What are the best ways to get promoted to E-5, even though your promotion points are at 798 and you have not been deployed?

Ok, first thing. Do you have enough time in service & do you have enough time in grade? Schools? PT score? BRM? DO YOU KNOW YOUR MOS? Can you teach other soldiers? Are you willing to transfer to another unit? Is there a slot for you to get promoted to? Are you willing to take on the responsibility? Are you confident and competent enough? If you are ate up other soldiers will see this and he will lose their respect!!

Max out your points. Correspondence courses, resident courses, PT, weapons qual....if there are points to be had, get them.

Volunteer for service with the 75th Ranger Regiment and go to Ranger School. There may be slots at the Regimental HQ for your MOS. Ranger qualified personnel may be entitled to a lower cut off score than non-Ranger qualifed personnel. If you really want to make it, you should look into it.

I heard that the best way to become an E-5 SGT is to deploy as an E-6 SSG, but I don't have any experience with that yet.

Having been deployed does not make you promoteable, but completing, as many SSD's, Wlc,BNOC common core, ALC those are the prerequesites, for promotion, so start with SSD{1}, as always height and weight , PT, marksmanship, all that must be up to, or beyond the standards, and stay away from having profiles, and get a good enlisted rating,from your senior leaders. Now good luck.

You may think about changing to another mos or even changing to the officer in hopes to work in the same field

Ask your platoon sgt to get you into a school ( like airborne or air assault) and complete army correspondence courses ( they are free for you) those will definitely up your points.

Sorry to say, but not going to happen. Without deployments you can only get a certain amount of awards. Even college maxed out with coorespondance courses and maxed PT test and maxed BRM. It's not going to happen.

Just keep your head up, go to the board, get as many points as possible and hopefully they will drop to the points you have accumulated at that point.

Oh and stay on top of your S1!!!!

I have this issue going on. Promotion points for my MOS has been at 798 for over a year now. My only solution is to reclass.

In some units... show up as an E6 and get busted down