Military Spouse Preference-DoD Program: A military
spouse who is a current Federal employee with personal career or career-
conditional status or has reinstatement eligibility, or eligibility under
Executive Order 12721, or who is accompanying or joining a military sponsor
assigned as the result of a permanent duty station move (not retirement or
separation) to (or within) the United Stated, may be registered for referral to
DoD activities of his/her choice, regardless of component (Army, Air Force,
Navy, etc.), within the commuting area of the permanent duty station of the
military sponsor. For the spouse to be eligible (a) he/she must have
entered into marriage with the sponsor prior to the sponsor's reporting date to
the new location; (b) he/she must be fully qualified for positions for which
registered; (c) he/she must furnish a copy of the PCS orders identifying the
military sponsor's reporting date or supplies written evidence which verifies
eligibility; and (d) he/she must be immediately appointable to a job in the
competitive service, i.e., a current/former Federal employee with reassignment,
transfer, or reinstatement eligibility, or eligibility under E.O.
12721. Registration eligibility begins 30 days before the sponsor's
reporting date to the new location applies without time
restriction. The spouse must be among the best qualified to be
referred for the position. If selection is made from the competitive
referral list and spouse preference eligibles are among those referred, a SPOUSE
PREFERENCE ELIGIBLE MUST BE SELECTED. However, noncompetitive
referral lists are issued simultaneously with the competitive referral list, and
selection may be made of noncompetitive Army candidates, VRA appointments,
appointments of 30% or more disabled veterans, noncompetitive transfers,
placements to correct equal employment opportunity deficiencies, placement of
the handicapped, and placements of persons returning from overseas tours of
duty, without regard to spouse preference. Spouses may exercise
spouse preference no more than one time per each permanent relocation of the
military sponsor. Acceptance or declination of a valid offer at any
grade level uses up preference eligibility until the next PCS move of the
sponsor.Appropriated and Non-appropriated (NAF), fund jobs at Fort Polk are
limited due to the military downsizing, however, a few job openings do become
available.