What are some of your favorite board questions to ask?

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:26:21 -0500

What are some of your favorite board questions to ask, or ones that you
or someone else has encountered while attending a board? If you have the answer and are willing to share it, that will help share the "wealth" too.

Some
of us were discussing the question posed to us, "Without looking, state
the ribbons you are wearing, in order, from top to bottom".

I
have always liked, what is "Uniformity of Material"= matching wet
weather tops and bottoms and not mixing them with wet weather top and
Gortex bottom or vice-versa etc.

How do you properly wear 10 AAM's/ ARCOM's etc?...- AR 600-8-22-
=5 Oak Leaf clusters are represented by one Silver cluster. You are only authorized to wear 4 clusters on one ribbon. Along with the Silver Cluster, 3 more Oak Leaf Clusters representing 6-7-8 will be affixed to the original ribbon. That makes 9 total counting the ribbon. You must add another ribbon (to the wearers left) to represent the 10th "cluster/AAM". Once you receive the 11th AAM, you drop the second/ additional ribbon, and replace IT, and all 3 of the Bronze clusters with one ribbon and two Silvers Clusters. This makes 5-10 and the ribbon is 11. So on and so on. A lot of people do not know this. It took me some time to learn it, and yet it is in the reg. An old crusty CSM that worked at AAFES had to show me.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 12 at 2014 7:30 PM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:30:43 -0500

One that I have always despised was," if you are marching an element towards a cliff and you only have one step to take, what "command" would you give to halt the element and keep them from walking over the edge...

hint, it is NOT "GAS".... Why is it not gas?.. well lets think about it. What must YOU do, to yourself, before you PROPERLY give the verbal alert/physical motion for "gas" IAW NBC procedures?

Response by SFC Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 12 at 2014 7:31 PM

SFC Private RallyPoint Member — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 19:31:26 -0500

Wow, I think that telling someone to state the ribbons they are wearing is a good one! I'll bet that one trips up almost everybody!

Response by SSG (ret) William Martin made Feb 13 at 2014 7:34 AM

SSG (ret) William Martin — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 07:34:43 -0500

For the SGT board I was asked by a SFC, "If you saw a building on fire, what would you do". My answer, "I would call 911".

Response by 1SG Shane Hansen made Feb 13 at 2014 8:37 AM

1SG Shane Hansen — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:37:59 -0500

<p>I always like to ask the Soldier attending the board this question: "what is the role of Command Sergeant Major?" </p><p>You always see the CSM's ears perk up waiting for them to say something jacked up. </p>

Response by SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 13 at 2014 8:45 AM

SSG(P) Private RallyPoint Member — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:45:32 -0500

During Mock Boards, I like to ask questions of "Who is the Brigade CSM, Commander?" and "Who is the Division CSM , Commander?" I'm always caught by blank stares and the bead of sweat.

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Feb 15 at 2014 1:10 PM

MSG Private RallyPoint Member — Sat, 15 Feb 2014 13:10:17 -0500

If someone had nine years in service, how many oak leaf clusters would be on their Good Conduct Medal?

About 10 percent will correct me on it being knots.

Sometimes my fellow board members say, "You know you are asking that question wrong?" which cracks me up.

Response by SSG Richard Reilly made May 21 at 2015 11:54 AM

SSG Richard Reilly — Thu, 21 May 2015 11:54:43 -0400

I was sitting on a company practice board and I asked a easy question but the person did the classic "I don't know but I'll find out and get back to you." My response was "Ok, You got 3 minutes." The Soldier stared at me like I grew a unicorn horn then ran out the room. That and I would enjoy asking the same question like they got it wrong, and then even say "are you sure?"

But I went through boards where the members did that and then also brought me and another guy in ans pointed at me and said "you would have won, but he has been here 7 times."