Navy FitRep/ChiefEval Page

Annual evaluations are among the most important documents you're likely to encounter during your Navy career. That single sheet of paper affects your entire career: promotion, assignments, and your entire future in the military. No other document has as much impact on your life or your career. It's in your best interest to make sure your FITREP is as well written as possible.

Sometimes, when the annual performance review comes due, it's hard to come up with enough accomplishments to fill the Comments on Performance block in our evaluations. The things we do every day just don't seem important enough to record in an evaluation. But they are. Although it might not seem like it, the things that all of us do every day are essential to the continued success of the Navy. To illustrate the type of accomplishments appropriate for evaluations, below are a few examples of evaluation report inputs sorted into the rated categories and some evaluation examples.

Squeezing a year's performance into only 18 lines is a challenge. And when you consider the impact that this single document has, you realize how important it is to make every single word count. The most efficient way to get started is to brainstorm first. List all the ratee's accomplishments on a separate sheet of paper. Write down everything that might qualify as an accomplishment that occurred during the reporting period:

• Significant qualifications earned
• Awards received
• Professional achievments
• Educational accomplishments (Navy schools, correspondence courses, and civilian courses)
• Collateral duties
• Command and community involvement
• Any other information that might be noteworthy

Then when you have all the information on paper, you can start sorting and prioritizing the information. Below is a discussion on the Block 41, Comments on Performance block, and general guidance on how to record your accomplishments. The Comments on Performance block has three main divisions which vary somewhat in size as needed: The Introduction, The Accomplishments Section, and The Summary.

The Introduction

The goal of the FitRep is to accurately and completely describe a Sailor's performance. And that can't be done by simply creating a laundry list of achievements. Listing noteworthy accomplishments does provide some insight into a manager's abilities but it doesn't provide the whole picture. Merely listing achievements doesn't give any indication as to what kind of leader or supervisor the person might be. A Seaman might have the best accomplishments in the fleet but be an unbearable pain in the ass and impossible to work with. He or she might be the best at fixing a broken radio but the absolute worst at sharing experience or getting along with others. And those social qualities are equally as important as a person's technical skills. So, in addition to describing a person's professional and technical skills, we need a way to inform the report's reader on the subject's social skills, his integrity, his character, his loyalty and other qualities which are not apparent when merely reading a list of accomplishments. The introduction, the first two or three lines in the Comments on Performance block, is where this is done. These are the only lines where descriptive, subjective terms and adjectives are tolerated and even encouraged. More...

Accomplishments

As stated above, the goal of the ChiefEval is to accurately and fully describe a Sailor's performance. While the introduction provides information on the subject's personality and character, most of the Comments on Performance block is reserved for recording the subject's accomplishments during the reporting period. A list of accomplishments provide a factual window onto a person's abilities, skills, and productivity. They are an indication of the subject's ability to learn, progress, manage, and lead. The number of lines devoted to accomplishments compared to the number of lines set aside for the introduction give you an idea of their importance to the Navy. Technical and professional qualities are critically important for advancement, fully as important as a person's social and leadership skills! More...

The Summary

The Summary: Just as the introductory lines were a masterpiece of concise expression, the summary line(s) must sum up the impression the writer is trying to convey. More...

Introduction

    FitRep Opening Comments

Accomplishments

    Deckplate Leadership

    Institutional/ Technical Expertise

    Professionalism

    Loyalty

    Character

    Active Communication

    Sense of Heritage

Summary

    FitRep Closing Comments

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