Well, This Has to Be Embarassing . . . .
The title kind of says it all. From the Army Times:
Army pulls list of names for CSM, SGM key billets
The article says that the list was pulled “apparently because some of the selectees did not meet eligibility criteria needed for assignment to the top enlisted positions in one- and two-star general officer commands.”
Oops.
I don’t think I’d like to be Commander, USA Human Resources Command, right now.
Category: Big Army
I wonder how many qualified candidates were pink slipped?
Did someone make a mistake, or is it B. Hussein 0bama & Company only wanting ass-kissing yes men for those jobs?
Square in the black. I have no problem, sadly, with believing that president mom-jeans would have his clown car posse administration make it plain and simple that only THEIR folks would get selected and appointed.
Things were a bit simpler in the Corps.
Once you made Sgt Major ( E-9) your assignments were handled by the 9999 Monitor ( Im sure a lot of higher ranking commanders had influence on who they got though)
A Sgt Major would start at the lowest level of a Battalion ( or its airwing or special duty equivalent) then if you impressed the right people you’d work up to higher billets.
The Average Sgt Major Would have 3-4 Duty Assignments before retirement.
An example of one of the more successful Sgts Majors was Carlton Kent. He was the Sgt Major of an Artillery Bn, A recruit Training, A recruit Training Regiment, Marine Forces Europe, the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Then The Sgt Major of the Marine Corps.
Is this enemy action (the Pres forcing new unwritten selection criteria)or just general incompetence as seen in just about everything our Gallant leader from behind has done.
In my beloved Signal Corps, if you’re a black female with an excessive amount of staff time, you’re an automatic for CSM. Time in the schoolhouse accelerates the promotion. Such is life.
Wasn’t there some recent contraversy about the female Sgt Major who was shit-canned from the Drill Sergeant accademy because she was a seabag full of pubic hairs?