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

My old squad leader went the Audie Murphy board with very little notice I'm thinking 3 weeks. He blew it out of the water !!!! He always said improvise,adapt and overcome !!! Great leader and even better NCO!!


In short :: Go in Balls deep!! (No Slack!)

I believe many of the responses I have read are wrong. Many times the soldier/sailor/airman/marine are very qualified for the event they are asked to attend, but they don't want to embarrass themselves or their command so they will say there is not enough time to prepare. We as leaders see something in them that individual they fail to see in themselves. I have had a couple of sailors who did not wish to attend a once in a lifetime event but still, after all these years, are extremely happy they did and it influenced their life. The nerves building up to the event will nearly drive them crazy but the unseen leadership qualities that WE (as leaders) know they possess will get through them with flying colors and even IF he/she falls short of the intended goal they will hold their head high and their subordinates will proudly brag about how great their leader is.

There is only 1 Audie Murphy. There has been 1,000 badasses since. Glory be the troops.

Just don't understand this new army. We used to compete like mad to get the chance to be selected to go to SAMB or SMB. It wasn't about the promotion it was the prestige of being one of the best all around NCO's. The board was situation based but to get there you had to be top 10% PT, CTT & MOS Q battle skills. This competition made us all better NCO's.

no soldier should be forced or intimidated into attending a board of any kind.

Go for it I went to a nco of the year and promotion board a day later I had 4 days notice. Get in there and don't show signs of weakness and you do ok. By the way I won nco of the year and I get promoted the first of January after I complete ALC

i rocked my Autie Murphy board, as a 3ID soldier, it was expected to know BDE and Murphy history. I once attended PLDC (now called Warrior Leadership I think) with two days notice... Suck it up buttercup.

I was Navy so might I ask what this board is about?

If this soldier was selected there is good reason, so I say go for it. What have you got to lose? Show them you have the leadership skills to take on this task at such short notice.

I am both a SFC Morales and a Audie Murphy and proud I was to have been it is a distinguished leadership club and a great honor to be in. It does get you a lot of honor guard details.