SPC Private RallyPoint Member 8696987 <div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Good Morning/Afternoon everyone,<br /> I had a question retaining my case. I was informed today that I was to go to a promotion board this Tuesday, given how I thought I passed the SOM board. I was told however that the 1SGs were deciding to send me to the board without notifying my NCOs (I was told outside my chain of command that I was recommended) and that they planned for me to fail and to bar me from my renlistment contract I signed. Is this something I should go to IG for? 2024-03-15T09:50:47-04:00 SPC Private RallyPoint Member 8696987

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Good Morning/Afternoon everyone,<br /> I had a question retaining my case. I was informed today that I was to go to a promotion board this Tuesday, given how I thought I passed the SOM board. I was told however that the 1SGs were deciding to send me to the board without notifying my NCOs (I was told outside my chain of command that I was recommended) and that they planned for me to fail and to bar me from my renlistment contract I signed. Is this something I should go to IG for?

2024-03-15T09:50:47-04:00 2024-03-15T09:50:47-04:00 CSM Chuck Stafford 8696999

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This doesn&#39;t make sense. One doesn&#39;t pass a SOM board. One doesn&#39;t have more than one 1SG/CDR to recommend you to the promotion board. What you hear outside your chain of command is immaterial. I am also failing to see the nexus to the Bar. Get with your 1st line, determine the facts and then move out smartly from there. Good Luck

2024-03-15T09:59:55-04:00 2024-03-15T09:59:55-04:00 SFC Private RallyPoint Member 8697429

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>This doesn&#39;t even make sense. What 1SGs? Like all the 1SGs in the BN who sit on the board? Why would they be the ones recommending you to go to a promotion board? It&#39;s supposed to come from your first line. Also you&#39;re supposed to get counseled on attending the board. <br /><br />Who told you this? One of the 1SGs? Did you go talk to your direct leadership? What do you mean you &quot;thought&quot; you passed SOM board? Did you or not? But a SOM board isn&#39;t a requirement to go to a promotion board technically. <br /><br />This sounds like some weird gossip. I&#39;d be going to my direct leadership chain before going to IG. But no - they can&#39;t &quot;plan&quot; for you to fail before you even show up. This is the weirdest thing I&#39;ve heard about.

2024-03-15T18:08:38-04:00 2024-03-15T18:08:38-04:00 MSG Private RallyPoint Member 8697512

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Having read thru this post, I have the following statements/comments to make:<br /><br />1) You do not pass a SOM Board. You either win the Board or don&#39;t win. Not being kicked out of the Board does not mean you passed the SOM Board. <br />2) It is your FLL (usually your Squad Leader) that recommends you for the Board. No 1SG worth their weight in common sense would send you to the Board without first notifying your NCO Chain. This includes your Squad Leader and Platoon Sergeant. Because you need to be counselled about attending the Promotion Board.<br />3) As for one of the 1SGs that will sit on the Board planning on kicking you out of the Board....yea, that won&#39;t fly. That Promotion Board belongs to your CSM. Kicking you out will be stepping all up in the CSM Lane. Again, no 1SG worth their weight in common sense will step into the CSM lane. All those 1SG Board Members can do is to vote Yay or Nay for Recommendation. <br />4) It is not up to the 1SGs sitting on the Board that can Bar you. Not even the CSM can Bar you. That authority lies solely with Commanders. The only thing the 1SG can do regarding the Bar is to recommend to the Commander to Bar/Not Bar you. If everyone got a Bar to Reenlist for not being recommended at their VERY FIRST Promotion Board....No one would want to go. I can&#39;t even tell you the number of Boards I have sat on where almost all the Presentees were not recommended for Promotion. None of them got Barred.<br /><br />I am thinking that you REALLY need to speak with your NCO Chain in one sitting, from your Team Leader all the way to your 1SG, and get the real scoop. Could be someone is playing what they think is a funny prank by getting you all worked up/nervous. Could be you heard wrong because the people that told you this may have heard wrong.

2024-03-15T19:36:37-04:00 2024-03-15T19:36:37-04:00 SGM Mikel Dawson 8697793

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Your whole post makes no sense. SOM board is not passed, either you are or you aren&#39;t. I will guarantee no 1SG would dare step into a CSM&#39;s lane if that 1st wants to live. Lastly, no one would ever go in front of a promotion board unless your Sqd Ldr has taken the time to prepare you, so this doesn&#39;t fly. There is no way all the 1SGs in a BN are going to do something like this if they don&#39;t want to end up in the CSM&#39;s office.

2024-03-16T01:34:39-04:00 2024-03-16T01:34:39-04:00 SPC Private RallyPoint Member 8697956

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I had used the wrong wording while saying “Passing” the SOM Board. While I cannot Pass or Fail the board I had meant to say that I did not get kicked out of attending the Board. My apologies for the confusion.

2024-03-16T08:11:40-04:00 2024-03-16T08:11:40-04:00 CSM Darieus ZaGara 8700738

<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Look, I appreciate the comments by all, they are spot on. There is no scenario whare this plays out how you led. Whoever is feeding you this crap knows less about processes than you do. The IG will not take kindly to bringing them any pathetic issue such as this. <br /><br />The person you should speak with is your squad leader, don&#39;t make idle assertions and play with he said she said, confidential source etc. just ask if you are going to the promotion board and where your award is for winning the SOM board. <br /><br />God speed.

2024-03-18T17:07:26-04:00 2024-03-18T17:07:26-04:00 2024-03-15T09:50:47-04:00