NCO Promotion Prior to Attending NCOES

I would have counseled him regarding his refusal to attend NCOES, recommended the commander counsel him as non-recommended for promotion, and pushed for a bar to re-enlistment.

Favoritism destroys organization by promoting incompetent individuals to position they shouldn't be occupying. It is a cancer that destroys an organization slowly.

What MSG James Webb said, do exactly that.

I was an E-5 for over a year before I could attend WLC. Mainly due to the fact that we were deployed so much that it was impractical to send before promotion. While I was there as an E-5 there were two E-6's who hadn't been able to attend for the exact same reason. So to say you cannot be promoted because you don't have the school should be on a case by case basis not the rule.

Well let's see, there has been a lot of acceptance, and a lot of smack talk on this. First, to the SSG that said TIS/TIG only matter..... It doesn't ONLY MATTER, it is a tool, and a tracking mechanism, so that said moving on, if a Soldier refuses to train, go to the appropriate schooling, additional schooling.... BUH BYE! It doesn't matter how "good" they are at their job in the big picture they are holding back other Soldiers by stagnating in that position, to boot they have refused to train any leadership that allows them to get away with that is complicit in the down turn of our precious military, we do not except mediocrity, we teach, coach, and mentor so that we can build stronger, both mentally and physically our subordinates. But we are also charged with thinning the herd, the service is not for everyone. Now I get what you were doing with a kind of peer pressure thing..... BUT, if the result that was starting to show its self was even more animosity, then it was lost on the individual and a waste of time, doing nothing but adding to the tension, and suppression of the unit. BLUF..... The Soldier should have been counseled, barred from reenlistment, at a minimum, if the counseling did not reach its mark or have any kind of effect then a reduction board we be called for and possible chapter. It was time for that Soldier to go when he/she refused to train, NO MATTER WHAT THEIR MOS IS/WAS.

I would have put him in for a reduction board and/or bar to reenlistment after he was properly counseled and given opportunity to reform. Sound like a reservist and as much as I appreciate him volunteering, standards must be maintained. We will have many good AD Soldiers leaving our ranks (the fat has been cut and we are into the lean meat now) that could replace him so they can still work towards a retirement. I hope your leadership has not given you more trouble than necessary, because it's always easier to "check-down" than "up" in rank. Best of luck.

I don't see why he got "pissed". He did this to himself. Refusing to advance in career is a huge no go and you're commander can initiate papers on that alone based on timelines.

TIG/TIS only matters if a person meets all of the remaining requirements. My last unit I was in, I was the PSG, I had two other SSG in my platoon. There was no power struggle though, there was none of us that had gone to SLC and my Mortar Section Sergeant did not actually go to ALC until after I got him. If the other SSG that I had been serving under in my previous company had come over, who had recently attended SLC then I would have turned over the platoon to him. It is not about how much TIS/TIG you have until the playing ground is EQUAL. In your scenario, the playing ground was not. You were promotable, WITH ALC completed. My old unit got to the point, that if a person refused to go to ALC, then they would be demoted. It was not optional. WLC, ALC, SLC are NOT "optional" schools. Airborne, Air Assault, Master Gunner etc are optional schools. .
If your soldier was not working well with you, then counseling him is definitely in order. These counselings do NOT stay in his packet though, they go to the 1SG. You make it known to your 1SG what the problem is. You cannot fight the fight when you are both the same rank. The fact that you are promotable, and I assume his was too, does not mean that gives anyone the reason to be a jackass. It sets the wrong example to the troops. Small unit or not. You have to work in conjunction with your 1SG to make this right. Worse comes to worse he has to go to another unit.

If the soldier refused to go to NCOES when provided the opportunity to get promoted, that would be an indication that they are not ready to advance to the next level. Just because you have been sitting as an E5 and get mad when someone of the same rank with LESS time in service passes over you is your own undoing. I was an E4 for over 3 years with TIS and TIG, but there were no open slots for me for my MOS. Others were getting promoted ahead of me that I started my career with and had attended WLC before them. It was frustrating, but I waited and was eventually promoted while on deployment. Your career is what you make it.....if you don't attend the leadership school necessary to ft promoted, you don't deserve he rank. It is not a title just given out, it is earned.

It sounds to me that the right person got the job. Knowedge is a very important commodity in the military but attitude is everything. Someone who is good at their job can still be a cancer to the unit if their attitude stinks, and an NCO with a poor attitude can tear apart a whole team. When I was at Campbell I was a SPC with a year time in grade. While technically not a new soldier my time and grade did start over when I got out of the army and came back in. I was made team leader for my squad but when we got a new specialist with more time in service I nearly lost my job. Then the time came for us to both prove ourselves at an FTX at Ft Lewis, WA. The entire platoon was ready to kill this kid and though he grasped the concepts of our new platoon mission, he lacked the attitude and personality to get the troops to fall behind him. I kept my job and he got moved to a different platoon. My point is time in grade has little meaning when it comes to preparedness for the job. He may have been in longer, but he clearly isn't ready to lead.