What do you do if your CO does not want to finish your officer evaluation report pending your 15-6 outcome?

2017-03-22T10:06:30-04:00

I have a friend whose CO is in violation USAR regulations and is not issuing his OER awaiting a 15-6. It is 3 months overdue. 15-6 is over 9 months old on a missing radio an NCO lost in the field in CONUS. My friend has informed his Commander he is in violation of the Army regs. Sja is saying to use legal within his Brigade and he wants to use Army Reserve SJA outside his unit. What can my friend do? USAR TPU solider. IG complaint being generated by affected Officer also. Officer Promotion packed flagged by CO a day before the board file closed. This demonstrates intent of the CO to hurt this officer's career.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 22 at 2017 10:16 AM

2017-03-22T10:16:13-04:00

I would certainly escalate it up to BN or BDE with a formal complaint. This, to me, sound like a fine example of an IG complaint waiting to be filed.

Response by CPT Lawrence Cable made Mar 22 at 2017 10:20 AM

2017-03-22T10:20:49-04:00

I think I would recommend he talk to his senior rater before I took official steps. The senior rater can pressure for completion without having to go up the chain or involve outside entities. I will comment that as a young LT, my senior rater saved my butt when my commander slammed me on an OER for his command failures. Luckily, the senior rater's opinion about the commander was the same as mine.

Response by CPT Pedro Meza made Mar 22 at 2017 1:28 PM

2017-03-22T13:28:01-04:00

It appears that the Commander, is gambling on a negative outcome to justify a poor OER, which means that there is bad blood among both these two individuals. Yes the officer can push the issue with Brigade, but giving that you did not say anything about the Brigade Commander, whom should be aware of late OER's I will say that it is possible that the Brigade CO might be the one behind the late OER; politics.

Response by SFC George Smith made Mar 22 at 2017 7:00 PM

2017-03-22T19:00:51-04:00

Not Good ... Especially If he is Flaggged...

Response by LTC Private RallyPoint Member made Mar 24 at 2017 1:46 AM

2017-03-24T01:46:00-04:00

LTC Private RallyPoint Member well first off I have had evaluations over 8 months. It is just how the system is and nobody is held accountable to follow the regulations. However, it looks like this is in fact what the commander is trying to do and hold someone accountable. If your friend messed up big enough that it needs to go on an evaluation then it should be on the evaluation. If the 15-6 determines he did not mess up, then he is cleared and his evaluation should be reflective of the other things that he did.

It is a sore spot for me coming from both sides. I can see from your friend's point of view as I have been there at least four times on evaluations over six months late. I can also see from the Commander's point of view that too often (way too often) everyone wants a top block, great, walk on water evaluation regardless of their performance. An honest evaluation is hard to find out of the made up, exaggerated evaluations. If we are true professionals we need to be honest and stop padding evaluations and giving top blocks only to those "who need it" because their board is coming up. If there was an issue in the time that the evaluation is covering it is appropriate to cover it in that evaluation as you cannot put it on the next evaluation due to it being outside the rating timeline.

For your friend they can request a lawyer through https://www.jagcnet.army.mil/ if they do not want to go through his Brigade (I recommend he goes outside his Brigade as they may not have trial defense).

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Response by COL Charles Williams made Mar 24 at 2017 11:56 PM

2017-03-24T23:56:55-04:00

Take a knee and wait.

Response by LTC Stephen F. made Jul 13 at 2017 9:12 PM

2017-07-13T21:12:48-04:00

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