What are your views on a NCO being Command list integration over a NCO being promoted through a board?

I'm not a fan of the CLI, the promotion board system exists for a reason and I'd like to see the CLI go away. That being said the CLI is here and has regulatory guidelines that must be followed; when the chain of command fails to perform the steps required to block a CLI promotion then the situation the program was designed for has occured.

I know fair number of NCOs that went to and were reccomended by a board that are outperformed by CLI promoted peers.

In the end it doesn't matter how they got thier stripes it matters what they are doing now and capturing that performance both good and bad.

He hasn't happened to me but I have work along side NCOs who have been automatic promoted and they are great NCOs. To be honest, it's really easy to pass a promotion board. If the army needs NCOs, then as soldiers we need to follow what DA dictates. Some soldiers who were automatically promoted are not necessary those who couldn't pass a board. They could have been those who have changed their MOS. I had a SPC make SGT through automatic mainly because he failed to goto the board 2 times due to S1 losing his packet and 1 time because the PLT SGT forgot to submit before going on her leave.

If a Soldier is picked up for promotion thru CLI, that MOS must be in a critical low MOS. It will not affect most of the Army. It doesn't bother me at all as long as Soldiers perform their duties assigned to them.