ATRRS coordination through the unit S-3 schools NCO, command release through the company commander / 1SG, prerequisite verification (ACFT pass, no flags, current weapons qual, BLC graduation cert). The slot windows depend on Sustainment Center of Excellence capacity at Fort Gregg-Adams and unit nomination cycles. Target a slot 12-18 months from SGT pin-on so the SGT returns to the section with the ALC cert before the SSG cutoff month. The trade-off: ALC is typically a multi-week TDY at Fort Gregg-Adams — verify current course length via the SCoE catalog and ATRRS. Family separation, leaving the supply room to the SPC for the duration, and the prep work for the curriculum are all real costs. But the slot is non-negotiable for the SSG pin.
  • Army COOL credential push — CSCP and Lean Six Sigma Green or Black Belt by SSG pin-on
    Army COOL funds the 92Y civilian supply chain credential stack (verify current funded credentials at cool.army.mil). The SGT who progresses the stack through E-5 — APICS / ASCM CSCP credentialed (the senior civilian supply chain credential), Lean Six Sigma Green Belt complete and Black Belt in motion, CLTD progression — finishes the SGT rank with materially more promotion-points leverage and post-service market leverage. The civilian supply chain market reads CSCP and Black Belt at materially higher entry tiers than CPIM and Green Belt. The trade-off: credential prep at the senior level is real time off the personal calendar; the study modules are dense and the test fees are funded but the time is not. The post-service return for a cleared 92Y SGT with CSCP, Black Belt, supply sergeant experience under AR 735-5, and a clean record is structurally strong — major retail and 3PL hiring programs at the supervisor / manager entry tier, public-sector federal supply chain at GS-9 to GS-11 entry, defense contractor supply chain at $70K-$95K corporate entry depending on cert stack and metro.
  • 920A Property Accounting Technician warrant officer packet (start the conversation now if interested)
    The 920A Property Accounting Technician (WO1/CW2) is the technical-track commissioning path for 92Y soldiers. The 920A path is the property book officer warrant — the senior technical authority on the brigade's property accountability, the bridge between the company supply rooms and the BSB property book office, and the formal advisor to the BSB / brigade commanders on property accountability. The 920B Supply Systems Technician is the parallel warrant track for the GCSS-Army systems / SSA-level technical depth. The packet typically requires: minimum E-5 at application but selection-board reality is usually E-6 SSG with strong NCOERs, command endorsements, the standard warrant officer accession packet documents under the current MILPER guidance (verify current packet requirements at the U.S. Army Warrant Officer Recruiting page). The honest test: are you better at running the daily supply operation as an NCO or at building the systems and writing the policy that runs property accountability across the brigade? Soldiers who love being NCOs make average warrants. Soldiers who keep asking 'why is the property book structured the way it is' or 'what would the property book officer's answer be on this reconciliation' make excellent warrants. Talk to existing 920A / 920B warrant officers (the BSB warrant is usually the most accessible) before committing to the packet build.
  • Reenlistment with SRB / school-of-choice option (window opens 12-18 months before contract end)
    Reenlistment math at SGT is the first time the 92Y has a real bonus on the table (subject to the current HRC SRB MILPER — pull it before signing anything). 92Y SRB tiers move cycle to cycle with Army retention need; the 92Y MOS is high-density so the bonus tends to be modest unless the retention math shifts. The reenlistment options: stabilization at current unit (typically 3 years stabilized), geographic-relocation option (specific CONUS or OCONUS location), school-of-choice option (the various Army Logistics University and CASCOM courses, the GCSS-Army advanced operator slots, sometimes the cross-MOS reclassification courses), or station-of-choice option. The school-of-choice option is typically the highest-value option for a career-focused 92Y SGT. The trap: signing for 6 years to maximize bonus dollars without thinking about which assignment path the contract locks in. Run the math twice. Talk to your spouse if you have one. Compare against the civilian post-service profile: 92Y SGT + CPIM / CSCP + Lean Six Sigma + clearance + clean record + 8-12 years experience commands a strong civilian fleet and supply chain entry tier. If the re-up math does not work without the bonus, the re-up does not work.
  • Drill Sergeant / Recruiter / AIT instructor at Fort Gregg-Adams (Special Duty Assignment)
    TRADOC special duty assignments (Drill Sergeant at OSUT, Recruiter, AIT instructor at the Quartermaster School / Army Logistics University at Fort Gregg-Adams) are 3-year tours that age a SGT fast, pay a Special Duty Assignment Pay (SDAP), and visibly differentiate the career profile. The Drill Sergeant identifier (X4 ASI) is a known check at the E-7 board. The AIT instructor billet at Fort Gregg-Adams runs the 92Y Unit Supply Specialist AIT under the Quartermaster School; the SGT instructor builds technical depth, teaching credibility, and the doctrinal grounding that reads strongly at the SSG / SFC board. The cost: family quality-of-life is brutal during a Drill Sergeant tour (16-hour days, weekend duty), and Recruiter tours move the SGT to a small civilian community where she is the Army to her neighbors. AIT instructor tours at Fort Gregg-Adams have a more predictable schedule but the schoolhouse rhythm is not the line-soldier rhythm. Talk to NCOs who have done the tour before volunteering.

How the Seat Varies by Unit Type

  • Company supply sergeant in an IBCT / ABCT / SBCT line battalion
    The line battalion company supply sergeant operates inside the BCT's line-soldier OPTEMPO. The company deploys to the field as often as the line companies do; CTC rotations (NTC, JRTC, JMRC, JPMRC) are home rotations every 18-24 months; the supply sergeant rucks with the supported company on certain training events and runs CIF-equivalent operations forward during rotations. The senior NCO density is moderate — the 1SG is the immediate supervisor for company-level matters; the supported battalion S-4 NCO is the staff-level coordinator; the BSB property book office NCO is the external supply chain. The trade-off: heavy operational tempo, deep line-soldier exposure, and the kind of property accountability test that comes with frequent field rotations. The supply sergeant who runs a line BCT company supply room cleanly through a CTC rotation is the supply sergeant the BSB SPO sergeant major names without thinking.
  • BSB property book office / SSA NCOIC at the SGT level
    The BSB SGT in the property book office or the SSA works in the brigade-level supply support footprint. The role is less customer-facing than the company supply sergeant role and more reconciliation-and-coordination heavy. The SGT supports the company supply rooms in the BCT with brigade-level coordination, runs sections of the SSA receiving / storage / issue operations, and reports to the BSB property book officer (a 920A warrant) and the BSB SPO sergeant major. The senior NCO density is higher (multiple SGTs / SSGs / SFCs and the 920A warrant); the institutional mentorship is structured; the warrant officer track conversation develops faster. The trade-off: less direct command-and-control on a section's soldiers, more brigade-level visibility, and a different post-service civilian translatable resume (the BSB-level supply chain experience reads strongly at federal supply chain and defense contractor supply chain entry levels).
  • CIF NCOIC / section sergeant at an installation
    The CIF SGT runs a section of the installation's Central Issue Facility — the OCIE issue / turn-in operation that supports the installation's PCSing soldier population. The role is high customer-service throughput, less property book and Class IX exposure, and typically operates alongside DA civilian staff. The OPTEMPO is steadier than a line battalion company supply sergeant role — predictable shifts, less field-deployable footprint, and a different work-life balance. The trade-off: narrower transaction scope (OCIE-focused), more installation-level civilian-employee interaction, and a different read on the SSG-track — CIF NCOs sometimes track toward installation-level supply / property book roles rather than line battalion supply sergeant progression.
  • Battalion / Brigade S-4 NCO at the SGT level
    The battalion or brigade S-4 SGT operates in the staff supply footprint. The role runs brigade-level coordination, battalion-level property accountability oversight, and the supply administration that supports the line companies. The S-4 SGT sees the staff-level supply picture — how the brigade S-4 and the BSB SPO coordinate, how the battalion's readiness reporting flows through GCSS-Army, how the various Class IX / OCIE / equipment-fielding cycles feed the line companies. The senior NCO density is moderate (a senior SFC / 1SG typically runs the S-4 NCO chain alongside the battalion S-4 officer). The trade-off: less hands-on transaction time, deeper exposure to the staff-level supply administration, and a different read on the SSG-track — battalion S-4 SGTs sometimes track toward staff-track SSG roles (the battalion S-4 NCOIC role at SSG) rather than company supply sergeant progression.
  • AIT instructor at Fort Gregg-Adams (Quartermaster School / Army Logistics University)
    TRADOC special duty assignment at the Quartermaster School at Fort Gregg-Adams. The SGT instructor teaches the 92Y Unit Supply Specialist Course AIT to the incoming cherries — GCSS-Army basic-user training, property accountability fundamentals, the supply discipline regulations, the customer-service rhythm. The role builds technical depth (you teach what you have to know cold), doctrinal grounding (the schoolhouse runs from the current ATPs, DA PAMs, and ARs), and teaching credibility that reads strongly at the SSG / SFC board. The AIT Platoon Sergeant identifier on the SGT's record brief is a known check on the senior NCO board. The cost: the schoolhouse rhythm is not the line-soldier rhythm; family quality-of-life is more predictable but the SGT is geographically tied to Fort Gregg-Adams for the duration of the tour.

What Good Looks Like at This Rank

The good Sergeant 92Y is the company supply sergeant the company commander does not have to think about. The property book is current — the master hand receipt clean, the sub-hand-receipt cycles to the platoon sergeants on schedule, the cyclic inventory paperwork reconciled cleanly against GCSS-Army the first time the property book officer checks. The DA Form 4856 counseling file is current — every soldier in the section has a Plan of Action signed within the rating period, the magic-paragraph language is specific and measurable, and the SJA could defend the file at an Article 15 board. The customer-service counter moves; the document register reconciles; the suspense file is current; the DA 1687 binder is verified weekly. She is not the loudest 92Y in the formation. She does not argue with the property book officer in front of her soldiers. The Army COOL credential stack at SGT shows APICS / ASCM CSCP in motion, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt complete, CLTD identified as the next credential. The ALC packet was built 6-12 months before pinning SSG; the slot date is in sight before the SSG cutoff is realistic. The 920A Property Accounting Technician warrant officer conversation is the longer-arc one — the BSB 920A warrant has been quietly having it with her quarterly, looking at her technical depth and her NCOER profile, asking her whether she has thought about packet timing. If the technical record continues to compound, the packet goes in at SSG with strong NCOERs. Her first FLIPL as appointed investigator closes with defensible findings — preponderance of evidence, identified responsible party with documented negligence, recommended financial liability that the company commander's decision sustains. Her first Change of Primary Hand Receipt Holder inventory at company commander change of command closes cleanly — the outgoing commander walks out without a discrepancy, the incoming commander signs without surprises, the property book officer signs off on the transition in the BSB master file. The company commander's read on her at the end of his command is the leading indicator of her SSG potential; the senior rater calls her at the end of the rating period to ask about specific soldiers because her NCOER bullets describe what those soldiers actually did. The platoon sergeants in the line platoons trust her with the sub-sub-hand-receipt cycles; the 1SG defends her at the company commander's update; the BSB property book office NCO names her without thinking when the SPO sergeant major asks who the next SSG-track supply sergeant in the BCT is.

Preview — The Next Rank

E-6 Staff Sergeant is the next gate, and it is structurally tighter than the E-5 promotion gate for 92Y. The promotion math is the same DA 3355 worksheet under AR 600-8-19 — 48 months TIS / 10 months TIG (waivable), max 800 points, monthly MOS-specific cutoff — but the chain of command's recommendation now carries materially more weight, and the Army's E-6 inventory math for 92Y is somewhat tighter than the E-5 inventory math because the SSG slate funds platoon sergeant / SSA NCOIC / battalion S-4 NCOIC billets at the company-and-battalion level. 92Y is a high-density MOS so the cutoff scores tend to run at the lower end of the points spread, but the chain-recommendation gate is real. Pull the current HRC cutoff message monthly. The job content at E-6 is warehouse NCOIC, platoon sergeant in a distribution platoon, BSB SSA section sergeant, or the senior 92Y NCO in a company supply role (depending on MTO&E / TDA structure). The SSG runs a 10-20 soldier section across receiving, storage, issue, retrograde, and the document control section if assigned to the BSB SSA; or runs a distribution platoon of 15-30 soldiers in the BSB; or serves as the company supply sergeant in a larger company-and-battalion structure that funds the SSG billet. The SSG builds training schedules, signs for the section's serialized property under sub-hand-receipt from the accountable officer, writes four-to-five squad-leader-equivalent NCOERs per cycle, and briefs the FSC or BSB SPO on the company's logistics posture. The SSG is in the SPO meeting more than expected and on the warehouse floor less than remembered. The differentiator on the SFC board is the school-slot stack built at SSG (SLC graduate cert, the Senior Logistics NCO professional development courses), the Army COOL credential stack (CSCP, Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, the federal supply chain career-feeder credentials), the visible warehouse / section / distribution platoon performance in the first 18-24 months as SSG, and the NCOER profile across the SSG rating period. The senior rater's bullets at SSG are the leading indicator of SFC potential. Plan the SLC packet 12-18 months after pinning SSG; MLC packet at the SFC inflection. The next career-defining conversations are the SSA accountable officer conversation at SFC, the warrant officer packet finalization (if pursuing the 920A / 920B path), the senior-NCO trajectory through the 92Z consolidated Senior Noncommissioned Logistician MOS at MSG and above, and the FSC / BSB First Sergeant conversation at the senior-NCO inflection. The road to FSC / BSB 1SG runs through SSG (platoon sergeant), SFC (SSA accountable officer or senior section NCO), MSG (FSC / BSB operations sergeant major in some MTO&Es), and then 1SG when the slate opens.
FAQ

92Y E5 — Frequently Asked Questions

Q01What does a E5 92Y (Unit Supply Specialist) actually do?
You run a section in the SSA, the FSC distribution platoon, or the BSB Support Operations (SPO) shop.
Q02What's the most important thing to know as a E5 92Y?
Sergeant E-5 92Y is the first rank where the Army stops promoting you on points and starts promoting you on judgment.
Q03What does a typical day look like for a E5 92Y?
Time-blocked day at the E5 92Y rank tier: 0500 Wake. Coffee. Phone check for any section emergencies — soldier in jail, family deathgram, missed accountability, a property issue that came in over the weekend. None? Good. PT uniform on, 0530 PT formation in the company area. As the supply sergeant you take accountability for your section (2-3 soldiers), report to the 1SG, who reports to the company commander. Missing soldier = your problem first, 0545-0700 Unit PT — cardio / strength / recovery on rotation. Wednesdays the company runs together;…
Q04What mistakes get E5 92Y soldiers fired or relieved?
Skipping the monthly counseling (DA Form 4856) on your soldiers. AR 623-3 requires it, NCOERs reference it, and 'no counseling on file' is the legal defense gap that gets a bad soldier a reduced-charge outcome six months later — and the SGT eats the relief-for-cause counseling for not documenting; DUI / Article 15 at the SGT rank under AR 27-10 — promotion flag under AR 600-8-19, demotion risk, NCOER blast, clearance issues, and a year of being the cautionary tale in the company TOC.…
Q05What career decisions matter most at the E5 92Y rank tier?
ALC slot timing (target 12-18 months from SGT pin-on) — ALC is the STEP gate for SSG under AR 600-8-19 / AR 350-1 — no graduation, no pin. The slot competition tightens around year-group transitions; a SGT who waits until cutoff month to think about ALC watches a peer pin SSG first. The packet build: DA Form 4187 for the slot request, ATRRS coordination through the unit S-3 schools NCO, command release through the company commander / 1SG, prerequisite verification (ACFT pass, no flags, current weapons qual, BLC graduation cert).…
Q06What's next after E5 for a 92Y (Unit Supply Specialist) in the Army?
E-6 Staff Sergeant is the next gate, and it is structurally tighter than the E-5 promotion gate for 92Y.
Q07What manuals and regulations does a E5 92Y need to know cold?
AR 710-2 + AR 735-5 — Supply policy and property accountability (own both cover-to-cover).; ATP 4-42 — General Supply and Field Services Operations.; ATP 4-43 — Petroleum Supply Operations; ATP 4-44 — Water Support Operations (you will at least supervise across these in a BSB).

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