United States Army Special Qualifications Identifier (SQI)
Q Equal Opportunity Advisor (EOA)
a. Description of positions. Identifies positions in any MOS requiring assignment of soldiers educated at Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI), and soldiers in any MOS who are graduates of DEOMI and qualified to occupy such positions. The following grading guidance applies:
(1) EOA positions in brigades, regiments. groups, COSCOMI
TAACOM or comparable units, garrisons having military populations of less than 10,000, service school headquarters, and medical centers will be graded SEC.
(2) EOA positions in division, Corps, MACOM with military popula tion of 50,000 or less, and garrisons with military population of over 10,000 will be graded MSG.
(3) Advisors in Army and higher level headquarters and MACOM with military population over 50,000 will be graded SGM.
(4) Instructor positions for DEOMI will consist of one SGM and a grading pattern of one SFC, two MSGs for remaining positions (group of three).
(5) SGM and MSG are not authorized for instructors except at DEOMI.
b. Qualifications. Must successfully complete DEOMI EOA course.
c. Restrictions. Substitutability-EOA duty is MOS immaterial. Any in dividual awarded SQl 0 and those individuals with grade of MSG or SGM as of 30 September 1984 and who were selected by DA Screening Board to retain PMOS 00U may serve in any EOA position identified with SQl Q without regard to three digit MOS.
Information derived from Army Pamplet 611-21. Current as of Nov 2000.
