Letters of Continuity for NCOs?

CW2 Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 18:30:52 -0400

In my short career I and fellow NCOs I know have been mislead with letters of continuity. They do not exist officially for NCOs and should not be written in place of an NCOER, especially if PCS'ing. What are your thoughts?

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Apr 27 at 2014 7:01 PM

LTC Private RallyPoint Member — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 19:01:09 -0400

I have to be honest I had to google this to see what it is. I have heard of letter of input and it seems to be the same thing. I have only seen this "sort of" work when dealing with evaluations. I had a SFC who worked in the G2 during weekend but during the week was in the G3. I rated him but I worked with the G2 to ensure that what he did for them was incorporated into his NCOER. Otherwise if we only had a Soldier for 60 days we ensured to do a 60 day option (when we were ending our deployment) or if less we had the next unit roll it up. However, in the reserves world you typically do not have much to report based off less than two months unless it is during annual training.

The number one thing is to take care of the Soldier. If the old unit fails them then you need to take up the slack to get the evaluation completed.

Response by WO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Jul 19 at 2014 1:37 PM

WO1 Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:37:09 -0400

Currently I am running into this issue getting a 90 day NCOER for PCS. my last NCOER was on March 28th. I got a 1/1 which had strong bullets included numerous training events including JRTC. Since then we have had minimal events and even my signal officer agrees it is going to screw me over getting a 90 day because there really isn't anything to pin point a strong rate.

Since reclassing I have had a 2/1, 1/1, 1/1 and if I get a 90 day report there is no way i can obtain a 1/1 if the bullets reflect accomplishments.