1. HQDA EXORD 263-25: IMPLEMENTATION OF ARMY DIRECTIVE 2025-13, "FACIAL HAIR GROOMING STANDARDS", DTG: 112213Z JUL 25. Situation. Army Directive (AD) 2025-13 establishes new policy for facial hair grooming standards. Mission. Effective immediately, all Army organizations will implement policy issued in AD 2025-13 to reinforce standards and discipline, medical provider and commander responsibilities in support of Army readiness, and to enable all Soldiers to properly adhere to uniform and grooming standards. Download the entire EXORD from the HQDA-G357 EXORD repository at the following link. https://armyeitaas.sharepoint-mil.us/:f:/r/teams/S1NETHomePage/Shared%20Documents/Uniform%20Policy?csf=1&web=1&e=5OrYew
2. BRANCH/COMMAND ITEMS.
a. CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SECURITY EXCELLENCE (CDSE) PERSONNEL VETTING SEMINAR. Security Practitioners, Security Professionals, Security Managers: Sign up for the CDSE Personnel Vetting Seminar. This seminar is presented to address the requirements associated with the reform of the Federal Government's personnel vetting system, Trusted Workforce (TW) 2.0. Its purpose is to aid personnel vetting practitioners in DOD, federal agencies, and private industry in understanding TW 2.0 requirements, identifying gaps between current and future procedures, and providing support through the implementation process. https://actnow.army.mil/forums/html/topic?id=5c169e57-cbb4-4ce6-b806-1fb5a118ff45
3. Recently published Army Directives and All Army Activity (ALARACT) messages, and HQDA Principal Officials guidance. These documents are also posted on APD at the following link. armypubs.army.mil/default.aspx
a. ALARACT 073/2025, ANNOUNCEMENT OF FISCAL YEAR 25 DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY LOGISTICS EXCELLENCE AWARD PROGRAM WINNERS AND RUNNERS-UP: ARMY AWARD FOR MAINTENANCE EXCELLENCE, DEPLOYMENT EXCELLENCE AWARD, PHILIP A. CONNELLY AWARD, SUPPLY EXCELLENCE AWARD, DTG: R 111130Z JUL 25. The Chief of Staff of the Army (CSA) is pleased to announce the fiscal year (FY) 2025 winners and runners-up of the Army Award for Maintenance Excellence (AAME), Deployment Excellence Award (DEA), Philip A. Connelly Award (PAC), and Supply Excellence Award (SEA) programs. https://armypubs.army.mil/ProductMaps/PubForm/Details.aspx?PUB_ID=1031427
4. Recently published Military Personnel (MILPER) messages and Military Pay Messages. We are transitioning S1NET from milSuite to Army Career Tracker (ACT). All the below links are on ACT. If you are not able to access ACT yet, you can always find MILPER message on the HRC website at https://www.hrc.army.mil/Milper.
a. MILPER MESSAGE 25-274, FISCAL YEAR 26 (FY26) UNITED STATES
ARMY RESERVE (USAR) TROOP PROGRAM UNIT (TPU) / INDIVIDUAL READY RESERVE
(IRR) STAFF SERGEANT (SSG) NONCOMMISSIONED OFFICER (NCO) EVALUATION
BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT, ISSUED: [11 JUL 25]. The Army Reserve TPU/IRR SSG
NCO Evaluation Board will convene at the 99th Readiness Division (RD)
on or about 26 January 2026 to evaluate all USAR TPU/IRR NCOs in
the rank of SSG. This board will evaluate the performance and potential
of all eligible NCOs for the
purpose of creating an OML to inform a myriad of human resource decisions designed
to improve readiness, NCO professional development, and professionalism of the NCO
Corps. All evaluated NCOs will receive a new OML number. Soldiers
can view their updated OML in IPPS-A approximately 60 days after the
board adjourns. https://actnow.army.mil/forums/html/topic?id=c3e49a99-5577-41a1-b390-0b6d97f17c24
b. MILPER MESSAGE 25-275, FISCAL YEAR 2027 (FY27) COLONEL (COL) ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT (AMEDD) SENIOR NOMINATIVE COMMAND (SNC) SELECTION PANEL, ISSUED: [11 JUL 25]. The AMEDD SNC selection panel will convene on 25 September 2025 to consider nominations for projected FY27 SNC positions. The SNC panel is an "opt-in" selection panel. https://actnow.army.mil/forums/html/topic?id=aedc7ab1-66e3-46c3-af20-57cbf5e45667
5. FORSCOM INDIVIDUAL AUGMENTATION (IA) POSITIONS (UPDATED A/O 30 JUN 25). Hot openings, and others, are listed at the following link on S1NET. https://actnow.army.mil/forums/html/topic?id=a4d236a5-15ef-41db-a718-e80124f7f6fa
6. USARPAC INDIVIDUAL AUGMENTATION (IA) REQUIREMENTS, NUMEROUS IA OPENINGS IN TAIWAN FOR ACTIVE DUTY. https://actnow.army.mil/forums/html/topic?id=f78f2673-c14f-4e1d-9d41-543cf3e4f0da
7. ARNG/USAR POSITIONS/JOBS AVAILABLE. S1NET members have posted the following RC position/job vacancy information. For a listing of all USAR primary vacancies (updated weekly) visit https://actnow.army.mil/forums/html/topic?id=5c2cd937-935e-447e-a10d-42ea18326c1e. Units/commands who wish to post vacancies on S1NET may do so by following the instructions posted on the front page of the Job Announcements topic at the following link. Those posts which are in the correct location and which are posted in accordance with the instructions provided will be included in a future S1NET Message Summary. https://actnow.army.mil/communities/community/S1NETHomepage/JobsMilitary
a. HHB 100TH MISSILE DEFENSE BRIGADE, AGR, E5,ENGAGEMENT CONTROL SHIFT LEADER, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. https://actnow.army.mil/forums/html/topic?id=6e4af9df-21dc-4013-8a0d-ac2ebd070cda
b. 4TH BRIGADE, 94TH TRAINING DIVISION, TPU, CW3/420A, HR TECHNICIAN VACANCY, DECATUR, GA. https://actnow.army.mil/forums/html/topic?id=5adbb2f9-7374-4b08-a081-dc34fb8727e0
c. 2-411th LSBN - FT. MCCOY, WI - VACANCIES. https://actnow.army.mil/forums/html/topic?id=b43f73c2-10a1-40a7-995c-74f43227d839