Posted on Mar 26, 2020
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My PS is preventing me from going to the promotion board. I have won the company board and I shoot perfect in every weapon. I'm an outstanding soldier. My TL and SL tell me they want me to go to the P board. But because I'm on profile for a pending surgery on my knee I cant go? Because I am incapable of taking the PT test? Even though I'm pending surgery, and with this whole coronavirus thing I am not able to get surgery until it blows over. So can anyone tell me am I really stuck? There is nothing I can do? Not to mention I have been a E4 since January 2018
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SFC Retention Operations Nco
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There is a registration, it's called Enlisted Promotions and Reductions AR 600-8-19.
Read it and you will see when you are eligible to go and when you are required to go
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Here's the thing.....you are on a temporary profile. Even if you did go to the board and get your P, you can't go to PME school with a temporary profile. Also, most Army units are being ordered to NOT hold an in person promotion board due to the spread of COVID-19. Also, the Army is stopping movement. Which means, no one is going anywhere any time soon. In order to go to school, you need a current/valid APFT score. You can't get that with a temporary profile. If you can't get to school due to surgery and due to COVID-19, you could very well fall off the PPRL. Perhaps your Platoon Sergeant is looking out for your well being and not wanting to waste everyone's (to include your) time. Have you sat down with your Platoon Sergeant and/or TL and/or SL to be counselled as to why you are not getting to the promotion board?

And food for thought, I once sat as a SPC for 11 years before making SGT.
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MSG (Join to see) sounds a lot like a group call lol
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LTC (Join to see) - Oh. Really? I just learned something new.
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SGT Robert Johnson - yes. the PCM makes a recommendation and it is up to the CO to accept or reject.
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SGT Robert Johnson - I was a company CO 3 times and I never once rejected a profile for a soldier. It's a liability issue. If the doctor is making a recommendation and you, as a commander, go against that recommendation and the soldier gets hurt then that's your ass.
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CW3 Senior Army Instructor Jrotc
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You just need to tough it out and do what you have to do to get promoted the surgery will come. I went my last 16 years in the Army with no ACL, Went to BNCOC, ANCOC, AudiMurphy, Drill Sergeant School, two years on the Trail and WOCS and two Warrant Officer Basic Courses like that. A permanent profile want hurt you. I ran on my PT test and won every other award in school but it's all heart buddy. I was Artillery where everything was a competition so you don't want to fall behind three others. With that being said in year 20 I had a total knee replacement but it was worth all I put my body through.
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