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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nSoldiers must complete the proper level of education before they can be promoted under a new Army policy that went into effect Jan. 1.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: NCO Journal<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n The third soldier affected had his promotion rescinded because of a flag that was initiated after the promotion orders were published but prior to the effective date of the promotion, according to the 15-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The soldier, from 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment, 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, received promotion orders on Feb. 24. The effective date of rank would have been March 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The specialist’s promotion order was revoked on Feb. 25 “due to a validly imposed flag for noncompliance” with the Army Body Composition Program,” according to the report. The effective date of the flag was Feb. 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There has been no change in status for that soldier, Johnson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n In the report, the investigating officer also outlined four recommendations:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Units on Fort Carson should sustain their NCO professional development training to include updates and changes to promotion and retention policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Unit leaders at the company level should validate promotions of enlisted personnel on semi-centralized promotion by-name lists prior to providing promotion orders to affected soldiers in order to prevent erroneous promotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Units should reiterate the proper priority for soldiers attending NCO educational schools as outlined by the Army, as the priority list is designed to eliminate the legacy backlog of soldiers who have not graduated from the proper levels of school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u2022\u00a0Units should conduct a full audit of all soldiers’ records. The purpose of this audit would be to identify erroneous information, especially for resident military education, that may affect proper career progression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “All recommendations in the report have been implemented, and there have been no rescinded promotions since the investigation,” Johnson told Army Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Promotions were rescinded from three NCOs; no evidence of improper activity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":78127,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":70,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[7,12,70],"tags":[],"coauthors":[505],"class_list":["post-40489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education-transition","category-news","category-your-army"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"IPZYWHBKDJFGRAVKCCMK6MA4IA","arc_canonical_url":"\/news\/your-army\/2016\/08\/04\/investigation-fort-carson-soldiers-rightly-pulled-from-promotion-list\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n