More Promotion Board Changes Likely Coming
Here are some promotion board changes that are likely coming our way:
- A recent SECDEF memo told the services to “review and revise promotion selection board precepts and convening orders, as applicable, to emphasize the importance of having senior leaders with Indo-Pacific region experiences.” Maybe going to Guam and Okinawa isn’t so bad after all.
- An article entitled “Military Leaders Reveal Plans to Make Promotion Packages Totally Anonymous” says that the DoD has plans to remove all personal identifying characteristics, such as gender and name, from promotion packets to avoid potential bias by selection boards.
- Here’s another article from Military Times about the same thing entitled “Services to consider removing all identifying information from promotion board packets.“
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