All soldiers who meet the date-of-rank and time-in-service criteria for this board must have credit for the Advanced Leader Course and Structured Self-Development 3 to be eligible for promotion consideration.
The specific zones of eligibility for staff sergeants are:
- Regular Army and Active Guard and Reserve – primary zone, DOR of Feb. 5, 2011, and earlier, and secondary zone, Feb. 6, 2011, through June 3, 2012.
- Regular Army only – a basic active service date of June 3, 1996, to June 3, 2008, except for members of the special operations career management fields of 18 (Special Forces), 37 (Psychological Operations) and 38 (Civil Affairs), who must have basic dates of June 3, 1996, to June 3, 2009.
- Army Reserve (AGR) only – a basic active service date of June 3, 1996, and later; a date of birth of June 3, 1957, and later, and a pay entry basic date of June 3, 2008, and earlier, except for soldiers in career fields 37 (Psychological Operations) and 38 (Civil Affairs).
As in previous years, the Army may have authorize a special promotion category for staff sergeants who are serving, or have served, as detailed recruiters, and who hold Special Qualification Identifier 4 (detailed recruiter).
Depending on U.S. Army Recruiting Command requirements at the time the board convenes, some of these SQI 4 soldiers may be offered promotion to sergeant first class on the condition they reclassify to military occupational specialty 79R, the MOS for career recruiters.
NCO Evaluation Reports and Academic Evaluation Reports submitted for this board must be received at the Human Resources Command by May 22.
Complete-the-record reports may be submitted on staff sergeants who have completed at least three months in their current duty position under the same rating official as of May 2 for the active component, and Feb. 21 for the Army Reserve.
The required thru date for Code 9 complete-the-record reports is May 2 for the active component, and Feb. 21 for the Army Reserve.
Staff sergeants who are in a zone of eligibility for this board can use the online My Board File application to review their official file. MBF will open April 3 and close May 26.
My Board File can be accessed through the self-service link on the Human Resources Command homepage at www.hrc.army.mil.
