If you've attended the Mobile Retention Team Training (normally one week at your installation), you can now add the course to your Enlisted Record Brief (ERB).

The code is: MRT

Simply bring a copy of the certificate to your PSB and they can now add it.

So, I was scrubbing my ERB and noticed that under Military Education I had the Army Retention Course listed.

I am going downtown tomorrow to get my ERB corrected, but I am going to bring up the MRT thing to see if it is the same as what is listed.

Does your ERB actually say "Army Retention Course"?

If so, you're a Career Counselor from WAY back. Career Counselors used to attend the Army Retention Course in the early 90s and then it was switched to the Basic Career Counselor Course.

Yupper, it says Army Retention Course. It also says that I took the Fuel and Energy Management Course...I guess that was their way of saying "Fuel Handlers Course".

That means that I would have attended the Retention Course while in the DEP.

So, if it is on my ERB, I can wear the CC Badge right??

Well, if you wear the badge, wear it in the correct pocket.

You can actually wear the badge as a Full-Time (Battalion or higher) Reenlistment NCO, BUT, you may get some heat from some Career Counselors. They're pretty weird about that.

No thanks, I just want my ERB to be squared away. I already have a little "cookie" for my pocket.

Thanks for this info. I updated my ERB to say MRT instead of looking like I went Army Retention Course.

Thanks for the tip.

I also learned that there is some new area or new wording for the area that lists overseas assignments and combat tours. I think that it previously just said Overseas Assignments, now it is both. Anyway, got that fixed also.

Yeah, the new blocks in the top right-hand corner are much better.

Dwell Time (the time in between deployments) was added to show just how long Soldiers have been shamming back in the states. It's automatically defaulted to reflect your BASD, but will change automatically once you update an overseas tour.

Dwell Time? That's messed up. I just noticed that.

They should add a VOLNOT block on the ERB. "How many times you VOLunteer to deploy and are told that you are NOT going to be able to.