Has anybody successfully submitted an appeal against a falsified NCOER?

Just rapid fire answer here: One, the example is from the old form, and is longer than the two year statute for submitting an appeal. The area of emphasis for that is that OEF 8 was a lifetime ago. Secondly, and most importantly, you cannot submit a 4/4 without multi echelon approval, so I would be pretty sure that it was vetted thoroughly.
Being that it is board season, I assume someone is trying to clean up their records. That would be more at a letter to the board situation. However, it happens frequently when we get new NCO's to our units that we get caught in the spin cycle. Bad NCOER's are usually earned. Very rarely does one make it through all of the signatures to HRC, with false narratives. If you suspect you are being railroaded, address it immediately. The situation never ages like wine. It ages like milk. Be careful with this situation. If this individual who received a subpar rating is acting clueless, but it made it past every step in the review process, he may be stringing you along. Sometimes, as leaders, we try to solve the problems of everyone in our scope of influence, when they are steady creating more for us.

Did he or she sign it??

I believe that I will be called out-dated--I've been out of the Service for quite a while. But I do know one thing: even back in the 80's and 90's, the NCOER system was one of the most misused areas I ever saw. The NCOER system is vastly unfair--if you want to promote someone, they have to receive perfect scores. Anything less than a perfect score jeopardized the Soldier's career--even if the score was well deserved.

The responses I have read were concerned with fixing the NCOER. How about fixing the NCO being evaluated? I believe that it is unfair to automatically assume that the NCOER is in error...what if the NCO on whom this is written is truly a soup sandwich on moldy bread?

My suggestions:

1. SCRAP the current NCOER system. Use written comments and ratings instead of a numerical score. The closing paragraph should be concise, simple, and should have four choices: Promote, Retain, Reduce or Discharge. This idea that someone MUST be promoted or be discharged really shoots military readiness in the foot. How so? I knew Soldiers who would NOT make good NCO's at ALL--but who were masters their jobs, knowing their equipment better than some Warrant Officers. No, they weren't fully polished--but if you needed that system to come up quickly, you called these Soldiers first.

2. Put promotion authority back where it belongs--at the LOCAL level. I'm not talking about SSG or below--I'm talking about SFC and above! Think about it...who can better pick a prospective Platoon Sergeant--someone sitting behind a desk at DA with a magnifying glass, or the First Sergeant of that prospective Company? Should a Master Sergeant have their records sent through on a thumb drive, or electronically forwarded--or should they appear before a board of Command Sergeants Major, in the Battalion they are assigned to? Which choice makes more sense?

3. For heaven's sake, let's stop crucifying Soldiers for making mistakes!!! ONE Article 15 effectively kills a Soldier's career. WHY? I saw Soldiers who best resembled boxes of rocks--who received proper mentoring and positive yet firm correction from their NCO's who went on to become outstanding leaders. And PLEASE---let's not hear "there's no room in the Army for substandard Soldiers". Can anyone on this board TRULY say that they NEVER made a mistake early on that would have possibly killed their careers if they had been held accountable by today's standards?

Bottom line: why assume that the author of the NCOER was instantly wrong? And--why automatically assume that the subject of such an NCOER is a total loss?

Tell your friend to step up his game or he is gone.

.44 Magnum

I don't see this NCOER making it past the senior rater much less a BN CSM. I would like to see the councelings that justify this report.

Duties and Responsibilities.... wow, talk about copy and paste. That a good way to get nailed for negligence. Also, where are the dates for event oriented counselings for all the negative events that are being claimed. This never would have made it past a 1SG or Commander performing a review.

Is this a bogus NCOER? I seriously doubt a CSM approved this. For starters not one bullet begins correctly. Some blocks only have 1 maybe 2 bullets. And this NCO gets a yes in every block in the values column but has a rating of 4/4. It doesn't seem legit to me. However if it is I'd tell the NCO to request to his/her quarterly counselings and personal counselings. That will be the things they need for justification.

That is some Garbage for sure. What did they do to piss off their CoC?

I'll put it in simple terms. No. There is little that can be done unless you find someone higher in your chain of command that is willing to go to bat for you. It takes a lot of extra work besides the everyday duties you are expected to perform and that may not be even close to enough. In the end, NCOERs very seldom get overruled and sent back for re-evaluation. People don't like stepping on other people's toes. From experience, I had outright lies stated on mine and I pushed mine all the way to the JAG office and they said they would not get involved.