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

You are never forced in to do anything in the Armed Services.....you are ordered or commanded.....going to a Board is much easier than having to face enemy forces.....Go to the Board NCO.....accept that challenge.....show you are ready for the next grade....stand in there and "rock steady."

You are never forced in to do anything in the Armed Services.....you are ordered or commanded.....going to a Board is much easier to face head on than enemy forces.....Go to the Board NCO.....accept that challenge.....show you are ready....for the grade....stand in there and "rock steady."

Holy crap. What a shit show. All i see here is "hwat an hopportunity, boah!" and shaming if someone doesn't see things the way someone in charge sees it. So someone didn't want to go to a board that someone else thought was important. Does going to a board make a soldier better at his or her job? No. Does going to a board ensure that soldier is trained to carry out his or her war time duty? No. Does going to a board ensure this soldier is prepared for deployment? No. Does going to a board enrich this soldier's life in a meaningful way? No.

What has been given here is an opportunity to promote one's self to his or her superiors. That is all. Yes, it is very stressful, and it allows someone to be evaluated in a very controlled and finite situation. Use it as such. By no means should a trip to the board be indicative of a unit's morale, or esprit de corps. What a leader does by forcing board appearances is foster an environment of ill will, toxicity, and distrust among the lower leadership and junior soldiers in a given unit.

To be told to essentially "make it up as you go and rely on your sheer ball size to triumph against leaders who have just as big of balls as you, but if you fail miserably because you are woefully unprepared, this could be a career killer" is frankly ill advised and short sighted.

Not enough time to prepare

It's all about the way you conduct yourself my friend not if you know all the answers. Stand tall, be confident, and always look at the person talking to you. You can ace a board without knowing the answers believe me I did it 3 times and came out with high scores every time. Grab your nuts and for for it!~AIRBORNE!!!!!

After 20 years all I've seen is 1SGs and CSMs pressure and make every NCO from SSG to SFC attend in Audie Murphy board, because it looks great on their NCOERs that so many have been inducted while in command. But kind of funny they never put the numbers that have been turned away.. lol

He needs to attend the board for the experience and in the process inform the board president that he only had 8 days to prepare and if he doesn't pass the board would like to attend the next one when he has more time to prepare

As a Sgt. Once told me when I told him I didn't sign up for duty outside the wire. "You signed up for whatever the f%\& Uncle Sam says you signed up for."
If you were a Intelligence analyst, and they sent you on a combat patrol, you would do your damned best. Why should this be any different?

I see most people missing the question. Can the chain of command force you to attend a board? Yes. In my experience, the CoC will make you do anything until you show them you're within your rights to refuse, and are willing to fight.

He isn't going to make a fool of himself if he is truly a "good NCO". His performance on the board is not what will follow him in his career. Being nominated for a prestigious board is what everyone will remember. Failing to "toe the line" will also follow him. "Ruck up!"