Navy Formalizes Support for All IA Sailors

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Navy Formalizes Support for All IA Sailors
October 29, 2008
Navy News

NORFOLK - Individual Augmentee (IA) Continuum leaders announced a policy update Oct. 17 to identify individual augmentee (IA) Sailor parent commands and to establish Navywide support for all IA Sailors and their families, ensuring the same fervor and vigilance that traditionally deploying Sailors and families receive.

In addition to identifying parent commands, the new policy, in NAVADMIN 293/08 (IA Gram 08-03), identifies specific minimum-levels of support parent commands are required to provide all three types of IA Sailors and their families in preparation for, during and after an IA deployment.

"With approximately 13,000 Sailors on IA orders, one of Navy leadership's top priorities is supporting the mission and communicating every facet of the IA process with families. Site visits where we talk to people who have been there or who are going, give us great feedback to make sure we have a good measure on this IA program," said Adm. Jonathan Greenert, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command.

Individual Augmentee Manpower Management Assignment Sailors (IAMM) are Sailors who are traditional IAs completing their tour in a temporarily assigned duty status and who will return to their previous commands at the completion of their IA tours. Commands deploying IAMM Sailors will maintain traditional command responsibilities for IA Sailor and family support.

Sailors serving on a Global War on Terrorism Support Assignment (GSA) will also receive traditional family support from their detaching command while on an IA tour; however, Expeditionary Combat Readiness Center (ECRC) will provide all administrative Sailor support. This administrative support will include but is not limited to: exam ordering and exam administration; deployment pay, housing, medical and legal support; personnel accounting of Sailors during a disaster; and continuous reach back support for emergent deployment issues. The Navy is currently filling approximately 60 percent of the GWOT assignments through this GSA process.


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