Seniors (NCO's/O's/WO's), have you ever had to challenge your rater/Senior rater (non combative)

2014-04-30T15:49:26-04:00

Focus on either the fear or disreguard for negative recourse you may have faced (i.e, OER, award, promotion, etc)

Response by MSG Jose Colon made Apr 30 at 2014 9:59 PM

2014-04-30T21:59:28-04:00

I had a Senior Rater downgrade my deployment award from Bronze to ARCOM and attempt to give me 2's on my NCOER.

My rater told me that if I disagreed, I would have to talk to my SR, to which I said sure.

I approached him with respect, and asked him to help me understand. He said that he did it because we were always at odds.

Which, most of the times was true, so I asked to point out situations where I did not do the job correctly, or exceeded standards.

One example was when he told me that I lost some pulleys. Those pulleys were welded to a flag pole when we purchased the thing, and the pole had being set on concrete. So no, I didn't loosed them.

Another one was when he emailed me to purchase some books. When he looked for the email, he realized that he emailed everyone but me, so I never found out of the instructions until he told me that day.

Bottom line, he gave me two more examples, to which I easily showed him that he was wrong.

My SR changed my NCOER and gave me 1's, but still kept my ARCOM even though I performed above and beyond.

I did not care for the award so much if they had not given ARCOMs to 6 Soldiers and 1 NCO caught drunk while in that deployment. I would have rather not to receive an award at all. But, I choose my fights.