Posted on Jan 25, 2021
Can your 1SG require max correspondence hours in order for your recommendation for the promotion board?
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Today, my 1sg put out a memo stating new requirements to be recommended for the promotion boards. Granted, I actually agree with most of the requirements, but there is one that I fully do not agree with. That is he is forcing all Soldiers to have max hours or he will not recommend us for the board. I already have my P status and am almost complete with BLC (graduate this week), but my Soldier was going to go to the board for February and now, he will not be. 91S only needs 40 points for promotion...
Edit: This is for secondary zone promotion, not primary.
Last Edit: I see that most higher enlisted (mostly retired) all agree with this decision. Maybe it is just a generation thing that I cannot comprehend.
Edit: This is for secondary zone promotion, not primary.
Last Edit: I see that most higher enlisted (mostly retired) all agree with this decision. Maybe it is just a generation thing that I cannot comprehend.
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Each board member gets a yes or no vote. Your 1SG is just one vote. The Soldier still has to be boarded, and if they perform well, his vote won't matter. If the Soldier performs poorly enough for his one vote to matter, then they don't need promoted anyway.
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SFC Michael Hasbun
SGT (Join to see) - there's no choice. Soldiers in their Primary zone HAVE to be boarded if they're not flagged. He doesn't get a vote on that.
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SFC Michael Hasbun
SGT (Join to see) - Ah, in that case, he's not entitled to go to the board, so the requirement makes sense. Secondary zone boarding is a reward for exemplary performance, not an entitlement. The Soldiers will go once they hit primary, they just won't go early.
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Whether or not your 1SG recommends that you go to the board or not, you are required to attend the board once you are in your primary zone. You may be waivered to attend in the secondary zone, and that's what your 1SG is saying the requirement is to get his sponsorship for a waiver to attend the board before you hit your primary zone
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SFC Kelly Fuerhoff
SGT (Join to see) - Do they make someone a better leader? No. The point people are trying to make is that in secondary zone, it's not a guarantee to go to the board. When your soldier hits primary zone, your 1SG can't stop them from being boarded. They have to let the soldier go.
Is it a stupid requirement to have for someone to get a waiver to go to the board? Sure. But there's nothing that says a 1SG can't have that as a requirement.
Is it a stupid requirement to have for someone to get a waiver to go to the board? Sure. But there's nothing that says a 1SG can't have that as a requirement.
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1SG Billye Jackson
So in todays Army if you have Time in Grade and Service you go to Board Automatically? That explains a Lot! In my Day, No One went to a Board unless I said So, and my Commanders Backed me on This.
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1SG Billye Jackson yes three years ago the Army updated its promotion board process. Soldiers have to complete their SSD/DLC before they can attend the board. If they don't, HRC bars them. They have to attend the promotion board when they hit the primary zone, but they don't have to be recommended. They don't have to wait 90 days and can keep going as long as their CDR/1SG support it. As you know, a Soldier who walks into the board without the support of the 1SG is not usually walking out with a recommendation for promotion. They have a year in the primary zone to be recommended, after that the commander is required to bar them.
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I'd also like to recommend you take as many courses as you can when you can.
As you get higher in rank in your career, certain courses will no longer be open to you. Or, your chain of command might not be supportive of pushing you through courses. Once those windows of opportunity are gone, then they are gone. It's rare to find the person with as much concern about his subordinates career success as his own.
Because where it matters, is your Soldier Record Brief. Stack that as deep as you can with as much as you can (courses, awards, assignments, civilian education). Once that lower level education gets on there early in your career it's on there. There's go going backwards in time when you are a higher rank or higher trained to get lower level courses on there. So don't pass up the easy development while you can.
The system is designed to reward those that do.
Look at the Bio's or SRB's of CSM's or COLs. They played the game from E1 and O1.
As you get higher in rank in your career, certain courses will no longer be open to you. Or, your chain of command might not be supportive of pushing you through courses. Once those windows of opportunity are gone, then they are gone. It's rare to find the person with as much concern about his subordinates career success as his own.
Because where it matters, is your Soldier Record Brief. Stack that as deep as you can with as much as you can (courses, awards, assignments, civilian education). Once that lower level education gets on there early in your career it's on there. There's go going backwards in time when you are a higher rank or higher trained to get lower level courses on there. So don't pass up the easy development while you can.
The system is designed to reward those that do.
Look at the Bio's or SRB's of CSM's or COLs. They played the game from E1 and O1.
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