BIG NAVY BATTLES BIG BACKLOG IN UNPROCESSED DD 214S
MILITARY
By Carl Prine | July 05, 2022
A month ago, Lt. Cmdr. Justin Novak’s cell phone pinged with an update from Big Navy.
“Leaders, congratulations on your retirement, and let me humbly apologize that your DD 214 is not completed for you as yet,” began the message from Cmdr. Brad A. Bauer, the officer in charge of the My Navy Career Center Transactional Service Center in Norfolk, Virginia.
Novak was a graduate of the US Naval Academy’s Class of 2002, part of a group of Marine and Navy officers who received their commissions in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Those who stayed in the service have reached 20 years in uniform, the time when most career officers and enlisted sailors retire.
Bauer warned Novak and other senior sailors that, while his staffers had processed nearly 700 DD 214s over the previous two weeks, they still had 100 more to go, and they were “feverishly working overtime to get your retirement completed, and a DD 214 in your hand.”
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