Leaders Integrity While Recommending Soldiers for Promotion

Abstract

Even though promotion boards are selecting junior NCOs for promotion during deployment, some commanders integrities are questionable because they are recommending Soldiers who do not meet the promotion standards. One of the tools commanders and first sergeants are using to maintain junior Soldiers in their unit are promoting them. Soldiers can conditionally promote to junior NCOs ranks without the proper schooling. In other cases, commanders are blind folded or completely ignoring other requirements when they are signing the recommendation paperwork. This situation is affecting the readiness of our units, while deployed, and the motivation of other Soldiers. Some commanders believe this action inspires Soldiers, but they do not forecast the consequences it will create later on the battlefield.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 03, 2008
Accession Number
AD1134216

Entities

People

  • Luis A. Rosario

Organizations

  • United States Army Sergeants Major Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Battlefields
  • Behavior And Behavior Mechanisms
  • Combat Operations
  • Command And Control
  • Demographic Cohorts
  • Deployment
  • Education
  • Iraqi-War
  • Leadership
  • Military Training
  • Motivation
  • Noncommissioned Officers
  • Physical Fitness
  • Qualifications
  • Regulations
  • Standards
  • Training
  • United States
  • War
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.