Can a soldier be forced to attend an Audie Murphy board?

It's an absolute honor to even have your name mentioned in the same sentence as Audie Murphy. Which by the way would be rolling over in his grave if he knew the Secratary of the Army has never served in any branch of the armed services and he is homosexual. Not saying that being homosexual is bad,( my son is homosexual) just saying from the days that Audie served to how much the armed services has changed. Why do we need to force soldiers to go to boards to see what their retention from a book or how do candence, to how many flag posts are on the fort. I always thought it never showed what the real NCO did for his troops that made him or her stand out amongst their peers. If you don't want to go. Don't go.

It's a huge opportunity, I was inducted in the SAMC and Sergeant Morales Club out of Europe. Along with college and other accolades Inwas selected for SFC with 6yrs TIS number 514 out of 514 in 2011.

Well the experience is great but realistically it would look bad if he did go and completely made a fool of himself, he's human and isn't goin to know and or remember everything in his career to be able to spout it out in front of a board like that, that's my opinion

This happened to me with a soldier of the quarter board. Was notified the day before that I was going. It made my chain of command look bad because I was unprepared. And when asked about the lack of preparation I told them why. If he has to go do his best

It seems to me that this Audie Murphy board is some fabricated event of some fabricated importance that actually tells little about leadership but more as regards your preparation for the fabricated event. Really? It sounds very childish given no more information than I have. IF significance is assigned to this "club" as regards promotion, possible assignments etc. WHY IN HELL WOULD YOU FORCE SOMEONE AND WHY IN HELL WOULD YOU NOT KNOW WHO IS PREPARED ALREADY? I gotta tell you, I read some of the things that go on in the present Army and I am NOT impressed.

Audie Murphy board? Is that a plank over a straddle trench?

Every soldier should be ready for a board.
Just do it. the worst that could happen is you gain a learning experience.

Just maintain your military discipline, you'll be fine. No, its not fair but that doesn't really matter.

I've had soldiers and NCOs be forced to go to boards with a few days notice. They made fools of themselves naturally. If anyone has been to a board you know they ask off the wall questions nobody gives a shit about. And with over 300 pages of material it is impossible to learn in a few days. The brigade CSM tore into my ass for my soldiers lack of preparedness.. I say all that to say this, regardless of weather his chain of command thinks high let of this soldier or not, they are setting him up for failure and it is a piss poor lack of leadership on his senior NCOs, do your self a favor and if the nco doesn't want to attend tell the leadership to pound sand, you will get your ass chewed but your nco will have all the respect in the world. Just my 2 cents though.

I went through this many times. It should be instilled in the Soldier that this is an honor to attend these boards but I would never force a Soldier to attend. He/she won't give their best effort.