NCO Evaluation Board Changes

MSG (Join to see) thank you for your professionalism on an important subject. Great read and share henceforth NCO's.

SPC Margaret Higgins COL Mikel J. Burroughs CPL Dave Hoover Lt Col Charlie Brown Lt Col John (Jack) Christensen SCPO Morris Ramsey PVT Mark Zehner Sgt (Join to see) SSG Michael Noll SSG Robert Mark Odom CPL Douglas Chrysler PO1 Tony Holland SGT Steve McFarland SPC Mark Huddleston CW5 Jack Cardwell PO1 William "Chip" Nagel PO1 Lyndon Thomas SP5 Jim Curry SGT Mark Estes

Extremely interesting approach to Enlisted Promotions MSG (Join to see) . I certainly hope it does what it is designed to do: promote soldiers worthy of being leaders.
During my time in active duty (83-87) there was a shortage of 11B NCO’s. Which meant numerous E4’s were promoted to E5/SGT with only minimal qualifications. The ‘freeze’ on other MOS’s caused numerous ‘good’ soldiers to leave the Army after their initial enlistment contract. I certainly hope this new approach to promotions encourages good soldiers to succeed and ‘weeds’ out those who don’t really ‘deserve’ to be NCO’s...just my two cents

-TIG 18 months to be evaluated, 24 months projected on top of that to pin on the next rank. So essentially 42 months TIG at the longest before pinning the next rank if a soldier continues to perform. Ok. As for the selection to attend training, is this only referring to PME or all schools ? In reference to schools being used as a “who’s done more this year” not all soldiers (in the same MOS) are afforded the same opportunities to “look good on paper” For instance SSG X and SSG Y are both high performers however SSG X gets to attend career enhancing schools all year which quantifies on paper however SSG Y does not get the same opportunities. That’s a raw deal that’s always been there and is even more applicable now due to the new promotion system. I feel it shouldn’t 100% be what a soldier gets to do, it should be how well a soldier does it. Everyone should have the same opportunity to attend MOS specific career enhancing schools and then be rated amongst their peers on a 1059. Maybe I’m way off topic however I feel these are friction points.