1. Walter Reed Army Institute of research
COL David W. Craft PhD D(ABMM)
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research

2. Promotion Board Update
FY10 Major AMEDD Board

3. S ELECTION BOARD Secretariat for
The following briefing was prepared by the staff officers of the Secretariat for Department of the Army Officer Selection Boards. S
ELECTION BOARD

4. Conduct all centralized active component officer selection boards
OVERVIEW
Our Mission
Conduct all centralized active component officer selection boards
Provide administrative and technical support to DA Selection Boards
Coordinate membership for DA Selection Boards
Our primary mission is to conduct all active component OFFICER selection boards. Enlisted, reserve and national guard boards are conducted elsewhere.
We provide board support comprised of active duty U.S. Army commissioned officers who are senior in their respective ranks. We also employ various civilian support personnel ranging from GS4s to GS11s.
These personnel provide the critical administrative and technical support required to operate our selection boards.
Another important mission we undertake is the coordination of DA selection board membership.

5. OVERVIEW The Sec Army’s MOI Provides MAX & MIN selection capability
Provides Special Skill Requirements
Authority for Board
Board Mission
Defines Zones of Consideration
OER Cut-off Authority
Additional Guidance from SA as required
(OER, Training Base, Reserve Component Duty)
Joint Duty Goals
EO Information
ENCLOSURES
SEC ARMY
COVER
MEMO
Of all written guidance applicable to our selection boards, the convening authority’s Memorandum of Instruction (MOI) is perhaps the most important document. It serves as that particular board’s “operations order” and contains specific guidance from the convening authority (usually the Secretary or Chief of Staff of the Army).
The most important guidance contained in the MOI is the minimum and maximum selection capability and guidance pertaining to any special skill requirements to meet the needs of the Army (Best Qualified boards). This information changes significantly between boards.
This slide lists typical information found in the MOI.

6. OVERVIEW Board Member Selection Statute (Title X) Requires:
5 or more active duty members
Senior to officers being
considered
Reserve officer representation
Joint representation
Cannot sit 2 consecutive
boards
Army Policy Requires:
Branch representation
Ethnic and female
representation
LTC (O5) or above
50% O5/O6 CSL
Commander
Both officer and enlisted board membership selection is coordinated by the DA Secretariat. This slide depicts minimum board member requirements for officer selection boards as dictated by law and Army policy. The bottom line with board membership is that membership is designed to reflect the population of officers being considered for selection.

7. Promotion Board Operations Promotion Selection Board

8. BOARD OPS Board Room Procedures and Security
No personal knowledge allowed*
All board members & a recorder must be present for board discussions, deliberations and decisions
No informal office visits (to include career managers)
Throughout the board process, the DA Secretariat constantly stresses board room security and maintaining the sanctity of the board process.
The Oath. All personnel must take the following oath or affirmation prior to sitting as a member, recorder or in an administrative support capacity:
" I , ______________________, I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will, without prejudice or partiality, and having in view both the special fitness of officers and the efficiency of the Army, perform the duties imposed upon me, and that I will not divulge the proceedings or results thereof pertaining to the selection or non-selection of individual officers except to proper authority.“
If at any time a board member violates this oath, then he or she may be relieved of their duties by the convening authority. Violations of this oath after the board’s recessed can result in strict UCMJ admonishment.
Personal knowledge (PK) is defined as a board member’s first hand knowledge of an officer competing for selection. Unless stated in the MOI, board members will NOT share PK with fellow board members, nor can it be adopted as a board criteria for voting. Board members can only apply it to their own voting criteria. For a majority of our boards, PK is NOT authorized*.
*PK is typically authorized for General Officer boards (BG, MG, etc.) and Special Mission Unit Command boards. When PK is authorized, the DA Secretariat implements it in a formal and controlled manner. Only first hand PK is allowed. Prohibited from these PK discussions are hearsay, the opinion of non board members and spouse information.
Once board members are sworn in, they will spend a majority of their time within the DA Secretariat during the duty day ( ). They are prohibited from making office calls with agencies throughout HRC until after recess and cannot reveal their membership on a board until the results have been publicly released.
No visitors allowed in the board room
All board related material & discussion stays in the board room

9. 100% Select Rate Capability Numerical Constraints
BOARD OPS
(AR )
Fully Qualified
Best Qualified
“… qualified professionally and morally to perform the duties expected of an officer in the next higher grade.”
(SELCON)
100% Select Rate Capability
Fully qualified officers who “meet specific branch, functional area or skill requirements”… to meet the Needs of the Army.
(Command & most promotion boards)
Numerical Constraints
The DA Secretariat conducts two types of selection boards: Fully and Best qualified.
Fully qualified boards have NO numerical constraints on officers to select. These boards have the capacity to select every eligible officer if a majority of the board finds them “Fully Qualified” for selection. Fully Qualified officers are those whose demonstrated potential unequivocally warrants their selection.
Best qualified boards, however, have minimum and maximum numerical constraints and requirements to select a certain number of officers with special skills (MOS, branch, etc.) to meet the needs of the Army. A majority of the boards we conduct are “best qualified” boards. 27

10. BOARD MEMBER EXPERIENCE & JUDGMENT CONVENING AUTHORITY’S MOI
BOARD OPS
Board Member Voting
BOARD MEMBER EXPERIENCE & JUDGMENT +
MOI
CONVENING AUTHORITY’S MOI +
BOARD FILE
SCORING
CRITERIA
Word Picture
1 - 6+ +
= VOTE
Once all administrative briefings and practice voting is complete and board members are comfortable with the guidance from the convening authority, board members will combine the critical elements depicted here and vote files for record.
Concept briefings on Command, School and Promotion boards can be found on this website under the “Board Briefings” tab. 24

11. BOARD OPS Phase I - In/Above Zone Voting (FQ) Phase II - BZ Voting
Phase III - Comparison & Requirements
Phase IV - Show Cause
Phase V - Paperwork

12. PHASE I Identify Fully Qualified Officers Vote Files (1 thru 6 +/-)
ID Possible Show Cause Cases
Establish OML
Establish Fully Qualified Line

13. Word Picture (IAZ) 6 +/- 5 +/- 4 +/- 3 +/- 2 +/- 1 FULLY QUALIFIED
Top Few
Superior Performer
Superior Potential
6 +/-
5 +/-
4 +/-
3 +/-
2 +/- 1
FULLY QUALIFIED
Select Ahead of Peers
Outstanding Performer
Outstanding Potential
FULLY QUALIFIED
Select with Peers
Solid Performer
Good Potential
FULLY QUALIFIED
Select if there is a Requirement
Average Performer/Potential
FULLY QUALIFIED
NOT FULLY QUALIFIED
Do not Select
Weak Performer
NOT FULLY QUALIFIED
Show Cause

14. Identify Fully Qualified Officers
PHASE I
Identify Fully Qualified Officers
FULLY
QUALIFIED
MAX Score 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15
IAZ
Population
Hard Vote
Determine “FQ” line
NOT FULLY
QUALIFIED
MIN Score 13 14 15

15. Identify Potential BZ Selects AR 600-8-29 Officer Promotions
PHASE II
Identify Potential BZ Selects
AR Officer Promotions
1-34b. Below the zone promotions are an essential part of the promotion system. They are intended to provide officers of exceptional ability an opportunity to advance quickly to more responsible positions, help retain high quality officers, and give officers an incentive to perform at their highest level.

16. Identify Potential BZ Selects
PHASE II
Identify Potential BZ Selects
DA MEMO 600-2
The Army must identify its best officers and promote them earlier to afford them sufficient remaining service to be available as our senior leaders.
Officers selected from BZ replace those who otherwise would be promoted from in and above the promotion zone; therefore, they must be clearly superior to those who would otherwise be promoted.

17. Identify Potential BZ Selects BZ MOI Guidance: MIN = 0, MAX= 2
PHASE II
Identify Potential BZ Selects
Screen Vote:
YES/NO/SC
Hard Vote:
2-6+/- 18
YES 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 4 3 2 1
OML #
SCORE 1
78+13 2
77-1 3
77-4 4
75-1 5 75 6
74+7 7
73-4 8
72+3 9
72+2 10
71-5 11
60+1 12
55+1 13 26
BZ MOI Guidance: MIN = 0, MAX= 2

18. Order of Merit List (OML) Phase III: Tentatively
NAME
RANK
SKILL
SCORE
OML #
JONES
MAJ A
60+10 1
SMITH
60+9 2
JAMES C 60 3
JOHN B 58 4
DOE D
58-1 5
SCHMOE
58-4 6
KELLY
57+9 7
GIBSON
57+8 8
JACOBS
57+7 9
STEWART
56+10 10
BARRETT
ANDERSON 54 12
HARVEY 53 13
COX
53-2 14
MICHAELS 29 15
MAYO AR 27 16
FRITZ 26 17
Requirements:
Optimum = 10
Max BZs = 2
I/AZ
Comparison Files
Phase III: Tentatively
Best Qualified Line
Phase I: Fully
Qualified Line
NOT FULLY QUALIFIED

19. Identify Best Qualified Officers Head to Head comparison
Phase III:
Identify Best Qualified Officers
BZ OML
IAZ OML 1 2 2* 1
TBQ 9 10
The lowest scoring BZ officer is compared against the highest scoring I/AZ Officer
Head to Head comparison
Fully
Qualified
Not Fully

20. Order of Merit List (OML)
The I/AZ File, “Stewart” is compared against a BZ file, “Smith” and the BZ file is found to be not clearly superior.
The I/AZ File, “Barrett” is compared against a BZ file, “Janson” and the BZ file is found to be clearly superior.

21. Order of Merit List (OML)
NAME
RANK
SKILL
SCORE
OML #
JANSON
MAJ C
JONES A
60+10 1
SMITH
60+9 2
JAMES 60 3
JOHN B 58 4
DOE D
58-1 5
SCHMOE
58-4 6
KELLY
57+9 7
GIBSON
57+8 8
JACOBS
57+7 9
STEWART
56+10 10
BARRETT 55 11
ANDERSON 54 12
HARVEY 53 13
COX
53-2 14
MICHAELS 29 15
MAYO AR 27 16
FRITZ 26 17
Requirements:
Optimum = 10
Max = 11
Max BZs = 2 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
I/AZ FILE IS DISPLACED;
OFFICER NOT RECOMMENDED FOR PROMOTION P6 P7 P8 P9
P10
P11
Phase III:
Best Qualified Line
NOT FULLY QUALIFIED
Phase I: Fully
Qualified Line

22. Processes (Tools for Consistency) Contents of Information
MAY / MAY NOT SUMMARY
Adjournment
Sec A Acts on Results
Release
Results Published
Recess (Today)
Procedures, General
Concept of ops.
Processes (Tools for Consistency)
Voting tools
Word picture
Scoring system
ASBS
File Make-Up
Contents of Information
Briefings
YOU MAY DISCUSS:
Recorder will notify member
Method of selection (ie Best or Fully Qualified)
Board composition
(representation, number of members, makeup)
Specifics of MOI (as published)
Statistics (as published)
What it took to be selected
Name of specific board served on
Comments concerning individuals or groups of individuals made during Deliberations.
Relative Standing of any individual or groups of individuals on the Order of Merit List.
Any Statistical Analysis not published with board results.
YOU MAY NEVER DISCUSS:

24. Promotion List MFR

25. Promotion List MFR

26. Promotion List MFR

27. MOI

28. MOI

29. MOI

30. MOI

31. MOI

32. MOI

33. MOI

34. MOI