Expert: Aaron Shifferly - 7/27/2010

Question
I am an active duty Infantry Captain, with 8yrs of service. My date of rank is 1 Jan 06. I received a referred OER as my first OER as a Captain. During that time I was in transition from being a platoon leader to BN A/S-3. My rater had me as satisfactory performance but with comments like "adequate" in the narrative, and the senior rater put "unsatisfactory performance" and "do no promote". The Second OER was during tenure as a BN A/S-3 with both rater and senior rater stating much improvement "satisfactory performance". Senior rater stating "promote after further development". BLUF the 2nd OER was marked "Qualified". My next 3 OERs 2 during deployment and the last Company Command. All were "Best Qualified" OERs. What are my chances at this upcoming Major's board for YG 02?

Answer
I talked to my BDE ADJ and she seemed to think you'd make Major during your PZ.  She did say that there was a chance, however, you wouldn't because of the potential of being overstrength in your field (we're not sure if that's going to happen to infantry or not - my branch is over though). Again, boards are tricky because they can be fickle in their decision making process so I wish you luck, but I'm pretty sure you're good to go.