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In January, active-duty enlisted soldiers and their full-time counterparts in the Army Reserve will no longer be able to be promoted before attending schools such as the Advanced Leader Course.

The Army’s top personnel officer has extended across-the-board temporary promotions for enlisted troops who haven’t attended their professional military education, according to a policy memo ...

Army personnel evaluated the service’s more than 112,000 enlisted promotions from the ranks of sergeant through master sergeant from December 2021 through February 2024 Uribe said.

The policy continued to expand as the service shifted from promotion selection boards to the NCO evaluation board process. Since January 2022 it has been used for all NCO promotions from sergeant ...

The Army is eliminating 346 hours of online courses that soldiers were required to complete in order to be promoted, Sergeant Major of the Army announced Wednesday. Photo by Spc. Zachary Stahlberg.

Then all NCO grades began receiving temporary promotions in January 2022 after a further audit revealed excessive waits for pre-promotion training for other grades as well.