First sergeants and master sergeants with dates of rank of Sept. 10, 2013, and earlier, will be in the zone of consideration for the fiscal 2015 Regular Army and Active Guard and Reserve (Army Reserve) sergeant major board that meets in September.
Most soldiers selected by the Sept. 9-25 board will attend Class 67 of the 10-month resident Sergeants Major Course that begins in August 2016. NCOs who graduate from the demanding course will be frocked to sergeant major and promoted by seniority as E-9 vacancies occur in their military occupational specialty.
Soldiers enrolled in the non-resident Sergeants Major Course and the Joint Special Operations Senior Enlisted Academy will be assigned sequence numbers consistent with the Class 67 graduation date, provided they are making satisfactory progress in their studies.
In addition to the date-of-rank requirement, zone-eligible soldiers must have basic active service dates of Sept. 10, 1989-Sept, 10, 2005, and birth dates not earlier than Sept. 10, 1959. Army Reserve NCOs must have promotion eligibility basic dates of Sept. 10, 2005, and earlier.
Army policies requires that all candidates for sergeant major have credit for completion of Structured Self-Development 4.
Soldiers who meet the above-listed requirements will be in the primary zone of consideration if their DOR is June 4, 2012, or earlier. Soldiers with DOR of June 5, 2012, through Sept. 10, 2013, will be in the secondary zone.
Army policies require that soldiers who accept promotion to a senior NCO rank, such as sergeant major, will incur a three-year service obligation.
The upcoming selection board also will screen certain NCOs for possible separation or retirement under the Qualitative Management Program and Qualitative Service Program.
The QMP screening will focus on soldiers who have had derogatory information placed in their official file since their last promotion.
Actions that typically trigger a QMP referral include a court-martial, Article 15, relief for cause, letter of reprimand, adverse evaluation report and failing an NCO Education System course.
The QSP screening, a drawdown tool, will focus on master sergeants of the Active Guard and Reserve who are in nine MOSs that are overstrength or have promotion stagnation, or both.
The targeted population includes AGR master sergeants with DOR of Sept. 10, 2011, and earlier, and basic active service dates of Sept. 10, 1987, and later, who hold one of these specialties:
11Z (infantry senior sergeant), 13Z (field artillery senior sergeant), 19Z (armor senior sergeant), 25W (telecommunications operations chief), 31B (military police, 37F (psychological operations specialist), 56M (chaplain assistant), 92A (automated logistical specialist) and 92Y (unit supply specialist).
As previously announced, the Army will not conduct a QSP screening this year for Regular Army master sergeants and staff sergeants.
NCO evaluation reports submitted for the upcoming sergeant major board must be received at the Human Resources Command by Aug. 28. Code 9 complete-the-record reports must have a "thru date" of June 9, 2015.
The online "My Board File" record review system is now open for zone-eligible NCOs, and will close Sept. 2.
MBF can be accessed through a link on the Human Resources Command homepage at www.hrc.army.mil.
