{"id":37231,"date":"2013-08-25T10:37:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T14:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=37231"},"modified":"2013-08-26T08:35:59","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T12:35:59","slug":"37231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37231","title":{"rendered":"Hate to Say I Told You So . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Army has announced that more than 20 central boards meeting next year will also consider soldiers for involuntary separation, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/article\/20130824\/CAREERS\/308240005\/20-boards-2014-screen-retention\">according to the <i>Army Times<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All senior NCO promotion boards meeting next year will also serve as QSP\/QMP screening boards.\u00a0 For those unfamiliar with the difference:\u00a0 the Army&#8217;s QSP (Qualitative Service Program) is intended to reduce senior NCO populations in over-strength MOS, while the QMP (Quality Management Program) is a program that targets senior NCOs with derogatory information in their personnel files for termination of service.\u00a0 This means that every E6, E7, and E8 being screened for promotion next year will also be screened for involuntary termination or forced early retirement.<\/p>\n<p>The article doesn\u2019t specifically address officer selection boards.\u00a0 However, traditionally officer promotion boards are also used to screen records on a \u201cshow cause for retention\u201d basis.\u00a0 I\u2019m guessing that the O3, O4, O5, and O6 boards are the others not named in the article that bring the total to \u201cmore than 20\u201d.\u00a0 However, I could easily be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>This is nothing new, and this should be no surprise.\u00a0 The same thing happened during the Bush(41) and Clinton administrations.\u00a0 (I\u2019m guessing it happened after Vietnam and during the Carter administration as well, but I can\u2019t say for sure from personal knowledge.)\u00a0 Hell, some QMP boards occurred during the last couple of years of the Reagan administration.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m guessing the other three services are all doing something similar.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to the Peacetime Army.\u00a0 <em>&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">B<\/span>less <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">O<\/span>ur <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">H<\/span>ouse <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">I<\/span>t&#8217;s <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">C<\/span>hristmas\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A<\/span>lmost&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army has announced that more than 20 central boards meeting next year will also consider &hellip; <a title=\"Hate to Say I Told You So . . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=37231\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hate to Say I Told You So . . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,198,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-floggings-will-continue-until-morale-improves","category-big-army","category-disposable-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}