Does NAPS Time Count Towards....

[Ellerman]

Straightforward question

Does the time at NAPS or any other prep school count towards a couple of things:

Does it count towards retirement?
Does it count towards Time in Service for pay purposes?

Direct entry students do receive active duty orders for NAPS
The "direct entry" DD-214 you get when you leave NAPS and go to USNA says you have earned ~11 months of active service.
(My DD-214 from NAPS to USNA is very different from my question which is why I clarify "direct-entry" DD-214.)

Being prior-enlisted, NAPS counts for all of that for me but what about direct-entry students?

Title 10 is not perfectly clear.

I have friends who have successfully gone to their commands with the DD214 in hand to get their pay correct while others have not had the same success.

 

[IronmanDaremo]

My understanding is Yes and Yes.

Unfortunately for me, when I was released from my Army contract to attend NAPS, the Navy would not recognize my E-4 status from the Army and put me back at an E-1.

But my DD214 from NAPS and the Army show a total of 2 years - 11 months service combined time when I DORed, not including Academy time from PS.

 

[Ellerman]

That's my understanding as well but some of the official documents I'm finding are not 100% clear or might even contradict the others. Unless I'm reading them wrong, which I could be...
DoD Financial Management Regulation Vol 7a, Title 37, and Title 10 are the documents I have looked at thus far.

 

[Heatherg21]

I work as a proposal writer and I can assure you the Government contradicts itself in writing daily. They also cannot write a concise, articulate, non-conflicting request for proposal or a performance of work statement to save their lives.
Don't even get me started on the Oxford comma. Not a single Govt. document I have seen since I started this job uses it correctly.

The best one I saw recently was from a contracting officer. My boss had emailed them inquiring about the status of the Q&A and when we might see it.

The contractor responded with, "it should be coming out any day. We appreciate your patients."

I spit out my coffee.
In our 'Slack' channel, I posted something along the lines of "I didn't know we needed medical experience for this proposal".

Then, he spelled it the same way again in three subsequent emails. Killin' me Smalls!

 

[IronmanDaremo]

Hey, some of them are pretty good ....... at least my Agency is generally that way.

Don't get me started on the some of the PROPOSALS I've had to review in my civil servant time!!