My rater rated me 1 of 2 and exceeds standards on my NCOER. However, my senior is giving me only qualified. Does this make sense?

I am not serving as a drill sergeant anymore. IAW AR 623-3 if I never received an initial and quarterly counselings, then the rater must explain why. From my understanding lying/falsifying on a government document is absolutely wrong. I don't understand how I'm getting an annual NCOER from a rater who's been rating me since February 2022 and a senior rater whose been rating me since June 2022. My last NCOER was done October 2021 but I didn't report to my duty station until November 2021 and then reported to my unit until February 2022. This is why I asked if legal would have advice for me because this is false documentation, violation of regulation, and the army values.

SSG Zachary Kelly - I have seen this play out once. They threw out the NCOER and a year was left unevaluated. From what I understand it is a death sentence for a career to have a year unevaluated. By regulation you can not have someone change an evaluation due to command influence. Your SR could, in theory, change the bullets and still give you the same rating. At the end of the day you would be sitting in the same spot.

SSG Zachary Kelly as you've read 623-3 you know that is more than enough time for your rater to rate you. Your eval should go from your last eval date, your time until you arrived at your unit is unrated time. You can certainly challenge your counseling dates, but that doesn't change your bullets, it doesn't change whether or not your rater is qualified to rate you, and it doesn't change your senior rater.

Legal handles laws and UCMJ, NCOERs are an administrative process. While JAG loves to give their advice, they have zero authority over administrative processes such as Bars, GOMORS, QMP, or evals. If you feel that your rater isn't following policy you can go to IG. IG will tell your rater that they have to add the comments about why you weren't counseled. That's it. In the end, the evaluation board doesn't care about your comments, they care about your assignment history first and your evals second. A person in a broadening assignment, especially a demanding one like Drill, who is qualified is going to be rated higher than someone who's highly qualified in a normal position.

IAW AR 623-3 if I never received initial or quarterly counselings, they must explain why. This is why I'm challenging my rating, because these are false dates, my rater wasn't rating me until February 2022 and my senior rater didn't begin rating me until June 2022. How can someone rate and entire years worth, when they weren't part of the unit until recently? From my understanding falsifying on a government document is absolutely wrong.

SSG Zachary Kelly That is exactly what I am eluding to. Empower yourself with the knowledge and you will be surprised what is possible. If your unit leadership has violated policy and regulation and you have the facts to back it then you should escalate.