Understand that the actual zone message for FY18 should be out any day now, but while I was surfing SailorBob I came across this document found at http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/officer/communitymanagers/Unrestricted/nsw/Documents/Promotion%20Zone%20Forecast%20(FY17-FY21).pdf
Does the CW/IWC maintain a similar document? I've seen the OPA charts from the OCM, but I was curious if we actually maintained the 5-year projection of zones and flow points. Reason why I ask, I think it's very interesting that URL LCDR are steadily creeping to the right (est. flow point of over 11 YCS starting FY20) and I'm curious where we stand in that calculus. I know for a fact that I'm moving much quicker through the zones now as a CW than I did as a SWO, but even still, many of my contemporaries that went IP were in zone last year, so they're essentially 1.5-2yrs ahead of their contemporaries in the URL.
As discussions about the IWC going URL and what that might look like keep coming up here and there, I think it's important that we take a look at how life is in the URL and factor that in with any such discussions that take place.